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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 532

European Jews

Passengers look at a departure board at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, as flights are canceled and delayed because of a massive surprise attack by Hamas, on October 7, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)
Study: Nearly a million Israelis live abroad, changing the face of European Jewry
By Zev Stub
While most live in the US, Europe is now home to some 30% of Israelis abroad, bringing ‘significant transformation’ to local communities, Institute for Jewish Policy Research says
Passengers look at a departure board at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, as flights are canceled and delayed because of a massive surprise attack by Hamas, on October 7, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)
March 20, 2025, 2:58 pm
Study: Nearly a million Israelis live abroad, changing the face of European Jewry
While most live in the US, Europe is now home to some 30% of Israelis abroad, bringing ‘significant transformation’ to local communities, Institute for Jewish Policy Research says
By Zev Stub
Members of the Bricha descendants group pose at the Bad Reichenhall army base, which was turned into a Jewish DP camp called Camp Tikwah. (Courtesy)
January 27, 2025, 9:30 pm
Descendants retrace Holocaust survivors’ treacherous, covert journey to pre-state Israel
Children of Jews who secretly traveled to the Jewish homeland with the ‘Bricha’ movement, some of whom were born along the way, revisit the long route and uncover buried histories
By Bernard Dichek
An illustrative photo of electric fences with concrete posts and insulators surrounding the barracks where deportees where held at the Auschwitz concentration and death camp established by the Nazis. (Jack Guez/AFP)
October 30, 2024, 8:59 pm
New memorials honor hundreds of Jews murdered at little-known Nazi labor camp in Poland
Relatives of Holocaust survivors joined by Israeli and US envoys to mark unveiling of site at Adampol, where Jews were used as slave labor and massacred
By Vanessa Gera
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
The Brandenburg Gate is illuminated with the flag of Israel in Berlin, Germany, October 7, 2024, to mark the one-year anniversary of Hamas's October 7 massacre in Israel. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)
October 8, 2024, 2:19 am
European leaders mourn victims, decry surge in antisemitism at Oct. 7 commemorations
Israeli flag projected onto Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, Eiffel Tower goes dark to remember victims of Hamas massacre; several arrested at anti-Israel rally in Amsterdam
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Women enter a Jewish restaurant thought to have been targeted in a foiled Iranian-backed attack, in central Athens, Greece, March 28, 2023. (Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP)
October 6, 2024, 5:00 am
Foiled attack on Chabad Athens offers glimpse into Iran’s anti-Jewish terror plots
Since 2020, Islamic Republic is thought to be behind at least 33 thwarted kidnappings and murders of officials, Jewish and Israeli targets in West — likely an undercount
By Renee Maltezou, Cassell Bryan-Low, Yannis Souliotis and Phil Stewart
Mercedes Abitbol, 51, proudly wears her 'chai' necklace in the streets of Andorra, where she was born and has lived her whole life. (Larry Luxner/ JTA)
July 27, 2024, 12:04 pm
An unofficial synagogue and virtually no antisemitism: Meet Andorra’s tiny Jewish community
The microstate between Spain and France has warm relations with Israel, and while its 73 Jews pray in a community center they can’t call a temple, they feel right at home
By Larry Luxner
Photographers watch Jewish people and supporters blow shofars and whistles in London, March 10, 2024 to show solidarity with the hostages held in Gaza by terror groups since October 7.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
July 22, 2024, 10:23 am
Israel a much higher priority for European Jewish leaders after Oct. 7, survey shows
Supporting the Jewish state rose from 14th to 5th in importance in a poll of hundreds of community heads from 32 countries
By Canaan Lidor
A German police officer stands guard in front of a synagogue in Frankfurt, Germany, on November 8, 2023. (Michael Probst/AP)
July 11, 2024, 11:55 am
Poll: 96% of Jews in 13 EU countries say they experience antisemitism in daily life
Jews ‘more frightened than ever’ since Oct. 7, warns Fundamental Rights Agency, after its third antisemitism survey finds most respondents feel less safe, especially in France
By Canaan Lidor and AFP
A new synagogue and community center in Potsdam, Germany, dedicated on July 5, 2024, is home to four congregations. (Monika Skolimowska/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)
July 10, 2024, 2:31 pm
Four German congregations to share new synagogue in heart of Potsdam
Congregations will take turns using multi-denominational facility, which took some 20 years to build; synagogue is ‘a gift to us all,’ says German president
By Toby Axelrod
Rawa Majid, a Kurdish-Swedish criminal at the head of the Foxtrot crime ring, which Israel accuses of being behind Iran-backed attempts to attack Israeli and Jewish targets in Europe, May 2024.
May 30, 2024, 2:00 pm
Mossad: Iran-backed criminal networks behind attacks on Israeli embassies in Europe
Swedish intelligence agency confirms that Tehran is using local organizations — including the Foxtrot and Rumba crime rings — to attack Israeli and Jewish targets
By Lazar Berman
The building of the European Court of Human Rights in in Strasbourg, France, March 13, 2012. (CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons)
February 15, 2024, 8:50 pm
Top European rights court upholds bans on halal, kosher slaughter in Belgium
Rabbi slams ‘a black day for Europe’ amid fears other countries will follow suit; critics say the bans infringe on religious practice
By JTA and Canaan Lidor
Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt poses for media while rabbis from across Europe attend the 32nd General Convention in Munich, Germany, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
January 20, 2024, 3:51 am
German city awards European unity prize to leading rabbi and continent’s Jewry
Aachen gives 2024 Charlemagne award to Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt and European Jewish communities to ‘send a signal that… there must be no place for antisemitism in Europe’
By AFP and ToI Staff
A woman walks along a building whose facade is covered with Stars of David painted during the night, in the Alesia district of Paris, on October 31, 2023. (Geoffroy Van der Hasselt/AFP)
December 2, 2023, 1:13 am
As antisemitism spikes across Europe, more fingers are pointing at Russia
As the Israel-Hamas war rages, sources claim Russians stoking an already tense situation – a strategy used by the country’s security services against the West since the Cold War
By David I. Klein
FILE - An Israel supporter holds up a placard saying 'End Jew Hatred' during a rally at Trafalgar Square, London, on October 22, 2023, amid the Gaza war. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
November 26, 2023, 2:34 pm
Concealing kippahs in public, hiding mezuzahs: Europe’s Jews worry about antisemitism
The fallout from the Israel-Hamas conflict ripples through Europe, shaking a continent all too familiar with deadly anti-Jewish hatred
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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