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Illustrative: A soldier of the Danish Army (Forsvaret) guards the Copenhagen Synagogue, December 16, 2023. (Nils Meilvang/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)
May 8, 2026, 8:15 pm
Denmark records third straight year of historically high antisemitism
Jewish community of some 6,000 reports 199 antisemitic incidents – prior to Oct. 7 there were around 7 per year; 24 incidents recorded against Jewish kids and teens, 3 of them violent
By Zev Stub and ToI Staff
Hillel attendees in Berlin build a sukkah. (Debi Simon for Hillel Deutschland/ via JTA)
October 16, 2024, 2:11 pm
Despite record post-Oct. 7 antisemitism, European Jews are out and proud this Sukkot
From Milan to Warsaw, Jewish communities are building huts and brandishing the four species as usual — with a little bit of extra protection
By Mati Wagner
Illustrative: A soldier of the Danish Army (Forsvaret) guards the Copenhagen Synagogue, December 16, 2023. (Nils Meilvang/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)
February 22, 2024, 3:42 pm
Post-October 7 antisemitism in Denmark at highest level since WWII
All 121 recorded incidents of antisemitism were ‘Jew-hatred and not just criticism of Israel,’ says leader of 7,000-strong Danish Jewish community
By AP and ToI Staff
Members of the MuJu & Co. pass under the infamous 'Work Will Make You Free' sign at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum in Poland on October 1, 2022. (Courtesy of Dan Meyrowitsch)
November 9, 2022, 12:42 pm
From Auschwitz to Iftar: Danish Muslim-Jewish biker club revs up interfaith dialogue
Uniting over a common love of motorcycles, members of MuJu & Co. hit the road to fight bigotry, including guarding over a Jewish cemetery in Copenhagen every Kristallnacht
By Melanie Lidman
Author and photographer Rachael Cerrotti with Rabbi Bent Melchior in Denmark, 2019. (courtesy)
August 2, 2021, 5:11 pm
Former Danish chief rabbi Bent Melchior dies at 92
Son of Marcus Melchior, who helped save Danish Jewry from Nazis, is survived by son former MK Rabbi Michael Melchior; grandsons Jair and Joav, chief rabbis of Denmark and Norway
By Yaakov Schwartz
Tombstones vandalized at the Jewish cemetery in Randers, Denmark, November 10, 2019. (Bo Amstrup/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)
October 17, 2020, 2:07 pm
Danish neo-Nazi jailed for a year for desecrating over 80 Jewish graves
Accomplice yet to be sentenced for attack; pair also vandalized building adorned with two Stars of David, put stickers with logo of neo-Nazi group on rainbow-colored bench
By AFP
ILLUSTRATIVE -- Members of the far-right Nordic Resistance Movement march through the town of Ludvika, central Sweden, on May 1, 2018. (Ulf Palm/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)
September 30, 2020, 10:38 am
Scandinavian neo-Nazis circulate anti-Semitic flyers on Yom Kippur
Far-right extremists carried out coordinated campaign in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland on Jewish holy day, says World Jewish Congress
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen speaks in Bornholm, June 14, 2019. ( News Øresund/Johan Wessman via JTA)
September 13, 2020, 8:57 am
Netanyahu thanks Danish prime minister for opposition to circumcision ban
Mette Frederiksen says she is against proposed bill, citing ‘promise made’ to country’s Jews that they will remain a part of the country
By ToI Staff and JTA
Poster for 'Rosenbaum's Rescue,' a new play by Alexander Bodin Saphir. (Courtesy)
January 4, 2019, 11:12 am
Play depicts new details of alleged Nazi self-sabotage in rescue of Danish Jews
Opening in London next week, playwright Alexander Bodin Saphir’s ‘Rosenbaum’s Rescue’ dramatizes the miraculous overnight escape of Jewish Danes to Sweden
By Anne Joseph
President Reuven Rivlin, left, and Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen talk prior to a meeting at the Danish prime minister's residence Marienborg, in Lyngby, Denmark, on October 11, 2018. (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP)
October 11, 2018, 5:24 pm
In Denmark, Rivlin pays tribute to rescue of country’s Jews in 1943
Some 7,200 people, 95% of the country’s Jewish population, were smuggled in boats to neutral Sweden ahead of Nazi raids
By AP and ToI Staff
Danish Jews celebrating the rescue of their community from the Holocaust 75 years ago by sailing to Sweden in a reenactment ceremony on September 26, 2018. (JTA/Courtesy of Rochel and Yitzi Loewenthal)
October 11, 2018, 4:40 pm
Danish Jews recall desperate escape from Nazis, 75 years on
Daring rescue mission by resistance fighters and local fishermen enabled 7,000 Jews to flee to neighboring Sweden in 1943
By Camille BAS-WOHLERT
President Reuven Rivlin meets Danish Defense Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen on a state visit to Denmark, October 10, 2018. (Haim Zach/GPO)
October 10, 2018, 2:57 pm
In Denmark, Rivlin honors movement that saved Jews in WWII
Kicking off visit, president meets survivor who was ferried to Sweden along with thousands in 1943, lays wreath for Danish underground
By ToI Staff
Danish Jews celebrating the rescue of their community from the Holocaust 75 years ago by sailing to Sweden in a reenactment ceremony on September 26, 2018. (JTA/Courtesy of Rochel and Yitzi Loewenthal)
September 28, 2018, 11:45 pm
Danish Jews re-enact community’s Holocaust flight to Sweden 75 years ago
Dozens mark the rescue of 7,200 Jews by local fishermen, boat operators and Danish underground as Nazis started to move in on the community in October 1943
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: Danish Jews arriving in Malmo, Sweden in September 2012 to show their solidarity with the city's Jewish community. (Photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
June 16, 2018, 5:46 am
As Denmark considers a ban on circumcision, some Jews consider leaving
With parliament weighing new non-binding proposal, many in Jewish community feel caught between Islamist extremism and the xenophobia it triggers in their secularist society
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative photo of Jews performing a religious circumcision. (Serge Attal/Flash90)
June 2, 2018, 8:43 am
Danish parliament set to debate proposal to ban circumcision
Petition calling to outlaw practice gets over 50,000 signatures, forcing a non-binding vote; majority of lawmakers expected to oppose measure
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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