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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.

Poland

Polish far-right protests against restitution of Jewish property

Polish far-right supporters protested against a US law that calls for the restitution of Jewish property.

USA

Synagogue shooting: Rabbi describes 'heart-wrenching' scene

A worshipper at the California synagogue where a gunman opened fire, killing one woman, has told how he confronted the teenage shooter.

Poland

Polish town slammed over 'atrocious revival of medieval anti-Semitism'

A town in Poland has been criticised after locals beat and burned a Judas effigy that was made to look like a stereotypical Orthodox Jew.

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Jewish memorial stone vandalised in Strasbourg

The stone used to lie in a synagogue at the same location which the Nazis burnt down in 1940.

Belarus

Mass grave found in Belarus

Building workers in Belarus have uncovered the remains of almost 800 bodies in a mass grave at a site of a former Jewish ghetto

France

What is anti-semitism and why is it spreading in Europe?

"Anti-Semitism remains pervasive across the EU and has become disturbingly normalised"

United Kingdom

How Brexit is pushing British Jews to apply for German citizenship

Seventy years on from the Holocaust, Brexit is pushing thousands of British Jews to seek a German passport.

Europe News

Lawyers: Defendant in Brussels terror attack should be acquitted

No DNA of Mehdi Nemmouche found on door of Jewish Museum or revolver, they claim

Germany

Berlin hosts Holocaust Survivors Night, recognising the 400,000 survivors still alive

It comes as concerns grow over the rise of anti-semitism in Germany and around Europe.

Netherlands

Holocaust survivors to be compensated by Dutch wartime train operator

More than 100,000 Dutch Jews were killed during the Second World War.

World News

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Germany

Kippa solidarity in Germany

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

Germany

Berlin march against anti-semitism: 4 questions answered

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