Jewish World

When your life moves between extremes, what helps you find your own point of balance again?

Jewish leaders urged parties to keep Die Linke out of government, citing antisemitism; its Berlin chairwoman rejected the accusations.

We have become guilty

Every year, when we reach the Parasha Vezot Habracha, I have the feeling that this is actually not an ending at all.

“We have seen over the past three years how quickly people take criticism against Israel to attack and intimidate the Jewish community of Canada,” Iddo Moed, Israeli ambassador to Canada, told JNS.

Olivér Várhelyi said Europe cannot claim Jewish life belongs while making religious practice “increasingly difficult, if not impossible.”

This year, the two weekly portions Nitzavim and Vayeilech are read together. And it is precisely this combination that has made something clear to me about the way we live our lives.

The data was published amid allegations by Israel that Madrid’s anti-Israeli rhetoric and policies were fomenting Jew hatred.

Rabbi Shlomó Köves warned that staging political protests close to Jewish events crossed a red line, turning anti-Israel activism into direct hostility against local Jews.