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September 6, 2012
5:22 pm

Martin Schulz, president of the European Parliament, speaking at the Great Synagogue of Europe in Brussels, March 2012. (photo credit: Courtesy European Parliament/JTA)

A guarded welcome on this year’s European Day of Jewish Culture

For the past 16 years synagogues in 28 countries have annually thrown open their doors to visitors. Now communities are beefing up security, and decrying the fact that houses of worship need the same protections as airports

By Cnaan Liphshiz

September 6, 2012
3:49 pm

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano (photo credit: CC BY The National Guard, Flickr)

US Homeland Security runs threat response exercise with Jewish leaders

The program features simulations of attacks on Jews and Israelis in the Diaspora

September 6, 2012
9:58 am

Fisherman from dramatic World War II rescue dies

Agostino Piazzesi was the last survivor of 15 fishermen who rescued 30 Jews who were held by the Germans in a castle in the middle of Lake Trasimeno

September 6, 2012
9:28 am

Australian human rights award named in Wallenberg’s honor

Inauguration marks a century since the birth of the Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust

September 6, 2012
9:24 am

EU launches online anti-Semitism survey in nine countries

The study ‘investigates firsthand examples of anti-Semitic harassment and violence as well as the extent to which Jews feel safe in Europe’

September 6, 2012
9:12 am

Frisians in traditional garb celebrating Fisherman's Day in Harlingen, Aug. 31, 2012. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz)

New Dutch translation of Talmud is a tribute to Friesland’s nearly vanished Jews

In the northern Netherlands, a community that has dwindled to 50 celebrates a unique form of Judaism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

September 6, 2012
4:48 am

Los Angeles Mayor and Democratic Convention Chairman Antonio Villaraigosa calls for a vote to amend the platform the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday (photo credit: AP/Charles Dharapak)

The night the Democrats lost control of the Israel message

Proposed changes regarding Jerusalem and the mention of God are met with boos by convention delegates

By Haviv Rettig Gur

September 6, 2012
12:56 am

In this picture taken Aug. 11, 2012 people attend a far-right summer festival for the National Democratic Party NPD in the village of Viereck, some 130 km north of Berlin, Germany. (photo credit: AP Photo/Gero Breloer)

Facing possible ban, German far-right changes tack

The National Democratic Party, trying to go mainstream, admits Nazi Germany’s record during World War II included ‘crimes.’ But can this leopard really shed its spots?

By Frank Jordans

September 5, 2012
9:41 pm

Shay Shapira, son of murdered athletics trainer Amitzur Shapira, right, delivers a speech in front of wreaths at a memorial at the former accommodation of the Israeli Olympic team in Munich, southern Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. (photo credit: dapd, Joerg Koch/AP)

Israelis and Germans mark 40-year anniversary of 1972 Olympic massacre

At air base outside Munich where most of the Israeli athletes were killed, flags are lowered to half-staff and relatives light memorial candles

By AP and Times of Israel staff

September 5, 2012
8:26 pm

Republican US Presidential candidate Mitt Romney holds a press conference in Jerusalem Sunday, July 29, 2012 (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Republicans, too, toned down support for Jerusalem in new platform, Times of Israel learns

A day after Republicans slammed Democrats for their Jerusalem shift, comparison shows that 2008 GOP promise to move US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is gone from 2012 text

By Haviv Rettig Gur

September 5, 2012
7:16 pm

An 8-day-old baby is prepared for his circumcision (illustrative photo: Serge Attal/Flash90)

Berlin declares circumcision legal, but only if performed by a doctor — not as a ritual

State does not authorize mohels, requires that parents be informed of the procedure’s medical risks before consenting

September 5, 2012
3:44 pm

Wexler: Obama best bet for Israel’s security

Florida congressman was among the first Jewish lawmakers to endorse Obama in 2007

September 5, 2012
3:23 pm

EJC president: Rabbis, imams must compromise on religious rites

Kantor advises to build on the Dutch kosher slaughtering model, but says Muslims and Jews ‘should never agree to change their faiths’

September 5, 2012
3:18 pm

Berlin police probing second anti-Semitic incident in a week

Girls from the Chabad Or Avner primary school were verbally abused with anti-Semitic slogans by teenage girls fom the neighboring public school

September 5, 2012
3:09 pm

David Harris, the president of the National Jewish Democratic Council, speaking to a British journalist outside the NJDC bus in Charlotte N.C., Sept. 3 (photo credit: Ron Kampeas/JTA)

At Democratic convention, a focus on Jewish swing voters as key to election win

In seven states — Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Colorado, Nevada and Michigan — a 10 percent swing among Jewish voters could be critical, strategists say

By Ron Kampeas

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