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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 586

Menachem Margolin

Illustrative photo of a ritual circumcision. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Belgium’s Jewish community on edge after police raids on illegal circumcisions
By Zev Stub
Police in Antwerp looking for rabbis conducting the religious rite without medical license; Jewish group says raids part of larger campaign of intimidation against Jews in Belgium
Illustrative photo of a ritual circumcision. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 14, 2025, 6:52 pm
Belgium’s Jewish community on edge after police raids on illegal circumcisions
Police in Antwerp looking for rabbis conducting the religious rite without medical license; Jewish group says raids part of larger campaign of intimidation against Jews in Belgium
By Zev Stub
The Israeli flag flutters between the European (L) and the German flag in front of the Reichstag building hosting the Bundestag, the German lower house of Parliament in Berlin, while the German chancellor gave a speech on the Israel-Hamas conflict during a Bundestag session on October 12, 2023. (Odd Andersen/AFP)
May 13, 2025, 6:16 pm
Survey: 82% of Europeans don’t consider fighting antisemitism a priority
Poll by the European Jewish Association finds that more than 20% blame Jews in their own countries for the war between Israel and Hamas
By Zev Stub
Rabbi Menachem Margolin, Chairman of the European Jewish Association, attends a Gala dinner during a two-day summit meeting of Jewish leaders from across Europe to discuss the rise of antisemitism on the continent, in coastal town of Larnaca, Cyprus, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
January 14, 2025, 3:33 am
Top rabbi urges Europe to act to ensure Jews remain amid antisemitism surge
European Jewish Association’s Menachem Margolin says 40K have left Europe over antisemitism in recent years, with serious measures needed to ensure rest of community doesn’t follow
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS
A view of the Monty Hall in Antwerp, Belgium in March 2023. (Google Maps)
June 8, 2024, 11:36 pm
Belgian arts center apologizes for canceling Jewish school’s event over Gaza war
But head of Antwerp’s municipal-funded Monty Hall, which had cited Israel’s ‘genocide,’ still vows not to cooperate with Israeli government ‘or any organization associated with it’
By Canaan Lidor
Rivkah de Reus blocks her husband Ernst de Reus during self-defense training given by an instructor from Belgium at a Jewish conference near Amsterdam on June 3, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
June 7, 2024, 7:06 am
Best offense is good self-defense: Fighting antisemitism gets physical at Jewish confab
Emigration projections and gun permit discussions are at the center of an international event held in the Netherlands under the shadow of anti-Jewish violence
By Canaan Lidor
File - National Security Itamar Ben Gvir leads an Otzma Yehudit faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 4, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
April 10, 2024, 9:52 am
A leader of European Jews accuses Ben Gvir of exacerbating antisemitism
Critics hit back at European Jewish Congress president for his comments on far-right minister, accusing him of ‘sanctimony’ and ‘failed appeasement”
By Canaan Lidor
People chant slogans during a protest in Chisinau, Moldova, Nov. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Aurel Obreja)
March 5, 2024, 3:05 pm
Poll on antisemitism in Moldova shows much hostility alongside widespread affection
Nearly half of respondents in Eastern European country say they don’t like Jews but 40% indicate they ‘really like’ them
By Canaan Lidor
Elon Musk carries his son X Æ A-Xii on his shoulders flanked by Ben Shapiro, right, Rabbi Menachem Margolin, second from left, and Gidon Lev at the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in Poland on January 22, 2024. (Yoav Dudkevitch)
January 22, 2024, 9:55 pm
At Auschwitz, Musk says social media, free speech would have prevented extermination
On his first visit to Nazi death camp, owner of X dismisses allegations that his laissez-faire attitude is promoting antisemitism
By Canaan Lidor and Agencies
Armenian Prime minister Nikol Pashinyan delivers his speech at the National Assembly of Armenia in Yerevan, Armenia, September 13, 2022. (Tigran Mehrabyan/PAN Photo via AP)
September 19, 2023, 12:51 am
In unusual move, rabbis in Europe condemn Armenian Holocaust comparisons
A letter cosigned by more than 100 rabbis accuses Armenia of distorting the genocide’s memory to hurt the reputation of its rival, Azerbaijan
By Canaan Lidor
A pencil said to have belonged to Adolf Hitler on sale at an auction house in Belfast, the United Kingdom, pictured ahead of its auctioning scheduled for June 6, 2023. (Bloomfield Auctions)
June 7, 2023, 9:04 am
Pencil said to have been Hitler’s sells for $6,700 — a 10th of pre-auction estimate
Initialed pencil is sold in Belfast along with other items linked to Nazi dictator; all are bought by online bidders
By ToI Staff and Canaan Lidor
A French officer stands guard near a synagogue in Marseille on November 3, 2020. (Christophe SIMON / AFP)
June 2, 2023, 10:42 pm
As Jewish leaders debate community’s future in Europe, their kids are already leaving
Antisemitism and the dwindling of European Jewry are eroding the hopes of some devoted activists to raise families in the communities they run
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: Staff work on the production line of Kosher poultry meat in a Kosher slaughterhouse in Csengele, Hungary on Jan. 15, 2021 (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)
October 22, 2022, 5:50 am
EU hosts Jewish, Muslim leaders defending ritual slaughter amid local bans
Jewish shechita and Islamic zabiha methods of meat production have come under attack in recent years, mainly by right-wing parties who seek to reduce religions’ presence in society
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Hungarian Jews celebrate the opening of a new synagogue in Budapest on Aug. 27, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA)
October 12, 2021, 3:18 pm
European countries with most antisemitic attitudes have fewest attacks – poll
Respondents from Poland, Hungary and Greece most hostile to Jews, but violent assaults rare in those locations; places where Jews are accepted have most incidents
By Cnaan Liphshiz
In this Monday, March 12, 2018 file photo, Congolese opposition leader Moise Katumbi speaks to delegates at a three-day forum in a resort hotel near Johannesburg, South Africa. Katumbi returned to Congo on Monday May 20, 2019, one of a number of political exiles coming home after a new president took office this year. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe,)
July 15, 2021, 6:06 am
Ancestry of Jewish refugee’s son at heart of major political crisis in Congo
Lawmakers introduce bill restricting presidency to those with 2 Congolese parents, in bid to disqualify popular opponent Moise Katumbi, son of a Greek Jew who fled Holocaust
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Consistoire President Joel Mergui addresses the European Jewish Association annual conference in Paris on February 25, 2020. (Yoni Rykner)
February 26, 2020, 10:21 am
European Jewish group unveils plan to ‘beat anti-Semitism’ amid rise in attacks
Community leaders from European Jewish Association call on politicians to take more action against Jew-hatred; in shift, many say they’d welcome security support from Israel
By Jacob Magid
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