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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 345

European Jews

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
A French riot policeman stands guard outside the Paris Synagogue, two days after security measures have been reinforced near Jewish temples and schools, in central Paris, on October 9, 2023. (JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)
October 11, 2023, 4:10 pm
Synagogue security in Europe raised as Jews brace for antisemitism after Hamas assault
European Jewish communities prepare for reverberations far from the frontlines
By Shira Li Bartov, Alice D'Oleon, Orge Castellano and Jacob Judah
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) receives an invitation to the COP28 climate summit in November in Dubai from Mohamed Al Khaja, the UAE ambassador to Israel, May 25, 2023 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
May 23, 2023, 1:33 pm
Daily Briefing May 23: Netanyahu finally gets UAE invite, but not the one he wanted
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman brings headlines from the annual Herzliya Conference; religion reporter Canaan Lidor on stymied conversions and dying European communities
By ToI Staff
The Holocaust in Skede, Latvia, 1941. (Yad Vashem)
April 18, 2023, 7:53 pm
The forgotten horrors that hide in the Holocaust’s long, dark shadow
The genocide was more than a specific, contained, monstrous event. It was the successful culmination of six decades of fervent European efforts to rid the continent of its Jews
By Haviv Rettig Gur
'The Baron: Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century,' by Prof. Matthias B. Lehmann. (Courtesy)
April 11, 2023, 10:24 pm
How Orient Express’s Baron Maurice de Hirsch changed the track of Jewish migration
In bio ‘The Baron,’ Prof. Matthias B. Lehmann takes a new approach to history-telling by following the man who helped resettle Jews in locales ranging from Istanbul to Argentina
By Rich Tenorio
Panelists speak at the Summit of European Jewish Leaders in Berlin on March 26, 2023. (Courtesy of the JDC via JTA)
March 29, 2023, 9:00 pm
Israeli tensions spill over into Berlin at summit of European Jewish leaders
As Jews with strong ties to Israel, communities on the continent express frustration with its eroding democratic values and policies that affect them even in their own countries
By David I. Klein and Toby Axelrod
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