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TEL AVIV – The Malaysian prime minister resumed his long-standing antisemitic rhetoric, describing Jews as “hook-nosed” and denying the Holocaust during an interview with the BBC.

TEL AVIV – A man fell off of a fourth floor balcony on on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Succoth but the sukkah of a neighbour broke the fall and likely saved his life, Jerusalem paramedics said. 

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State University has received a multimillion-dollar gift for the East Lansing school’s Jewish Studies program.

UK Labour is being defined as the “nasty party” of British politics by voters fed up with its rampant anti-Semitism, according to the latest polling.

Police arrested five Muslim activists on the Temple Mount on Tuesday and accused them of trying to obstruct a group of Jewish visitors touring the flashpoint Jerusalem holy site.

Israel “created” the anti-Semitism row engulfing the UK Labour Party, a trade union leader has been recorded suggesting.

A crushing majority of UK Jews believe Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is anti-Semitic and the party he leads fosters a profound hatred of Jews, according to a poll conducted by the Jewish Chronicle.

US President Donald Trump spoke once again of his “personal connection” to Judaism on Thursday, as he held a telephone call with American Jewish leaders to mark Rosh Hashanah — the Jewish New Year which begins on Sunday night.

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s National Museum said Wednesday that centuries-old Torah scrolls, considered to be some of Judaism’s oldest documents, had been moved before a massive fire ravaged the place and gutted much of the largest collections of national history artifacts in Latin America.

The UK Labour Party agreed on Tuesday to adopt the full international definition of anti-Semitism in an effort to lay months of public rows and ugly accusations to rest. For now, anyway.

LVIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian city of Lviv, once a major center of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the annihilation of the city’s Jewish population by Nazi Germany and honoring those working today to remember and preserve what they can of that vanished world.

A petition demanding UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn resign over the party’s inability to deal with anti-Semitism claims is gathering strength, with over 10,000 signatures added in just 48-hours.

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Jews were still at risk even decades after the Holocaust, as he wrapped up a groundbreaking visit to Lithuania, a Baltic state once home to his forefathers.

Len McCluskey, leader of the Unite trade union, entered Labour’s anti-Semitism row with an extraordinary attack on the party leader’s critics, accusing them of exploiting the scandal to weaken him.

The term anti-Semitism is an entirely false construct designed to shield Jews from criticism for any wrongdoing, making them the only race that is beyond reproach, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Monday.

Anti-Semitic incidents in Germany have risen by 10 percent over the course of the first half of 2018 when compared with the same period in 2017, latest figures reveal.

BERLIN — Germany’s jailed “Nazi grandma” Ursula Haverbeck, 89, on Friday lost a challenge before the country’s highest court, which reaffirmed that constitutional free speech guarantees do not cover Holocaust denial.

A key ally of UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been recorded berating Jewish “Trump fanatics” for inventing claims of anti-Semitism now swamping the hard-left party.

A member of the Scottish Labour Party has accused the UK’s three main Jewish newspapers of being agents in the pay of Mossad, the Israeli secret security agency.

LUCKAU, Germany — Sophie Steiert opens a bag of kosher gummy bears and offers them to 20 other German teenagers seated around her in their high school classroom.

The UK’s three main Jewish newspapers have joined as one to publish the same front page, damning Jeremy Corbyn and the left-wing Labour Party as posing an  “existential threat to Jewish life.”

Asher Shalom, the immigrant owner of a business who  employs many immigrants, says he cannot understand why his recently opened café was protested ostensibly over his support for President Trump and White House immigration policies.

NEW YORK — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says while he finds Holocaust denial “deeply offensive,” he doesn’t believe that such content should be banned from Facebook.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian leadership has condemned a Jewish women’s annual march marking the fast day of Tisha B’Av and the destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem as a provocation aimed at “Judaizing” the capital, and labeling it “a rebellion against international legitimacy.”

An Islamist migrant who police allege savagely murdered a 65-year-old Jewish woman in Paris is considered unfit to stand trial, according to a psychiatric evaluation.

The UK Labour Party’s inability to engage with its own Jewish membership has again been thrown into the open as a party affiliate threatens to sue it over a new, softer definition of anti-Semitism.

Labour MP Naz Shah has been made a shadow equalities minister two years after admitting her “ignorance” about discrimination against Jews during a row over anti-Semitism in the party.

A sharp rise in attacks on Jewish students in the German school system has prompted authorities to recruit 170 anti-bullying experts to combat the problem.

Geneva-based UN Watch has accused global agencies charged with combating racism of failing to act against hatred, incitement and violence against Jews.

Ten people have been detained by German police in the wake of an alleged anti-Semitic attack in a Berlin park, with local media reporting all involved are Syrian migrants.

The UK Labour Party’s new anti-Semitism code of conduct has been labelled “toothless” by angry campaigners and community groups.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority has slammed the ongoing Jerusalem Festival of Light as an Israeli attempt to “Judaize” the city.

The first female tank commanders have finished their Armored Corps training in Israel and a British-born graduate is amongst them.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told Britain’s Prince William on Wednesday that the Palestinian leadership is committed to peace with Israel.

A district court in Sweden found three men guilty of attempted arson against the Jewish synagogue in Sweden’s second-largest city of Gothenburg last year.

TEL AVIV – In an interview with Israel’s Army Radio Monday, former Senator Joe Lieberman discussed the growing rift between Israel and progressive Jewry in the U.S., as well as expressing his pride in repealing the U.S. Army’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for homosexual soldiers, and asserting his belief that a Jew could one day become president of the United States.