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Ontario Jewish community saddened, but not shocked, by shootout outside synagogue
Canadian police at the scene of a shooting near Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ontario, September 21, 2026. (Screenshot/CBC)
By Emma Paidra
Leaders say anti-Israel and anti-Zionist discourse have contributed to rising antisemitism and endangered Canadian Jews
Hannah Gann, a Jewish public school teacher and activist in Philadelphia who pretended to be Palestinian for years, addresses a meeting of the Philadelphia Board of Education, Dec. 4, 2025.(Screenshot via JTA)
Jewish teacher in Philadelphia admits to fabricating Palestinian identity for years
By Andrew Lapin
‘No business with Neo-Nazis’. (Image Flats! via Flickr., CC BY-SA/The Conversation)
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How Germany’s far right uses emojis and fashion to sidestep ban on Nazi symbolism
Tom Birkett, Felix Lummer and Timothy Liam Waters
This week's The Reel Schmooze podcast features the new documentary, 'You Had To Be There.' (courtesy)
The Reel Schmooze podcast
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‘You Had To Be There’: How a musical about Jesus shaped Jewish comedy
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Jordan Hoffman
Former star striker Wayne Rooney stands on the pitch before the Champions League soccer match between Liverpool and Real Madrid in Liverpool, England, November 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
September 24, 2026, 3:13 pm
British soccer legend Wayne Rooney reveals Jewish ancestry
Raised Catholic and once interested in becoming a priest, former England striker learns his great-grandmother fled Poland for Liverpool
By ToI Staff
American soldiers of the US 9th army are looking over the vast expanse of grave plots at German Stalag 326-6k in Germany on April 17, 1945, where 30,000 Russian prisoners of war are buried. (Fred Ramage/AP)
September 24, 2026, 2:40 pm
Germany investigates alleged 105-year-old Nazi POW camp guard
Man accused of being accessory to multiple murders at prisoner-of-war site Stalag 326 VI K, in western Germany’s Senne region, prosecutors say
By AFP
Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun attends a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on his nomination to be the special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, November 19, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
September 24, 2026, 6:47 am
Jewish Democrats in Congress oppose plans to merge roles of Holocaust and antisemitism envoys
Letter to Rubio calls to keep the Holocaust envoy as ‘a distinct, permanent office,’ as Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun pushes to fold the post into his antisemitism office
By Joseph Strauss
Rabbi Albert Axelrad, shown above in 1982, was chaplain and Hillel rabbi at Brandeis University for 34 years, starting in 1965. (Peter Morris/Fairfax Media via Getty Images via JTA)
September 23, 2026, 8:51 pm
Albert Axelrad, Brandeis Hillel rabbi who championed pluralism and social justice, dies at 87
Brooklyn native was a pioneer of adult b’nai mitzvah and a founder of Boston’s Havurat Shalom, which served as a model for the havurah movement
By Michele Chabin
Vincent Reynouard (left), prosecuted for contesting crimes against humanity, during his appearance before the Saverne criminal court, September 27, 2007. (Frederick FLORIN / AFP)
September 23, 2026, 12:37 pm
French Holocaust denier jailed for denying Nazi gas chambers, saying Jews spread disease
Vincent Reynouard, who has been convicted 10 times for similar offenses, sentenced to 8 months and ordered to pay damages to Jewish groups
By AFP and ToI Staff
Nelli Levonyan, left, who has appeared multiple times in a full Nazi uniform on Duel.com’s blackjack live streams, sits alongside Paul 'Gypsy Crusader' Miller, who often appears online dressed up as the supervillain the Joker. (Screenshot via JTA)
September 23, 2026, 3:54 am
Crypto casino used Nazi imagery even before Orlando fight with swastika flags and Hitler salutes
Politicians condemn bigoted fighter and fans after scandalous combat sports event last month, but promoter Duel and owner Ossi Ketola have history of racially charged controversy
By Joseph Strauss
Police officers talk near the scene of a shooting where a police officer was shot outside a Yom Kippur gathering at Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ontario, Canada, September 21, 2026. (Patrick Doyle/Reuters)
September 22, 2026, 10:34 pm
Gunman who fired on police outside Canada synagogue dies of gunfight wounds
29-year-old shot by police during exchange of fire in which he injured officer; investigators yet to officially confirm if Jewish community was target of attack
By AFP and ToI Staff
Orthodox Jewish men walk near the scene of a deadly terror attack at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue, in Crumpsall, Manchester, England, October 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ian Hodgson)
September 22, 2026, 8:59 pm
UK police: 2 arrested over suspected plot to target Manchester Jewish community
Suspects, in their 30s, detained in ‘long-running’ terror probe; searches made in Salford and Liverpool but officers say there is no ongoing threat
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Democratic US Congressional candidate Brad Lander takes the stage during an election eve rally at Silo on June 22, 2026, in the East Williamsburg neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP)
September 22, 2026, 8:19 pm
At Yom Kippur service, NYC’s Lander, Mahmoud Khalil accuse Israel of ‘genocide’
US House candidate and anti-Zionist activist focus holiday gathering on ‘complicity’ in alleged Israeli crimes
By Luke Tress
Illustrative: A Shabbat table (iStock by Getty Images)
September 22, 2026, 3:35 pm
Room for one more? Campaign bridges divides by breaking bread
Grassroots initiative urges Jews to invite someone outside their usual circles this Sukkot, building on successful trial run over Tisha B’Av
By Zev Stub
People hold pictures of victims during a ceremony to commemorate the 31st anniversary the AMIA bombing attack which left 85 dead and more than 300 wounded, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on July 18, 2025. (Luis ROBAYO / AFP)
September 22, 2026, 12:34 pm
Argentine judge charges 7 Iranians, 1 Lebanese over 1994 AMIA Jewish center bombing
Iranian defendants held high-ranking government positions, while Lebanese suspect was Hezbollah member; the charges, made in absentia, may lead to trial over attack that killed 85
By AFP
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Writer and political activist Gloria Steinem speaks to the crowd during the Women’s March on Washington, January 21, 2017, in Washington. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)
September 22, 2026, 11:29 am
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After Gloria Steinem’s passing, Yehuda Kurtzer and Judith Rosenbaum reflect on her legacy, Jewish women in feminism, and sustaining social change across generations.
Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City delivers a speech at the synagogue, May 27, 2026. (Courtesy/Lenny Medina/RetroLenz Photography)
September 21, 2026, 7:58 pm
Leading US Reform rabbi in Yom Kippur sermon: Unhinged, obsessive loathing of Israel is corrupting US values
Ammiel Hirsch warns that if antisemitism is allowed to spread, ‘it is not only Jews who will pay the price, America will too’; says Jewish voters should only back politicians ‘who support us’
By Luke Tress
Canadian police at the scene of a shooting near Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ontario, September 20, 2026. (Screenshot/CBC)
September 21, 2026, 7:21 pm
Gunman opens fire outside Ontario synagogue on Yom Kippur; police officer seriously wounded
Shooting took place at start of Sunday Yom Kippur eve services at Sons of Jacob Synagogue, nobody hurt inside building; dozens of bullets fired; police say likely a hate crime
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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