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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 539

Diaspora Jews

Illustrative: Israeli President Isaac Herzog delivers the keynote address on August 29, 2022, to mark the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress at the historic Stadtcasino in Basel, where Theodor Herzl convened the first congress which paved the way for the creation of the State of Israel. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
From far left to Haredi right, Jews question ethics of voting in World Zionist Congress
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
As Jewish voters across the globe help decide Israel’s future, diametrically opposed groups on the fringes are united in taking issue with the terms of participation
Illustrative: Israeli President Isaac Herzog delivers the keynote address on August 29, 2022, to mark the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress at the historic Stadtcasino in Basel, where Theodor Herzl convened the first congress which paved the way for the creation of the State of Israel. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
March 25, 2025, 4:36 pm
From far left to Haredi right, Jews question ethics of voting in World Zionist Congress
As Jewish voters across the globe help decide Israel’s future, diametrically opposed groups on the fringes are united in taking issue with the terms of participation
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Anti-government protesters wave Israeli and American flags outside a Tel Aviv hotel hosting members of the 38th Zionist Congress, April 22, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
March 10, 2025, 9:29 pm
World Zionist Congress polls open in US, with ‘soul of the State of Israel’ at stake
American Jews will select 173 candidates from 21 lists, ranging from right-wing Orthodox to anti-Netanyahu Israeli expats, to serve in 39th session of body founded by Herzl in 1897
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Then-Diaspora affairs minister Nachman Shai addresses a World Zionist Organization conference marking the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, on August 28, 2022. (Courtesy)
February 11, 2025, 5:46 am
Billions at stake: WZO vote sees Orthodox-liberal struggle, opportunity for N. American Jews
Held online from March 10 to May 4 and open to almost all US Jews, vote will help decide how over $1 billion a year of ‘the Jewish people’s money’ will be allocated to institutions
By Zev Stub
The interior of a synagogue in Rouen, France, that a man is suspected of having set on fire, May 17, 2024. The man was shot dead by French police. (AP Photo)
January 23, 2025, 6:39 am
Antisemitic acts remain at ‘historic’ high in France, local Jewish group reports
CRIF say France saw almost 1,600 antisemitic acts in 2024, among them multiple synagogue arsons, rape of 12-year-old girl; figure is down from 2023, but higher than previous years
By AFP and ToI Staff
US President Joe Biden speaks at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, January 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
January 20, 2025, 5:00 pm
Biden, who campaigned on issue of antisemitism, leaves as it hits historic levels
Outgoing US president established 1st national strategy to fight antisemitism, even appointing special envoy, but couldn’t stop surge of anti-Jewish hate after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack
By Ron Kampeas
An image released by New South Wales Police showing suspects in an attack on a Sydney, Australia, synagogue on January 11, 2025. (NSW Police)
January 12, 2025, 9:54 am
Australian cops say vandals who defaced Sydney synagogue also tried to burn it
Newtown synagogue, which was covered in swastikas on Saturday, was also target of attempted arson, says New South Wales premier, blasting ‘escalation’ in antisemitism
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A mural of Anne Frank wearing a keffiyeh in Bergen, Norway, painted by the anonymous artist Töddel, July 2024. (Courtesy of Töddel via JTA)
November 28, 2024, 2:44 am
After Oct. 7, Diaspora Jews struggle with how to react to seeing keffiyehs in public
Free expression or threat: With the scarf so popular among activists, some struggle to distinguish between support for Palestinians and an endorsement of the Hamas massacre
By Andrew Lapin
Sid Rosenberg speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump's speech at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, October 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
November 2, 2024, 1:05 am
Shock jock Sid Rosenberg has become one of Trump’s most aggressive Jewish surrogates
After speaking at a NYC campaign rally Sunday panned by critics as ‘misogynistic, bigoted and crude,’ the radio host doubles down on the only candidate he sees as good for the Jews
By Luke Tress
Brandon Johnson, Mayor of Chicago, speaking on the first day of the Democratic National Convention Monday, August 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
October 31, 2024, 11:45 am
Chicago mayor condemns shooting of Jewish man but omits religious identity, drawing ire
Members of Jewish community decry Brandon Johnson’s statement: ‘We’re scared and we need to know that our mayor has our back’
By jacob gurvis
Hakafot — circular dances around the Torah — are a key ritual on the holiday of Simhat Torah. (Frank Rumpenhorst/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)
October 23, 2024, 11:56 pm
Jews around the world rethink joyous Simhat Torah holiday on mournful anniversary
Exactly one year on the Hebrew calendar after the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, communities grapple with a seemingly irreconcilable commemoration
By jacob gurvis and Deborah Danan
Author and Israel advocate Aviva Klompas. (Zev Fisher)
October 11, 2024, 10:02 am
What Matters Now to Aviva Klompas: Fighting for public opinion, the 8th front of the war
The author and Israel advocate has tirelessly posted on her social platforms, sharing essential objective facts and stories of those who have fallen on and since October 7
By ToI Staff
A public bomb shelter where Israelis were murdered during the October 7 massacre one year ago, on a road near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, September 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 11, 2024, 2:23 am
One year after Oct. 7, a Yom Kippur ritual of communal mourning takes on fresh meaning
Leaders try to find ways to ritualize grief, with some putting out supplements to the usual prayers that focus on the tragedy and 12 months of conflict with no end in sight
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Antisemitic graffiti is seen on a monument in Buenos Aires on October 9, 2024. (Federico Ballán/X)
October 10, 2024, 9:36 pm
‘Serve the nation, kill a Jew’ graffitied on prominent Buenos Aires monument
Antisemitic slogan, which has long history on Argentina’s far right, written on monument to independence hero Simon Bolivar days after Oct. 7 anniversary
By Juan Melamed
Anti-Israel protesters hold up posters behind a student attending a rally to mourn victims on the one-year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas terror onslaught, on October 7, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Alex Kent / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
October 8, 2024, 4:02 am
Anti-Israel activists show their true face at Columbia as students mark year since Oct. 7
Supporters of the Jewish state cap a difficult year amid raucous demonstrations by rival anti-Israel groups at NYC school that has been a hotspot since Hamas onslaught sparked the war
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: Family members of hostages held by terror group Hamas in the Gaza Strip lead a crowd at a rally for the captives' release, in Central Park, New York, March 10, 2024. (Luke Tress via JTA)
October 6, 2024, 12:43 am
Across North America, Jews and their allies prepare for a poignant Oct. 7 commemoration
Falling during the Days of Awe, the anniversary of the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust still painfully resonates – and brings people together – around the world
By Cathryn J. Prince
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