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Topic: Vienna

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February 22, 2013
2:46 pm

Vienna Jewish museum may contain looted objects

Director pledges there won’t be ‘a hint of hesitation’ to return items stolen during the Holocaust

January 15, 2013
2:06 am

Moshe Friedman and his wife, Lea Rosenzweig, hold an improvised press conference outside Antwerp's Benoth Jerusalem, an all-female Haredi school forced by a Belgian judge to educate their sons. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA)

Anti-Zionist provocateur wins case, makes enemies in Antwerp

Is Moshe Friedman — a supporter of Hamas and an alleged Holocaust denier — fighting for his sons’ religious education, or using them as a legal weapon?

By Cnaan Liphshiz

January 7, 2013
7:14 pm

Anti-Semitic incidents in Austria nearly doubled in 2012

Nevertheless, country remains a magnet for Jews from neighboring Hungary, where situation is even worse

December 21, 2012
6:53 am

95-year-old Austrian soprano Hilde Zadek delivers a speech to the parliament in Vienna, after being awarded the Great Medal of Honor of the Austrian Republic on August 31, 2012. (photo credit: Parlamentsdirektion/Bildagentur Zolles KG/Jacqueline Godany/AP)

Jewish soprano still singing in Vienna at the age of 95

Early in her career, Nazi sympathizers tried, and failed to derail Hilde Zadek’s budding career

By George Jahn

December 19, 2012
12:36 am

British-born Beth Schlesinger is battling for custody of her twin sons, Samuel and Benjamin, after her Austrian husband alleged she was mentally ill -- a claim later rejected in two psychological evaluations. (Courtesy of Beth Schlesinger)

Nasty Jewish divorce spirals into an international incident

A custody battle in Vienna has split a family, pitted British and Austrian rabbis against one another and looks set to continue well into next year

By Miriam Shaviv

December 12, 2012
10:29 pm

World Jewish Congress head US billionaire Ronald Lauder. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Bribery claims roil Euro-Jewish relations with US billionaire

Ronald Lauder denies allegations that he attempted to buy votes for favored candidates during communal elections

By Cnaan Liphshiz

December 4, 2012
3:34 pm

Protesters reportedly chant ‘kill the Jews’ in central Vienna

March accompanied by anti-Semitic vandalism in Sweden and Hitler salute in Finland

November 30, 2012
5:41 am

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, and Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal launch the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue in Vienna. (Ronald Zak/AP)

UN chief opens interfaith center sponsored by… Saudi Arabia

Speech focuses on need to end Israeli-Palestinian conflict; critics question Saudi promotion of religious pluralism

By George Jahn

November 5, 2012
11:24 pm

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Liberman to convene Israel’s ambassadors to Europe in bid to thwart ‘Palestine’ gambit

Foreign minister aims to thwart Palestinian Authority bid for UN status upgrade

By Aaron Kalman

October 15, 2012
5:42 pm

Vienna to honor deserters from Hitler’s army

The memorial, the first of its kind in Austria, will sit in front of the office of the chancellor

September 20, 2012
11:36 pm

Israel's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ehud Azoulay, left, talking with US Alternate Permanent Representative to the United Nations Robert Wood, at the start of the IAEA board of governors meeting on Wednesday. (photo credit: AP/Ronald Zak)

Israel and Iran trade barbs over nuclear programs at IAEA meet

Both countries term each other a threat to regional stability

By AP and Joshua Davidovich

September 2, 2012
7:05 pm

Vienna, the capital of Austria (photo credit: CC BY-SA 2.0, Yaisog Bonegnasher, Flickr)

Vienna rabbi verbally attacked by soccer fan

Victim’s appeal to the police to intervene reportedly greeted with ‘Come on, it’s a soccer night’

August 24, 2012
5:27 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (photo credit: AP/Gali Tbbon, Pool)

Netanyahu points to ‘more proof’ that Iran is making progress toward nuclear weapons

Prime minister cites New York Times report warning nuclear inspectors will soon announce that Iran has installed ‘hundreds of new centrifuges in recent months’

By Times of Israel staff and AP

July 4, 2012
2:41 pm

Vienna strips anti-Semite’s name from posh road

Ring named after Mayor Dr. Karl Lueger, an inspiration for Hitler, now dubbed after the city’s main university

June 29, 2012
10:51 pm

A family mausoleum in the Jewish section of Vienna's central cemetery (photo credit: Peter Stadler, Vienna)

43 Jewish graves desecrated in Vienna

Police investigating anti-Semitic vandalism in city’s main cemetery

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