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Tu Bishvat: What is the Jewish holiday for trees?

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

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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.

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.

Hungary

Volunteers restore one of the world's largest Jewish cemeteries

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

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Ukraine

Remembering Babi Yar - the little-known 'Holocaust of bullets'

As the 80th anniversary of Babi Yar approaches, some urge Ukraine to do more to commemorate what became known as the "Holocaust of bullets".

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Jerusalem's Ultra-Orthodox Jews celebrate Passover

Jerusalem's Ultra-Orthodox Jews celebrate Passover

Germany

Is anti-Semitism on the rise in Germany among COVID-denial movements?

Groups that would normally have nothing to do with each other are uniting in Covid-denying movements: right-wing groups, left-wing extremists, Islamist groups. And 'anti-Semitism is acting as a binder.'

Germany

Student assaulted outside Hamburg synagogue in 'anti-Semitic attack'

A Jewish student was "seriously injured" on Sunday outside a synagogue in Hamburg, northern Germany, in what police have described as "anti-Semitic motivated attack".

Europe News

Belgian Jews fear the scaling back of counter-terror patrols

Belgium is considering winding down soldiers' counter-terror patrols. At the height of the terror threat, thousands of soldiers paced the streets. Authorities are weighing up the cost of such security measures against the concerns over future threats.

USA

Hanukkah stabbing suspect pleads not guilty to attempted murder

Grafton E. Thomas has been charged with five counts of attempted murder and one of burgalry.

Belgium

UNESCO wipes Belgian festival from heritage list over 'racist floats'

The decision was prompted by the presence of caricatured floats of Orthodox Jews with hooked noses at the festival. The city's mayor said organisers were neither racist nor anti-Semitic.

France

France opens anti-hate office after Jewish graves desecrated

The office will coordinate police and judicial work to hold responsible those who commit anti-semitic, islamophobic, and anti-christian hate crimes, France's interior minister Christophe Castaner said.

Greece

Doctor and independent Moses Elisaf is Greece's first Jewish mayor

Doctor, academic and independent politician Moses Elisaf is the newly-elected Mayor of Ioannina in north-west Greece and the country's first Jewish mayor

World News

Rabbis in Europe request addition of kippah-wearing rabbi

In a letter sent to the Unicode Consortium — a non-profit that approves new emojis — the Conference of European Rabbis said a fight against anti-semitism "starts with the small things", namely a new emoji that could represent the Jewish faith.

World

Hebron: a city divided between Palestinians and Israeli settlers

Hebron, high in the mountains of the West Bank, is a Palestinian City which has been split for over 20 years. The proximity between the Israeli and the Palestinian communities create daily struggles. Euronews' reporter Monica Pinna went there to find out more.

Germany

Germany encourages population to wear kippahs in solidarity with Jews

Germany's government is encouraging its population to wear kippahs, the skullcaps worn by Jews, to stand in solidarity with its Jewish population following a spike in anti-Semitic incidents

USA

Jewish leaders urge 'wake-up call' after latest synagogue attack

Saturday's attack came six months after a man fatally shot 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh — the deadliest attack against Jews in American history.

Belgium

Frenchman found guilty of killing four people at Jewish museum in 2014

A Belgian court has convicted French citizen Mehdi Nemmouche of “terrorist murder” for the shooting deaths of four people at a Jewish museum in Brussels in 2014.

Belgium

Belgian carnival float depicting Jewish stereotypes criticised

A carnival float at a parade in Belgium has caused outrage for displaying giant caricatures of Jews sitting on bags of money.

France

Strasbourg's vandalised Jewish Memorial sparks indignation

French authorities have opened an investigation on Saturday (March 2), into the vandalisation of a memorial stone marking the site of Strasbourg's Old Synagogue, which was destroyed by the Nazis during World War Two.