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The global proportion of Jews living in Europe is as low as it was 1,000 years ago. And the future there doesn’t look bright.

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Jews’ share of the population of Europe is as low now as it was 1,000 years ago and is declining even further, according to a landmark new demographic study. The study … more

Cnaan Liphshiz | 10/22/20

Emerging from lockdown, French Jews take stock of community’s ‘enormous losses’

( JTA ) — Regulars at the synagogue in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine call its main hallway “the traffic jam.” The term, often uttered with an eye roll, refers to the bottleneck … more

Cnaan Liphshiz | 5/13/20

Passengers get payout

(JTA) – Nearly seven months after they were denied boarding in Frankfurt, a group of more than 100 Hasidic Lufthansa passengers are getting paid for their troubles. The airline is paying … more

12/2/22

Jewish demonstrators condemn BDS protests in South Africa

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (JTA) – Jewish protesters demonstrated outside a South African chain store to condemn Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement protests that they say have turned anti-Semitic. The South African Jewish Board of … more

11/7/14

Adam Perry standing in his living room in London, the United Kingdom on Dec. 11, 2020.

Jews in the United Kingdom prepare for distancing as Britain adapts to coronavirus

(JTA) — As the coronavirus forced the shutdown of many synagogues in the United States and beyond last Shabbat, many British Jews celebrated the day of rest as usual.At the time, their … more

Cnaan Liphshiz | 3/19/20

Coronavirus puts immigration of some 250 Ethiopian Jews to Israel on hold

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The immigration of some 250 Ethiopian Jews to Israel has been placed on hold because of the coronavirus. The first 50 immigrants had been scheduled to arrive on Wednesday, … more

MARCY OSTER | 3/19/20

After 50 years, VA headstone replaced to reflect vet’s Jewishness

WASHINGTON (JTA) – A World War II soldier buried in a national cemetery in Wisconsin now has a Jewish star marking his grave, in place of the Christian cross it bore for almost 50 years. Rabbi Avrohom Richter, director of Chabad of Howard … more

8/18/14

A view of the border between Lebanon, left, and Israel near the village of Kfar Kila, Feb. 7, 2018.

Netanyahu: Hezbollah tunnels a ‘concrete threat’

JERUSALEM (JTA) – Hezbollah is building tunnels “with direct support and funding from Iran” in an effort to capture northern Israel’s Galilee region, Prime Minister … more

12/6/18

Israel’s UN envoy says he’ll wear Nazi yellow star until other countries condemn Hamas

(JTA) — Israel’s envoy to the United Nations,took an unusual step on Monday while exhorting the international body to condemn Hamas, the terrorist group that his country is trying to … more

Philissa Cramer | 10/31/23

Left to right: Anne Franklin, Rabbi Wayne Franklin, Betsalel Laurent Elouna and Professor William Miles at the Franklins’ home (along with their standard poodle, Ziggy).

Founder and leader of Cameroon synagogue visits Rhode Island

In late August and early September, Betsalel Laurent Elouna, founder and leader of Beith Bnei Yeshouroun synagogue in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, visited Providence, staying for a week at the home of Rabbi Wayne and Anne Franklin. more

SHAI AFSAI | 10/2/19