September 12, 2016
5:57 pm

A man cycles between election posters of Alexander Van der Bellen, presidential candidate and former head of the Austrian Greens, left and right, and Norbert Hofer, candidate for Austria's right-wing Freedom Party, FPOE, center, in Vienna, Austria, Monday, Sept. 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Sticky strips delay Austrian presidential ballot re-run

Blaming faulty adhesive on absentee ballot envelopes, interior minister says election should be put off to year’s end

By George Jahn

May 22, 2016
8:02 am

Supporters of Right-wing Austrian Freedom Party presidential candidate Norbert Hofer attend Hofer's final election campaign rally at the Viktor Adler Markt in Vienna, Austria on May 20,2016. (AFP/JOE KLAMAR)

Far-right on edge of power as Austria votes for president

Predicted win by head of anti-immigration Freedom Party, Norbert Hofer, raises fears amid nationalist surge across Continent

By AFP

May 21, 2016
3:52 am

Right-wing Austrian Freedom Party (FPOe) presidential candidate Norbert Hofer on May 20, 2016 (AFP Photo/Joe Klamar)

Far-right Austrian presidential hopeful accused of lying over Jerusalem terror incident

Norbert Hofer claims he saw a woman armed with grenades being shot at Temple Mount in 2014. Times of Israel and other reports on incident are very different

By AFP

May 10, 2016
8:11 am

President of Austria Heinz Fischer, right, entrusts Austria's interim Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner with government functions in Vienna, Austria, on May 9, 2016. (AFP/APA/GEORG HOCHMUTH)

Austria seeks to regroup after far-right surge sparks shakeup

Center left ruling party considers joining forces with anti-migrant far-right after watching support erode at polls

By AFP

May 7, 2016
7:00 am

Picture taken on May 6, 2016 shows a block of the "Alfons-Petzold-Hof" council housing, built between the wars in Simmering, the working class district of Vienna governed for almost a century by the left but since last year by the far-right. (AFP /Joe Klamar)

Even in Vienna’s socialist utopia, Austria’s far-right reigns

District of Simmering, once considered a left-wing haven, became first part of capital to be run by populist Freedom Party

By AFP

May 1, 2016
11:18 pm

Nobel Prize winner Walter Kohn (YouTube screenshot)

Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, dies at 93

‘Physics isn’t what I do; it is what I am,’ said scientist who fled Nazi-ruled Austria

By JTA

April 12, 2016
3:02 am

Nazis holding looted art (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Nazi-pillaged artwork pulled from Vienna auction

‘Portrait of a Man’ by Bartholomeus van der Helst was part of a major art collection amassed by Jewish collector Adolphe Schloss

By AFP

April 7, 2016
6:31 pm

The Leopold Museum in Vienna (CC BY-SA 3.0/Manfreeed)

Austrian museum to return 2 Nazi-looted works to Jewish heiress

‘Solomonic solution’ found to row over art belonging to businessman Karl Maylaender, who perished in the Holocaust

By AP

April 6, 2016
11:44 pm

Illustrative photo of anti-Semitic graffiti (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Anti-Semitic incidents in Austria up more than 80%

Local watchdog group records 465 complaints in 2015, over 200 of them being hostile Internet postings

By JTA

March 30, 2016
1:05 am

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks with media at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, February 27, 2016. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Austria says Iranian president cancels visit to Vienna

Official cites unspecified security concerns on Iran’s part for cancellation of Wednesday trip

By AP

March 26, 2016
8:45 pm

Illustrative: An easyJet airliner on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International Airport, August 3, 2013. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Vienna-London flight halted as passenger raises IS fears

In false alarm, traveler fears Iraqi man sitting next to her is an Islamic extremist

By AFP

March 26, 2016
6:39 pm

Eric Weiner, author of 'The Geography of Genius' (Justin Tsucalas)

What makes a genius, can it be nurtured, and do disproportionate numbers of Jews excel?

From ancient Athens to modern-day Israel, author Eric Weiner looks to geography to redefine what it means to be brilliant

By Lisa Klug

February 28, 2016
1:21 pm

Undated photo of the Singer family. Grete is standing third from right (Courtesy)

In London attic, a Holocaust survivor’s story is rediscovered

A lost manuscript found in Peter Singer’s parental home connects him to a relative once derided, and almost forgotten

By Anne Joseph

February 27, 2016
12:23 pm

A woman and her children look on as migrants and refugees wait to cross the Greece-Macedonia border in the rain on November 27, 2015 near Gevgelija. (AFP PHOTO / ROBERT ATANASOVSKI)

Thousands stranded as Greece becomes a migrant ‘warehouse’

20,000 refugees remain in country mired in full-blown dispute with EU over border slowdowns and closures

By Elena Becatoros

February 18, 2016
12:36 pm

Stephan Templ, who was convicted of defrauding the Austrian government out of $700,000 in connection with a Holocaust restitution application. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Austria rejects appeal over fine for jailed Jewish ‘troublemaker’

Supreme Court throws out petition by Stephan Templ, imprisoned for fraudulent Holocaust restitution claim he denies

By Times of Israel staff

Topic: Vienna

Sticky strips delay Austrian presidential ballot re-run

Blaming faulty adhesive on absentee ballot envelopes, interior minister says election should be put off to year’s end

Far-right on edge of power as Austria votes for president

Predicted win by head of anti-immigration Freedom Party, Norbert Hofer, raises fears amid nationalist surge across Continent

Far-right Austrian presidential hopeful accused of lying over Jerusalem terror incident

Norbert Hofer claims he saw a woman armed with grenades being shot at Temple Mount in 2014. Times of Israel and other reports on incident are very different

Austria seeks to regroup after far-right surge sparks shakeup

Center left ruling party considers joining forces with anti-migrant far-right after watching support erode at polls

Even in Vienna’s socialist utopia, Austria’s far-right reigns

District of Simmering, once considered a left-wing haven, became first part of capital to be run by populist Freedom Party

Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, dies at 93

‘Physics isn’t what I do; it is what I am,’ said scientist who fled Nazi-ruled Austria

Nazi-pillaged artwork pulled from Vienna auction

‘Portrait of a Man’ by Bartholomeus van der Helst was part of a major art collection amassed by Jewish collector Adolphe Schloss

Austrian museum to return 2 Nazi-looted works to Jewish heiress

‘Solomonic solution’ found to row over art belonging to businessman Karl Maylaender, who perished in the Holocaust

Anti-Semitic incidents in Austria up more than 80%

Local watchdog group records 465 complaints in 2015, over 200 of them being hostile Internet postings

Austria says Iranian president cancels visit to Vienna

Official cites unspecified security concerns on Iran’s part for cancellation of Wednesday trip

Vienna-London flight halted as passenger raises IS fears

In false alarm, traveler fears Iraqi man sitting next to her is an Islamic extremist

What makes a genius, can it be nurtured, and do disproportionate numbers of Jews excel?

From ancient Athens to modern-day Israel, author Eric Weiner looks to geography to redefine what it means to be brilliant

In London attic, a Holocaust survivor’s story is rediscovered

A lost manuscript found in Peter Singer’s parental home connects him to a relative once derided, and almost forgotten

Thousands stranded as Greece becomes a migrant ‘warehouse’

20,000 refugees remain in country mired in full-blown dispute with EU over border slowdowns and closures

Austria rejects appeal over fine for jailed Jewish ‘troublemaker’

Supreme Court throws out petition by Stephan Templ, imprisoned for fraudulent Holocaust restitution claim he denies

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