April 19, 2016
11:30 am

Lutz Bachmann, founder of the far-right PEGIDA movement speaks during a rally in Dresden, April 18, 2016. (AFP/ROBERT MICHAEL)

Head of German anti-Islam group due in court for hate speech

Lutz Bachmann, founder of far-right PEGIDA, charged with inciting racial hatred in Facebook posts

By Coralie Febvre

March 1, 2016
8:35 pm

A member of the Jewish community looks at broken tombstones after a ceremony at the Jewish cemetery in Sarre-Union, eastern France, on February 17, 2015, following the desecration of around 300 tombs. (Photo credit: AFP/PATRICK HERTZOG)

Council of Europe: Racism ‘commonplace’ in France

Figures show a 36% rise in anti-Semitic attacks, a 14% uptick in racist violence between 2012-2014

By AFP

October 10, 2015
5:55 am

Illustrative photo of Jews performing a religious circumcision. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

Council of Europe doubles down on anti-ritual circumcision stance

Pan-European body maintains position that a brit milah violates children’s rights

By JTA

October 2, 2015
2:14 pm

Illustrative photo of a ritual circumcision (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Council of Europe seeks ban on circumcision without ‘requisite skill’

Non-binding recommendation says ritual should only be allowed under ‘appropriate medical and health conditions’

By JTA

October 1, 2015
12:40 pm

Participants in a PEGIDA rally hold German flags during a demonstration in Dresden, eastern Germany, December 15, 2014. (AP/Jens Meyer)

Watchdog rings alarm on rising racism, anti-Semitism in Germany

Council of Europe committee cites ‘worrying developments’ in attacks on migrants and minorities, despite official efforts to open up country

By AFP

September 16, 2015
10:28 am

Migrants and refugees walk near razor wire along a 3-meter-high fence at the official border crossing between Serbia and Hungary, near the northern Serbian town of Horgos, on September 15, 2015. (AFP/Elvis Barukcic)

Migrants head for Croatia to avoid Hungarian fence

Refugees carve new route to Western Europe after Budapest erects fence on Serbian border; Hungary says 367 arrested for unauthorized entry, damaging wire barrier

By AFP

September 6, 2015
5:50 am

The Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports, a complex that was shut down a decade ago, is the site of a proposed $25 million conference center. (Flickr Commons/via JTA)

It’s a Jewish smackdown over Lithuanian site’s alleged graves

The biggest real estate development in Vilnius is the target of a duel between Londoner and local rabbis

By Cnaan Liphshiz

June 11, 2015
11:01 am

A man wearing a kippa cries near a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, in eastern Paris, on January 10, 2015, a day after four people were killed at the Jewish supermarket by jihadist gunman Amedy Coulibaly during a hostage-taking. (Photo credit: AFP/ KENZO TRIBOUILLARD)

Experts plot strategy to stymie prison radicalization

After Paris attacks, corrections and counterterror officials meet to consider stopping spread of radical Islam in jails

By AFP and Times of Israel staff

May 12, 2014
10:30 am

Illustrative photo of a street in Larnaca, Cyrpus, May 2, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/ YIANNIS KOURTOGLOU)

Syrian refugees find dead end in Cyprus

Human rights groups concerned over the treatment of asylum seekers and immigrants escaping civil war

By Caroline Nelly Perrot

March 5, 2014
1:49 am

FILE: A monument at a Jewish cemetery in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland is found desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti, March 2012 (Jedrzej Wojnar/AP)

Polish police arrest vandal of Jewish tombstones

Suspect reportedly desecrated over a dozen graves at an 18th-century cemetery near Krakow

By JTA

January 30, 2014
5:49 am

European Jewish officials defend ritual circumcision

Council of Europe hearing follows a resolution passed in October, which equated brit milah with female genital mutilation

By JTA

December 20, 2013
5:58 pm

Council of Europe motion backs circumcision

Moves to reverse earlier resolution comes after Israeli parliamentary group travels to Paris to plead for Jews’ right to perform ritual

By JTA and Stuart Winer

December 17, 2013
6:48 pm

Council of Europe to revisit anti-circumcision stance

Decision comes after Israeli parliamentary group travels to Paris to plead for Jews to retain ability to perform ritual

By Stuart Winer

November 18, 2013
5:34 am

Norwegian Jews hoping new circumcision rules head off ban

Motion comes only a month after Council of Europe assembly members pass resolution against non-medical circumcision of boys

By Cnaan Liphshiz

October 31, 2013
2:04 am

Jewish groups launch pro-circumcision task force

Panel convenes in Brussels in response to Council of Europe’s decision condemning practice as a physical ‘violation’

By JTA

Topic: Council of Europe

Head of German anti-Islam group due in court for hate speech

Lutz Bachmann, founder of far-right PEGIDA, charged with inciting racial hatred in Facebook posts

Council of Europe: Racism ‘commonplace’ in France

Figures show a 36% rise in anti-Semitic attacks, a 14% uptick in racist violence between 2012-2014

Council of Europe doubles down on anti-ritual circumcision stance

Pan-European body maintains position that a brit milah violates children’s rights

Council of Europe seeks ban on circumcision without ‘requisite skill’

Non-binding recommendation says ritual should only be allowed under ‘appropriate medical and health conditions’

Watchdog rings alarm on rising racism, anti-Semitism in Germany

Council of Europe committee cites ‘worrying developments’ in attacks on migrants and minorities, despite official efforts to open up country

Migrants head for Croatia to avoid Hungarian fence

Refugees carve new route to Western Europe after Budapest erects fence on Serbian border; Hungary says 367 arrested for unauthorized entry, damaging wire barrier

It’s a Jewish smackdown over Lithuanian site’s alleged graves

The biggest real estate development in Vilnius is the target of a duel between Londoner and local rabbis

Experts plot strategy to stymie prison radicalization

After Paris attacks, corrections and counterterror officials meet to consider stopping spread of radical Islam in jails

Syrian refugees find dead end in Cyprus

Human rights groups concerned over the treatment of asylum seekers and immigrants escaping civil war

Polish police arrest vandal of Jewish tombstones

Suspect reportedly desecrated over a dozen graves at an 18th-century cemetery near Krakow

European Jewish officials defend ritual circumcision

Council of Europe hearing follows a resolution passed in October, which equated brit milah with female genital mutilation

Council of Europe motion backs circumcision

Moves to reverse earlier resolution comes after Israeli parliamentary group travels to Paris to plead for Jews’ right to perform ritual

Council of Europe to revisit anti-circumcision stance

Decision comes after Israeli parliamentary group travels to Paris to plead for Jews to retain ability to perform ritual

Norwegian Jews hoping new circumcision rules head off ban

Motion comes only a month after Council of Europe assembly members pass resolution against non-medical circumcision of boys

Jewish groups launch pro-circumcision task force

Panel convenes in Brussels in response to Council of Europe’s decision condemning practice as a physical ‘violation’

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