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Byline: Annabelle Timsit Eight decades since Nazis killed millions of Jews in the Holocaust, only about 245,000 of those who survived are still alive to tell the tale. After the [...]

Byline: Claire Parker More than half a million Jewish residents now live in the West Bank - a record number that owes to the ongoing expansion of Israeli settlements in [...]

NEW YORK -- The following information was released by the American Jewish Committee (AJC): Jewish diners at a sushi restaurant in Los Angeles were brutally beaten by a mob chanting [...]

Byline: Harriet Sherwood Europe has lost almost 60% of its Jewish population over the past 50 years, mainly as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union which saw [...]

Brussels: European Jewish Congress has issued the following news release: Coronavirus lockdowns last year shifted some anti-Semitic hatred online, where conspiracy theories blaming Jews for the pandemic's medical and economic [...]

Byline: Avi Mayer, Special to USA TODAY Last Oct. 27, millions across America and around the world gasped in horror at the news that a shooting during Shabbat services at [...]

Holocaust survivors had their home ransacked and sprayed with graffiti in one of a record number of antisemitic incidents reported in the UK. The Community Security Trust (CST) said the [...]

Byline: Jon Henley European affairs correspondentAntisemitism is rising sharply across Europe, experts have said, as France reported a 74% increase in the number of offences against Jews last year and [...]

Fanaticism, particularly when garbed in the clothing of myopic fundamentalism, rarely evokes in us a sympathetic bent. How could it, given its association with an uncontrollable zeal and violence for [...]

Byline: JAMES GLANZ and IRIT PAZNER GARSHOWITZ GIVATAYIM, Israel -- During a boisterous Passover Seder with her extended family, Sabiha Ziluf, 75, paused and said softly that she could still [...]

Byline: Natasha Lehrer Rough-hewn and reminiscent of one of Giacometti's lonely figures, the weathered bronze soldier in the middle of a tiny, shady square in the heart of Paris stands [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- The following information was released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL): The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed the release of the 2014 FBI Hate Crime Statistics Act [...]

Tallinn: Government of the Republic of Estonia has issued the following news release: New figures show that the global Jewish population has risen to almost the same size as it [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- The following information was released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL): The total number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States increased by 21 percent in 2014 [...]

Byline: Anne Gearan WASHINGTON - Roughly three-quarters of Jewish settlers in the West Bank would be included in redrawn Israeli borders envisioned under U.S.-backed peace negotiations, the lead U.S. envoy [...]

Borough Park in Brooklyn, with its preponderance of Orthodox synagogues and kosher restaurants, is the most Jewish area in the New York City region, with 78 percent of households there [...]

from The Guardian The number of Jewish settlers in the West Bank grew by more than 15,000 in the past year to reach a total in the occupied territories that [...]

NEW YORK, April 1, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The total number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States fell by 19 percent in 2013, continuing a decade-long downward slide and marking [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- The following information was released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL): The total number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States fell by 19 percent in 2013, [...]

A clear-cut way to define a synagogue is by the movement of Judaism that it belongs to. Is it Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, or Reconstructionist? Each of these denominations means a [...]

Byline: Robert Tait Jerusalem The new statistics mean Israel has become the world's biggest Jewish population centre, for the first time surpassing the United States, which has around 5.5 million [...]

Increasing numbers of French Jews are leaving for Israel, citing dim economic prospects and a sense of being caught between an increasingly influential far right and militant Islam. More than [...]

After 3 years of declining educational tourism in Israel; 3,000 youths will arrive by this summer; 1,200 have already arrived.. The Jewish Agency is organizing a Happening for the visitors [...]

'Prospecting the Jewish Future: Population Projections, 2000-2080'from the American Jewish Year Book. $34. For more information, call The Amen can Jewish Committee at (212) 751-4000. Jewish-Americans are in the spotlight [...]

This is the second of two columns on why Israel should keep the West Bank. The first ran March 4. Throughout the history of modern Israel, cynics have touted the [...]

It's a much repeated storyline: Higher intermarriage rates are leading to a shrinking Jewish population. A new Brandeis study finds that the number of Jews in the United States has [...]

Irene Rosenfeld, the chief executive officer of Kraft Foods, was ranked No. 2 in the Forbes magazine list of the world's 100 most powerful women, following first lady Michelle Obama. [...]

Only 6 percent of Jews in Israel say they observe no Jewish traditions, according to an annual Central Bureau of Statistics social poll. The 2009 topic was 'Jewish tradition observances [...]

A Brandeis study found that only 10 percent of Jewish families send children to Jewish camps. What about your family? Personally have. 30% Children have or are enrolled. 18% Both [...]

A Brandeis study found that only 10 percent of Jewish families send children to Jewish camps. What about your family? Personall have. 30% Children have or are enrolled. 18% Both [...]

Life was good for the Jews of Persia living under the protection and generosity of Shah Reza Pahlavi, just as it had been under the previous ruler, and the ruler [...]

A study released by Hebrew University this week reports the world Jewish population has grown by 70,000 people this year. But the study found that rapid growth in Israel, to [...]