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Rabbi Cary Kozberg, right, sits with Temple Sholom President Laurie Leventhal inside the synagogue's Springfield, Ohio, sanctuary in 2016. (Courtesy Dayton Jewish Observer/via JTA)
September 23, 2024, 11:36 pm
Springfield, Ohio, rabbi will meet local Haitian leaders after disparaging community
Cary Kozberg, whose remarks come after Trump alleged migrants were eating their pets, says he ‘misspoke’ and has ‘modified’ his opinions; will remain employed with his congregation
By Andrew Lapin
Protesters march in London during the "National March for Gaza" on August 3, 2024. (Photo by CARLOS JASSO / AFP)
August 8, 2024, 2:00 am
UK Jews document record high 2,000 antisemitic incidents in first half of 2024
Community Security Trust says figure marks an all-time high for a 6-month period, is up 100% from year before; surging instances of Jew hatred include 41% jump in assault cases
By Canaan Lidor
In this April 19, 2020 photo, Vox Cinema employee Jackline Nansamba of Uganda stocks shelves at a Carrefour supermarket while wearing a face mask amid the coronavirus pandemic in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
May 7, 2020, 12:30 pm
Foreigners on the frontlines of pandemic in Arab Gulf states
COVID-19 crisis draws attention to vital role of expatriate workers in Arab Gulf countries, even as they are scapegoated as a source of infection
By Aya Batrawy
President Reuven Rivlin (R) and Israel's ambassador to Germany, Yakov Hadas-Handelsman (L) take part in a wreath laying ceremony at the 'Gleis 17' (platform 17) memorial of the deportation of Jews from Berlin to concentration camps at the Grunewald railway station in Berlin on May 11, 2015. Photo credit: Odd Andersen/AFP)
May 26, 2019, 1:07 pm
After kippa warning, Rivlin urges Berlin: Avoid defeatist response to Jew hatred
President says Israel will never submit to anti-Semitism, will ‘demand our allies act in the same way,’ after German anti-Semitism czar warns Jews against wearing kippa in public
By Raphael Ahren
Felix Klein, the German government's first-ever special envoy to the Jewish community, at the 'Berlin wears a kippah' protest, April 25, 2018 (courtesy BMI)
May 25, 2019, 3:08 pm
Skullcap-wearing Jews unsafe in parts of Germany, anti-Semitism czar says
Felix Klein laments ‘increasing social disinhibition and brutality,’ says state officials need better education on tackling hatred
By ToI Staff and AP
Illustrative: A broken window is seen at the center of the Jewish community center, after a suspected anti-Semitic attack in Rostock, northern Germany, January 8, 2009. (AP/ Thomas Haentzschel/File)
May 14, 2019, 3:18 pm
German officials say anti-Semitic incidents up 20% in past year
Minister says almost 90% of attacks on Jews committed by far-right; Islamophobic incidents, politically motivated crimes are down
By AP and ToI Staff
The 'Swastika Trail' street sign hanging in Puslinch Township, Canada. (Screen capture/YouTube via JTA)
November 30, 2018, 2:46 am
Canada reports major jump in hate crimes for 2017
After years of relatively modest increases, 47 percent spike mostly directed at Muslims, Jews and blacks
By AFP
Demonstrators gather in Berlin's Tiergarten district between the Brandenburg Gate and the Victory Column during a major demonstration for an open and caring society organized by the action group "Unteilbar" (indivisible) on October 13, 2018. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)
October 13, 2018, 7:47 pm
Tens of thousands stage anti-racism march in Berlin
Organizers says over 240,000 Germans attend rally, held in response to string of xenophobic incidents attributed to rising popularity of far-right
By AFP
Right-wing demonstrators light flares on August 27, 2018 in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, following the death of a 35-year-old German national, allegedly at the hands of two Muslim-world immigrants. (AFP Photo/Odd Andersen)
September 5, 2018, 5:07 am
German Jews call anti-foreigner riots a threat to democracy
‘This is a difficult moment for Jews living in Germany,’ says one Jewish leader
By JTA
Riot Police confront right wing protesters on August 27, 2018 in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, following the death of a 35-year-old German national who died in hospital after a "dispute between several people of different nationalities", according to the police. (AFP PHOTO / dpa / Sebastian Willnow)
August 28, 2018, 9:49 am
Ex-communist East Germany a hotbed for racist hate crime
Frustration at mass refugee influx exacerbating far-right sentiment, sparking wave of xenophobic violence
By AFP
France's far-right political party Front National founder Jean-Marie Le Pen speaks during a lunch meeting on September 5, 2015 in Marseille. (AFP/BORIS HORVAT)
June 14, 2018, 3:18 pm
France’s National Front founder Le Pen hospitalized during hate speech trial
89-year-old was due to face verdict in case over comments that conflated homosexuality and pedophilia and suggested that gay couples should not be in the public eye
By AFP
This poster featuring US billionaire George Soros in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, reads, 'We can't let Soros get the last laugh.' It was part of a government campaign, July 6, 2017. (Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images)
January 19, 2018, 11:40 am
Hungary plans ‘Stop Soros’ laws amid refugee row
Proposals include entry bans on foreigners and restraining orders stopping citizens from approaching border areas if deemed to be supporting refugees
By Peter Murphy
Police gather evidence after unknown perpetrators broke windows at the Muslim Cultural Center in Warsaw, Poland, November 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
November 27, 2017, 7:35 pm
Poland probes mosque attack, far-right ‘gallows’ protest
Police seek witnesses to window-smashing at Muslim cultural center amid broad uptick in xenophobic acts
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
Illustrative photo of police forces in Warsaw, Poland (photo credit: CC BY Piotr Drabik, Flikr)
February 6, 2017, 3:05 am
Polish police raid offices of center monitoring racism, xenophobia
Operation part of fraud, counterfeiting investigation, authorities say, but members of group decry ‘intimidation’ attempt
By JTA
People watch ceremonies marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, January 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
January 27, 2017, 5:19 pm
On Holocaust remembrance day, warnings of rising xenophobia
UN secretary-general laments ‘tragedy’ of ongoing anti-Semitism, vows to be on ‘front lines’ of fight against hatred; German FM: ‘There can and should be no end to remembrance’
By Vanessa Gera
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