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TEL AVIV – The Lithuanian Jewish community on Tuesday announced that it was shuttering its doors, and that of Vilnius’s only synagogue, in the face of antisemitic threats and incitement by right-wing nationalists. 

Antisemitic incidents have spiked across the UK over the first six month of this year,  a report released Thursday revealed.

Republican opposition to antisemitism is a political ploy to glean money from Jewish donors, said Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) at a “Jewish Democratic summer conference.”

TEL AVIV – Former NBA star Lamar Odom visited the New York burial site of the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, along with his two children. 

TEL AVIV – A senior Hamas official on Monday attempted to walk back his call to “attack all Jews on the planet” after the terror group distanced itself from his comments.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr joined FBI Director Christopher Wray among those to speak Monday at an antisemitism summit in Washington, DC, to address the rise of anti-Jewish hate crimes in the United States.

TEL AVIV – A senior Hamas official in Gaza has called on Palestinians in the diaspora to “slaughter Jews” around the world.

And then there were five … That’s the number of Jews known to currently live in Cairo following the death of the mother of the president of the Jewish community there.

TEL AVIV, Israel — In a musty basement hall of an unassuming building nestled among modern high-rises in the heart of Tel Aviv, a few hundred spectators are kindly requested to turn off their cellphones. What makes the typical scene surreal is that they are asked to do so in Yiddish — the playful, lyrical language of Diaspora European Jews.

TEL AVIV – Twenty-five years after he passed away, some 50,000 people gathered at the burial site in Queens, New York, of the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to pay their respects.

The stain of antisemitism in Europe has grown in the last five years and the situation is predicted to get even worse, a European Union report reveals.

Eva Mozes Kor, a survivor of Auschwitz and the death camp’s infamous doctor Josef Mengele, has passed away in Poland during a trip to the Holocaust site, sources said.

When the ushers locked the door to the sanctuary, and the congregants prepared to flee the synagogue in preparation for a mass shooting, Rabbi Neil Cooper made sure it all happened before they had to take the Torahs out of the ark.

TEL AVIV – The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday held an informal session on combating antisemitism and other forms of racism and hate.

TEL AVIV – Bahrain’s only synagogue was brought to life on Wednesday morning as President Donald Trump Special Mideast Envoy Jason Greenblatt was joined by Jewish businessmen, reporters, and rabbis for morning prayers on the sidelines of the U.S.-led economic peace workshop. 

TEL AVIV – Armed security guards should be deployed at every synagogue and Jewish community center across the United States, the U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Elan Carr said on Wednesday 

The Central Consistory of France, the body that represents French Jewry in matters of religion, confirmed Wednesday the city of Paris will name a square in honor Jerusalem.

AMSTERDAM — On the day Anne Frank would have turned 90, the museum dedicated to keeping alive her story has brought together schoolchildren and two of the Jewish diarist’s friends at the apartment where she lived with her family before going into hiding from Nazis who occupied the Netherlands during World War II.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — A rabbi in Rosario, the third most populous city in Argentina, was verbally and physically attacked in violence that has been characterized as antisemitic.

A science lecturer at the UK’s University of Essex has lost his job after an antisemitism fight sparked by the formation of a campus Jewish society.

A bare 24-hours after the German government warned Jews not to wear their traditional kippah in public places due to rising antisemitism, it now wants them to continue the practice to help defeat anti-Jewish sentiment.

TEL AVIV – A Christian couple posing as ultra-Orthodox Jews in a heavily Jewish Chicago neighborhood have admitted they did so to spread the word of Jesus.

Bernard Dargols, a Paris-born Jew and only French soldier to fight in an American uniform as Allied forces stormed ashore at Normandy’s Omaha Beach in a battle signaling the end of World War II, has died aged 98.

TEL AVIV – The American Jewish Committee (AJC) continued its crusade against the New York Times over its “grotesquely” anti-Semitic cartoon, calling on the newspaper to make good on its promise to make “significant changes.” 

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin  Netanyahu condemned the “abhorrent” shooting attack in a Poway, California Chabad synagogue on Saturday that killed one woman and wounded three others.

Some 1,500 worshipers arrived early morning Wednesday for prayers at the Tomb of Joseph in Nablus, according to media reports.

WARSAW, Poland — The Catholic Church in Poland poured scorn Monday on an anti-Semitic ritual enacted over the Easter holiday that involved an effigy of Judas represented by a stereotypical Jew being hanged, burned and beaten.

Rabbis stand ready join the ranks of the German army for the first time in 100 years, as the Bundeswehr looks to expand pastoral care for Jews in all services amid signs of a resurgence of anti-Semitism.

TEL AVIV – A 2,600 bulla (seal impression) and a stamp dating back to the First Temple era bearing Hebrew inscriptions have been uncovered as part of archaeological excavations at the City of David’s Givati Parking Lot in Jerusalem.

Joe Lieberman said Democrats “failed a moral test” on antisemitism in their response to Ilhan Omar’s comments about Israel.

FALL RIVER, Massachusetts — Police say 59 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in Massachusetts were defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti, about twice as many as initially thought.

ZARQA, Jordan — Jordan’s King Abdullah II is vowing to keep protecting Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, calling it a “red line” for his country.

TEL AVIV — A bill that would define anti-Semitism as racism, bar religion-based discrimination at schools and universities as well the demonization of Israel was unanimously approved by the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee Tuesday.

President Donald Trump reportedly told a room full of Republican donors on Friday night that “the Democrats hate Jewish people.”

Jexodus spokesperson Elizabeth Pipko explained her movement’s plans to help young Jews reject partisan Democrat and left-wing politics.

Paris — A surge in anti-Semitic violence and hate speech has prompted soul-searching for many in France, which has long wrestled with its history of discrimination and prejudice against Jews.