Pogroms

Advocates decry ‘pogrom on the playground’ after Jewish children targeted in Chicago on Oct. 7

The incident took place on Oct. 7, during the second anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel, in Shawnee Park, which is located blocks from a number of the town’s Orthodox synagogues.

Five Jewish children were shot with pellet guns at Shawnee Park in Skokie, Illinois on Oct. 7, 2025.
Dagestani activist Abakar Abakarov

Abakar Abakarov, Dagestani Islamist linked to 2023 airport pogrom, found dead in Turkey

 Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters demonstrate and light flares in Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 7, 2024, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video.

Compensation paid out to victims of Amsterdam riots, law firm announces

Protesters running after Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam

Months after Amsterdam pogrom: Four more sentenced, Israelis among 122 suspects


Remembering the rescue of Eastern European orphans

Jewish representatives from Ukraine unanimously declared that the number of Jews massacred far exceeded 100,000.

 In the summer of 1919, Gen. Denikin's troops captured Kharkiv

Memorial site launched at Babi Yar killing ground

Testimony of Nazi murderers revealed • Presidents Herzog, Zelensky, Steinmeier launch commemoration site • Sharansky: A double crime was committed, first by Nazis, then Soviets

 President Isaac Herzog at Babi Yar, October 6, 2021.

The Jewish story: From generation to generation

For hundreds of years my family lived, thrived and persevered in the small Moravian town of Boskovice. And then, in one dreadful blow, they were all gone. Today there isn’t a single Jew in the town.

THE WRITER’S son and family visited the city of Terezin, at one of the security gates in the fortification walls the Nazis used as a ready-made concentration camp.

Grandma, I'm sorry I didn't listen: 80 years since Iași Pogrom - opinion

The voices of my brother's blood are crying out from the ground, and in the face of these voices, I am now sounding the alarm of antisemitism in Jewish communities all over the world.

The Victims of Iaşi Pogrom Monument is seen in Iasi, Romania.

Minors accused of antisemitic vandalism of historic Romanian synagogue

The vandalism came ahead of the 80th anniversary of the Iași pogrom, a brutal Holocaust massacre that saw over 13,000 Jews murdered between June 29 and July 16, 1941.

The historic Orăștie synagogue in Romania.

Yiddish writers knew from pogroms. Here’s what they can teach about Tulsa

How Yiddish writing viewed matters of race in America.

A contemporary photograph shows the ruins of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Okla., after a white mob and local law enforcement attacked and killed hundreds of the neighborhood's Black residents, June 1921.

Remembering the Farhud pogrom and its lessons for today - opinion

One of the most important elements to this is how best to understand and then combat hate, incitement and violence between communities.

This Monument, ‘Prayer,’ in Ramat Gan, is in memory of the Jews who were killed in Iraq during the Farhud pogrom (1941) and in the 1960s.

Farhud pogrom commemorated with virtual candle-lighting ceremony

The ceremony was organized by David Dangoor, who is a businessman and philanthropist who grew up in the Jewish community of Baghdad and now lives in the UK.

Nessim Zalayet depicts the Farhud 311

Are the Jews being attacked in Israel’s mixed cities victims of ‘pogroms’?

What exactly is a pogrom? Are Jews the inevitable, exclusive victims? When a video captured Jewish rioters beating what they took to be an Arab man in Bat Yam, was that not a pogrom?

This is Hamas’s victory image. Policemen stand near a burning police car during clashes with Arab rioters in the Arab-Jewish town of Lod this week.

Locals commemorate pogrom against Greeks and Jews in Turkey in 1955

The attacks didn’t only target Greeks but also other minorities, including Jews and Armenians.

THE DESTRUCTION of this Munich synagogue during the Kristallnacht pogroms of 1938 haunts its Jewish community till this day.