Posts Tagged: Europe Jews
Antisemitism in Germany Is Skyrocketing – Here’s What’s Happening Inside the Country
A record-breaking level of antisemitic incidents signal that fear, hostility, and intimidation have become an enduring part of daily life for many Jews in Germany. In...
Do European Nationalists Really Love Israel?
For decades, major pollsters around the world have conducted surveys on attitudes toward Jews. For decades, these surveys have produced more heat than light. “Thinking of...
Non-Jews Must Stand Up to Indifference: Antisemitism in Modern Europe
Fears and anxieties are running high among British Jews, and among Jews across Europe more broadly. There is only so long that a community can...
Amsterdam’s New Warning to Europe on Antisemitism
Amsterdam likes to present itself as a city of tolerance. It celebrates diversity, prides itself on openness, and often reminds the world of its history...
The Day I Hid My Star of David Necklace
There are moments when a small object can feel unbearably heavy. For me, it was my Star of David necklace -- a delicate piece, inherited through...
80 Years After Liberation, Antisemitism Resurges Across Europe in Shocking Ratios
I am in Berlin today as a proud Jew with a stark warning: 80 years after the bloodiest war in history -- and the systematic...
Following the Pogrom in Amsterdam, Europe Must Act Now to Protect Jews
Pogroms are events that many Jews once believed were confined to the darkest chapters of European history, relegated to memory and textbooks. Yet, on November 7,...
Finland Takes Step to Combat Antisemitism, But More Can Be Done
Finland’s scandal-ridden new government recently published a policy to combat racism and bigotry, including antisemitism and Holocaust denial. The government has dealt with numerous crises...
Some Jews Do Believe They Have a Strong Future in France
For Jews, France has always been a country of paradoxes. On one hand, it freed them from Europe’s historic bondage of religious and cultural oppression....
Hanukkah and the History of Antisemitism
As children at Hanukkah time, we would sing “Maoz Tzur Yeshuati" as we lit the candles. This translates as, “The strength of my Rock [referring...
Poland and Jews: Co-Authors of History?
When I read about the appointment of a new Polish Deputy Minister of Education, Tomáz Rzymkowski, who asserts that Jews have too much power, I...
Should Europe’s Jews Give Up and Move to Israel?
On Sunday, the Guardian reported the depressing fact that “almost half of British Jews avoid showing visible signs of their Judaism in public, such as a Star...
Moving to Israel Amid European Antisemitism
JNS.org - A total of 140 new olim (“immigrants”) from France arrived in Israel recently, and were welcomed at Ben Gurion Airport by Pnina Tamano-Shata,...
J’Accuse! Our Dreyfus and Theirs
JNS.org - Two months after its shellacking in the United Kingdom’s general elections, the Labour Party continues to remind British voters of why they chose...
