'I don't want to live in a ghetto to feel safe': Young Jews in Berlin question a future in Germany

by mgall74 | Nov 26, 2025 | Israeli News

[ad_1] BERLIN – Although a formal cease-fire in Gaza has been in effect for more than six weeks, it did not stop student protesters at Berlin’s Technical University from occupying a key campus building earlier this month and presenting the administration with a...

An Israeli community thrives at the foot of the Italian Alps. But not all is perfect in paradise

by mgall74 | Nov 22, 2025 | Israeli News

[ad_1] Seventy-seven year-old Dina Cohen is one of the pioneers of this Israeli community in the Sesia Valley, aka Valsesia, in the Piedmont region of northwest Italy. “When I arrived there were barely 20 people here,” she says. But Cohen is also a pioneer...

A restored tombstone in Poland's Oswiecim sheds light on vibrant prewar Jewish life

by mgall74 | Nov 13, 2025 | Israeli News

[ad_1] OSWIECIM, Poland – For years, the tombstone belonging to Icchak Isidor Hirsch lay hidden on the ground, covered by a tree trunk in a corner of the Jewish cemetery in Oswiecim, Poland – the town adjacent to the Auschwitz extermination camp. During World War II,...

'Jews feel more Jewish as antisemitism intensifies': How British Jews navigate between anxiety, Zionism, class and culture

by mgall74 | Nov 1, 2025 | Israeli News

[ad_1] LONDON – For weeks now, Britain’s Jewish community has been making headlines in Israel, not least due to the terror attack on Yom Kippur, a month ago, in which two members of a Manchester synagogue were killed by a British citizen of Syrian origin. [ad_2]...

'Wild applause that went on and on': In Spain, a powerful sign of Jewish revival

by mgall74 | Oct 29, 2025 | Israeli News

[ad_1] All three members of this year’s graduating class at the rabbinical seminary run by the Reform movement in Argentina happened to be from Spain. It was as good an excuse as any to hold the first ordination ceremony in Spain in more than 500 years [ad_2]...