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December 3, 2018, 5:33 pm
Vandals smash Swiss synagogue window with hammer
As police say no suspects in Basel incident, local rabbi says he fears for his safety for first time in 16 years
By JTA
Illustrative: A customer shops at a kosher butcher shop in North Miami Beach, Florida, on Nov. 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
October 24, 2018, 8:51 pm
Swiss kosher butcher vandalized 4 times in month
Jewish leaders say community increasingly concerned over string of ‘anti-Semitic’ attacks targeting Basel store
By JTA
Theodor Herzl on the balcony of the Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel, Switzerland, 1897 (photo credit: CC-PD-Mark, by Wikigamad, Wikimedia Commons)
June 29, 2017, 6:57 pm
Scrapped: Basel event to mark 120 years since Herzl’s First Zionist Congress
Netanyahu was to travel in August to Swiss city where Herzl in 1897 ‘founded the Jewish state.’ But poor planning has doomed the celebration, and recriminations are flying
By Raphael Ahren
Police collect evidence at the site of a shooting on early March 10, 2017 in the city of Basel, north-west Switzerland. (AFP/Sebastien Bozon)
March 10, 2017, 3:02 am
Two dead as gunmen open fire on Swiss cafe; terrorism ruled out
Assailants on run after attack in Basel; third victim seriously injured
By AFP
Shaul Ladany in his suburban Beersheba home with a prized piece of his Theodor Herzl collection, left. (Hillel Kuttler/JTA)
August 20, 2016, 4:45 am
At 80, a Munich Olympics and Holocaust survivor is still the sportsman
Shaul Ladany, a racewalker who holds a world record, welcomes IOC’s official memorial for his 11 teammates who were killed by terrorists at 1972 games
By Hillel Kuttler
A memorial stone for Anne Frank and her sister Margot on the grounds of the former Prisoner of War (POW) and concentration camps Bergen-Belsen in Bergen, north of Hanover, central Germany, on June 21, 2015. (AFP / NIGEL TREBLIN)
June 13, 2016, 5:24 am
Who owns the diary of Anne Frank?
On the occasion her 87th birthday, an update on the world’s latest commercial incarnations of the human face of Holocaust victims
By Matt Lebovic
Mosque of the Turkish cultural association in Wangen bei Olten, Switzerland. (Wikipedia Public Domain)
May 25, 2016, 11:37 pm
Swiss canton rules Muslim students must shake teachers’ hands
Parents of pupils who refuse could face fines of up to $5,000; Islamic council says decision amounts to ‘totalitarianism’
By AP
Anne Frank, at age 12, at her school desk in Amsterdam, 1941
June 27, 2013, 8:18 am
Court orders Anne Frank Foundation to return archive to Swiss fund
Competing organizations have a history of strained relations
Theodor Herzl on the balcony of the Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel, Switzerland, 1897 (photo credit: CC-PD-Mark, by Wikigamad, Wikimedia Commons)
October 2, 2012, 4:52 pm
Qatari ruler eyes iconic Herzl balcony
Basel hotel where the founder of modern Zionism was photographed in 1901 is up for sale
By Stuart Winer
April 20, 2012, 9:17 am
Basel opens first new Orthodox synagogue in 83 years
Community worries the new Chabad-run shul will be divisive
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