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80 years on - Remembering the 'Night of Broken Glass'

Germany and Austria leaders mark the 80th anniversary of the Kristallnacht, the ‘night of broken glass’ at a Berlin Synagogue

09/11/2018

France

Anti-semitism attacks 'rise in France'

Hate crimes against France's Jewish community, Europe's biggest, rose by 69% in 2018 after two years of falls. The statistics have moved the French prime minister to set up special measures to tackle the problem.

09/11/2018

World News

Pope warning on anti-Semitism

At a service to commemorate Lithuania's devastated Jewish community under the Nazis the Pope has spoken of the dangers of a rebirth of anti-Semitism

23/09/2018

Israel

Israel's public broadcaster apologises for playing music by Wagner

Wagner, whose operas are hailed as musical masterpieces, was Adolf Hitler’s favourite composer, with Nazi followers embracing his anti-Semitic writings and ideology.

03/09/2018

Cult

Children who escaped Hitler's death camps

A new exhibition the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust tells the story of Jewish children who managed to escape Hitler's death camp but at a very high price

28/08/2018

Israel

Critics say new nationality law will make Israel an apartheid state

Thousands of Israel's minority Druze community held a rally in Tel Aviv to protest against a new nationality law that they say will sideline non-Jewish Israelis

05/08/2018

Cinema

Italian National Hero made into an animation

Cyclist Gino Bartali helped around 800 Jews escape the holocaust because he smuggled fake documents in the frame of his bike. He pretended to be training but was carrying messages and photographs for passports to the Italian Resistance

27/07/2018

Germany

Kippa solidarity in Germany

Demonstrations follow viral video of an attack on a man wearing the Jewish cap

26/04/2018

Germany

Berlin march against anti-semitism: 4 questions answered

People in Berlin will be handed Jewish headgear at an event today. Here's why:

25/04/2018

France

Paris police say murder of a Jewish woman in Paris was a hate crime

Mireille Knoll's burned and stabbed body was found three days ago in her apartment in the eleventh arrondissement. Jewish communities have reacted strongly to her murder.

27/03/2018

United Kingdom

UK: anti-Semitic incidents at 'all-time high'

CST has released figures suggesting 2017 was a record year for anti-Semitic incidents in the UK.

01/02/2018

Israel

Female journalists complain of gender segregation at Western Wall

Women have been voicing their outrage on social media under the hashtag #PenceFence.

23/01/2018

USA

Muslims to beocme second-largest religious group in US

The Muslim population in the US is growing at a rate of around 100,000 per year

05/01/2018

Sweden

Three arrested in firebomb attack on Swedish synagogue

Local media report a group of masked men hurled Molotov cocktails at the building in Gothenburg on Saturday night.

10/12/2017