Tunisian Jews scale back annual pilgrimage to ancient synagogue because of security concerns

Jewish Tunisians who organize an annual pilgrimage to one of the world’s oldest synagogues are planning a scaled-down event next month

Israelis grapple with how to celebrate Passover, a holiday about freedom, while many remain captive

Jews around the world will soon celebrate Passover, recounting the biblical story of their exodus from Egypt after hundreds of years of slavery

Eid prayers held in a historic former mosque in northern Greece for the first time in 100 years

A building in the Greek city of Thessaloniki that was originally erected for a community of Jewish converts to Islam is being used for mass prayers during the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday

Jerusalem marks festive holiday of Purim in shadow of war

Tens of thousands of people have celebrated the Jewish holiday of Purim in Jerusalem, though the traditionally boisterous celebrations have been muted this year by the Israel-Hamas war

Holocaust survivors will mark Hanukkah amid worries over war in Israel, global rise of antisemitism

Holocaust survivors from around the globe will mark the start of the fifth day of Hanukkah together with a virtual ceremony as worries grow among Jews worldwide about the Israel-Hamas war and a spike of antisemitism in Europe, the United States...

Macron denies disrespecting secularism after Hanukkah ritual at Élysée Palace

French President Emmanuel Macron felt compelled Friday to justify allowing a Jewish ritual at the Élysée Palace after critics accused him of failing to respect France’s secular traditions.

Austria sees rise in anti-Semitic attacks against backdrop of Israel-Hamas war

A sharp rise in anti-Semitic attacks in Austria over the past few weeks have sparked concerns of a spillover of the Israel-Hamas war in the central European nation.

It’s time to take a stand for civilisation

We must support of British Jews and their right to live their lives in this country without fear. Otherwise, barbarism beckons

This unholy axis of Iranian thugs and Marxist psychopaths is an enemy of Muslims too

Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are vital barriers to the spread of toxic narratives seizing both the West and the East

Tens of thousands protest after Muslim prayers across Mideast over Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

Tens of thousands of Muslims are demonstrating across the Middle East in support of the Palestinians and to protest against the Israeli airstrikes pounding the Gaza Strip

Vatican defends wartime Pope Pius XII as conference honors Israeli victims of Hamas incursion

The Vatican secretary of state has strongly defended World War II-era Pope Pius XII as a friend of the Jews

Army fire kills a 14-year-old, Palestinians say, as an Israeli minister visits flashpoint mosque

Palestinian health officials say Israeli military fire killed a 14-year-old Palestinian in the occupied West Bank

France fast-tracks Jewish claims on artwork stolen during WWII

France on Thursday passed a law making it easier to return the works of art seized by Nazi Germany which ended up in French museums to their Jewish owners.

Jews, Muslims come together at Srebrenica massacre anniversary

Jews and Muslims have come together in Bosnia on the eve of the 28th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust

Muslims at Hajj pilgrimage brave intense heat to cast stones at pillars representing the devil

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims are braving intense heat to perform the symbolic stoning of the devil during the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia

As a lengthy legal battle ends, a Palestinian family braces for eviction from Jerusalem home

Few places in Jerusalem speak of the larger conflict being waged over the capital more than the apartment of 68-year-old Nora Ghaith-Sub Laban

Sisters tell Australia court that abuse by Jewish school principal broke trust, painful to remember

Two sisters have told an Australian court that being sexually abused by their Jewish school's principal broke their ability to trust forever and is painful to remember

Germany saw 2,480 antisemitic incidents in 2022, monitoring group says

A group tracking antisemitism in Germany says it has documented 2,480 incidents in the country last year — just under seven incidents per day on average

Germany's biggest Jewish educational and cultural complex since the Holocaust to open in Berlin

Germany’s biggest Jewish educational and cultural complex since the Holocaust is set to open in Berlin, five years after the groundbreaking

German curator on a mission to return silver heirlooms stolen from Jewish families by the Nazis

A German museum curator has made it his mission to return silver objects stolen by the Nazis to Jewish families around the globe nearly

German commission backs restitution of Kandinsky painting owned by Bavarian bank to Jewish heirs

An independent German commission is recommending the restitution of a painting by Wassily Kandinsky currently owned by the Bavarian state bank to the heirs of a Jewish family that the artwork originally belonged to