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'Antisemitism is anti-American': Senate holds hearing for antisemitism envoy

Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun’s nomination as US Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism sparks debate over his bipartisan approach.

 Yehuda Kaploun and Donald Trump.
An undated handout photo released by the Metropolitan Police shows Howard Phillips, who was jailed on Friday for assisting a foreign intelligence service.

UK Jewish man jailed for offering then-defense minister's information to Russian 'spies'

 Val Kilmer in "Top Secret!"

‘That’s Simchas Torah’: The Jewish Val Kilmer moment you might have missed

 A student walks on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut November 12, 2015.

AI website 'Jewish Onliner' linked to team behind Yale Scholar's suspension


Europe’s Jews prepare public Hanukkah events to ‘drive out darkness’

From Germany to France to the Netherlands, Jewish communities insist to continue Hanukkah celebrations despite security risks: "It's our way of driving out the darkness that is terrorism."

Rabbi Teichtel testing out menorah lighting in Berlin

European meltdown threatens Jews

With the current change of tides in Europe imposing a new reality on the region, how will the continent's Jewry fare soon?

SUPPORTERS OF Marine Le Pen put up a poster earlier this year. There has been a meteoric rise of right-wing movements in Europe, writes the author.

Denmark's chief rabbi allays concerns about circumcision ban

After reports started circulating, claiming that the Danish Medical Association was pushing for legislation against the practice on anyone under the age of 18, Denmark chief rabbi fights back.

Circumcision

The Dutch electronics company exec who helped save more than 300 Jews in WWII

“Like Oskar Schindler, Frits used the argument that the Jews he employed were indispensable to company production.”

Fritz Philips

Top Jewish American soccer players targeted by Israeli clubs

The notion of providing a haven in Israeli soccer for talented Jewish players from abroad has crossed the minds of a number of club owners and directors over the years.

Hapoel Tel Aviv striker Aaron Schoenfeld (left, battling Maccabi Tel Aviv defender Omri Ben-Harush) is a prime example of the talent pool of American Jewish players that Israeli Premier League clubs are looking to utilize.

Jewish US Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg apologizes for Trump remarks

"Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office," veteran justice says.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

South Korea seeks to boost its kosher food market

The government plans to provide food makers with kosher glossaries and encourage them to attend Kosherfest, the massive kosher products trade show held each year in New York.

Kosher certificates

Jewish American comedian Sarah Silverman almost died last week

"I am insanely lucky to be alive," the 45-year-old says after being hospitalized.

Sarah Silverman

Belgian court upholds kosher ritual slaughter rights

According to the court, restricting shechita by insisting that animals be stunned before slaughter would contravene Belgium’s constitution requiring freedom of religion to be upheld.

Rabbi Avraham Gigi

Israel patriot Shaul Mofaz meets Baloch activists in Frankfurt

The Jerusalem Post