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DURACH, Germany — Andrzej Sitkowski was 15 years old when his mother told him that she had been asked by a neighbor to hide a little Jewish girl from the Nazis at their home.

In yet more evidence disproving an initial FBI claim that Malik Faisal Akram’s decision to take worshipers at a synagogue hostage at gunpoint was “not specifically targeting” the Jewish community, a leaked tape reveals the Islamist terrorist ranting to his family about “the f***ing Jews” hours before he was shot.

The NYPD arrested and charged a suspect for an antisemitic attack on a Jewish man who was wearing a sweatshirt with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) symbol in Brooklyn.

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas recently claimed that in 1948, world powers including the U.S. and UK, conspired in “the theft of the [Palestinian] homeland” to gift to the Jews as part of an “international colonialist” effort, a report released by a media watchdog said on Tuesday.

Mohammad was the most popular name overall given to newborns in Israel in 2020, Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reported this week.

Four-thousand people immigrated to Israel from the United States in 2021, marking a nearly 50-year high, government statistics showed Wednesday.

JERUSALEM  — Several dozen Holocaust survivors marked the third night of Hanukkah on Tuesday with a menorah-lighting ceremony at Jerusalem’s Western Wall that paid tribute to them and the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis.

A Palestinian gunman from the Hamas terror group opened fire by the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Sunday, killing one and injuring another four, two of whom are in serious condition.

Nearly a quarter of Jewish community leaders in Europe said they were considering emigrating, with many saying they were increasingly concerned about antisemitism, a new poll found.

A watercolor painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh that was seized by Nazis has sold at auction for $35.86 million, setting a new record for the medium, Christie’s auction house announced.

A Jewish newlywed woman from Brooklyn discovered her new husband is apparently a Palestinian-Lebanese Muslim who had been posing as a Jew, only two weeks after the couple tied the knot.

A French court on Wednesday fined seven people for a torrent of anti-Semitic abuse on social media aimed at the runner-up of the latest Miss France contest.

The man known as the last Jew of Kabul could soon be heading to Israel, after agreeing to grant his estranged wife a religious divorce in a Zoom call — a precondition for smooth entry to the Holy Land.

Pope Francis called for universal condemnation of anti-Semitism Monday evening in an address to Slovakian Jews gathered in Bratislava’s Rybné námestie Square.

Afghanistan’s last remaining Jew, 62-year-old Zebulon Simantov, has finally fled the country after years of withstanding threats from the Taliban.

Despite only accounting for less than two percent of the population, American Jews are the target of some 58 percent of all religiously motivated attacks in the U.S., newly released FBI statistics show.

The spokesman for the Taliban said he was tricked into giving an interview with Israel’s public broadcaster this week, and had never agreed to talk with an Israeli journalist.

The ECHR has ruled against the family of a severely ill two-year-old Jewish girl, holding that doctors are allowed to withdraw treatment.

The Jewish founders of Ben & Jerry’s said they “unequivocally support” the ice cream maker’s move to boycott Israeli settlements in the West Bank, calling it “one of the most important decisions the company has made in its 43-year history.”

Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI) came under fire after condemning Israel’s decision to demolish the home of a Palestinian terrorist while not mentioning he murdered a teenager and critically wounded two others.

Archaeologists in Israel have unveiled a newly uncovered building near the Western Wall from the Second Temple period.

A Jewish man was subjected to abuse and death threats twice within the space of an hour on London’s public transportation, amid a major rise in antisemitic incidents in the UK.

Record numbers of antisemitic incidents have been recorded in the UK since last month’s rocket attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists, figures released by the Community Security Trust (CST) reveal.

Antisemitism in the U.S. is much worse than it appears and is on the rise because of “woke culture,” intersectionality and parallels with the Black Lives Matter movement, the heads of a major U.S. Jewish group said this week.

The sharp rise in antisemitism that convulsed cities in the U.S. and around the world last month was predicated on the lie Israel’s actions were those of an aggressor, Aaron Klein, a senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outlined Monday.

Aaron Keyak, Jewish Engagement Director at Biden for President, said Friday, “take off your kippah (head covering) and hide your magen david (star of David)” if you fear for your life as a Jew. 

Every time I write something like the following, it feels silly and obvious, but sometimes the silly and obvious still must be said: Imagine the media landscape today if roving bands of white supremacists were flying the confederate flag out of their vehicles and stopping only to assault Jews.

An armed citizen in Miami, Florida, intervened and saved a Jewish family that was allegedly under attack after leaving their synagogue.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday dismissed antisemitism at all levels in society, declaring British Jews should be able to live free of “shameful racism.”

Antisemitic conspiracy theories in which Jews are blamed for the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and the resultant economic crisis have “skyrocketed” over the past year, a new report revealed.

The last three Jewish families in Yemen were deported by the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, leaving only four elderly Jews from what was once a community that was several thousand-strong, the London-based Saudi daily Asharq Al-Awsat reported over the weekend.

Israel celebrated Passover with large family gatherings as coronavirus infections continued their downward spiral as the country’s aggressive vaccination program began paying dividends.

ROME — The Iraqi government prevented Jews from attending events during Pope Francis’s historic visit to the country, the Jerusalem Post contends.

Israel celebrated the Jewish holiday of Purim over the weekend amid merriment, illegal costume parties and soaring infections. Undeterred by the public transport ban, thousands of revelers descended on Jerusalem by foot on Sunday.

ROME — The World Jewish Congress (WJC) on Sunday hailed Pope Francis’ “tremendous compassion” after he visited a Holocaust survivor in Rome, praising his “moral integrity and sense of history”.

BERLIN — A German classical music foundation says it has found the rightful heirs of a Jewish woman who was forced by the Nazis to sell two scores by composer Franz Liszt before being deported to a concentration camp.