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Hanukkah begins on Christmas Day in rare calendar convergence

This year, Hanukkah and Christmas will share a special connection as the Jewish Festival of Lights begins on 25 December, marking only the fifth time since 1900 that the two holidays have overlapped.

23/12/2024

Germany

US fines Lufthansa €3.6m over treatment of Jewish passengers

The group of 128 passengers were denied boarding on a flight in Frankfurt in 2022 after flying to Germany from New York.

16/10/2024

Europe News

Antisemitic incidents in Germany almost double, report says

The RIAS group said it recorded 4,782 antisemitic incidents in 2023, compared with 2,616 the year before.

25/06/2024

France

Antisemitic acts rise in Belgium and France amid Gaza conflicts

Many European countries have registered a rise in reported antisemitic acts and rhetoric since the outbreak of the war. Reports show physical and verbal attacks towards Jewish people have risen sharply in the western European nations since the Israel-Hamas war began back in October.

25/01/2024

Culture news

US returns Egon Schiele art looted by Nazis to owner's heirs

The US has returned seven artworks by famous Austrian expressionist painter Egon Schiele to the heirs of a Jewish cabaret star who owned them before he was killed by the Nazis in 1941.

21/09/2023

Poland

Vatican beatifies Polish family executed by Nazis in World War II

Representatives for the Vatican held an unprecedented beatification of the Polish family of 9 who were killed for hiding Jews in 1944.

10/09/2023

Culture news

University of Leeds settles antisemitism lawsuit with graduate

The University of Leeds in the UK has settled for an undisclosed sum a lawsuit which alleged that several professors purposefully gave a Jewish sociology student a failing grade for a paper which did not blame Israel for the crimes of Hamas against Palestinians.

17/03/2023

Germany

Germany remembers the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp

In Germany's parliament, politicians remembered the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by focusing on Holocaust victims targeted on the grounds of their sexuality.

27/01/2023

Culture news

Hear the Holocaust survivors sharing stories to keep the horrors alive

A dwindling number of people are alive to recount the horrors of Nazis concentration camps. Euronews Culture met with some survivors who have dedicated their lives to making sure their voices and stories are heard to ensure their past is never forgotten.

27/01/2023

Ukraine

'Never again': Ukraine's Jewish community marks Holocaust Memorial Day

“I never had to run away from Ukrainians, but I helped my entire community flee Ukraine because of Russian bombs.”

27/01/2023

Culture news

The mythical creatures of Europe: The Golem

For our countdown to Halloween, we explore the mythical creatures of Europe. Today: Czechia and the Golem.

27/10/2022

Culture news

Jewish 'Lost Mural' is moved and restored to former glory

A mural that was painted in a Vermont synagogue more than 100 years ago by a Lithuanian immigrant — and hidden behind a wall for years— has been termed a rare piece of art and has been painstakingly moved and restored.

16/08/2022

Italy

'Life that was': Experts restore historic synagogues in Venice ghetto

Venice’s ghetto dates from 1516 when the republic forced the city's Jewish residents into isolation in the district where the old foundries, or “geti”, had been located.

12/06/2022

My Europe Series

How past horrors are pushing Polish Jews to help fleeing Ukrainians

“I didn’t know how many people, I didn’t know who was arriving -- I just said yes,” said Alina Sobczak.

28/03/2022

Germany

German dictionary updates definition of 'Jew' after outcry

The Duden dictionary has stated that the word could occasionally be perceived as discriminatory.

16/02/2022

Culture news

Whoopi Goldberg suspended after controversial Holocaust remarks

The presenter claimed that the Holocaust was "not about race" during a conversation on the banning of a book about Nazi death camps on her show, The View.

02/02/2022

Culture news

Tu Bishvat: What is the Jewish holiday for trees?

Get your seder plates and gardening gear ready: it's time to celebrate Tu Bishvat.

16/01/2022

Culture news

Giant Jewish menorah lights up the start of Hanukkah in Berlin

Hundreds of people in Berlin celebrated the start of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah on Sunday by lighting a giant menorah in front of the Brandenburg Gate.

29/11/2021

World News

Holocaust survivor-author Eddie Jaku dies in Sydney aged 101

“Eddie Jaku was a beacon of light and hope for not only our community, but the world,” New South Wales state Jewish Board of Deputies chief executive officer Darren Bark said in a statement.

12/10/2021

Hungary

Volunteers restore one of the world's largest Jewish cemeteries

Nature has taken over much of the 130-year-old site.

27/07/2021