Hundreds of Jews from Europe and Israel have arrived at Ghriba, known as the oldest synagogue of Africa, on the Tunisian resort island of Djerba, for an annual pilgrimage amid tight security measures.
The 54-year-old Mayor of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, Gennady Kernes, who was seriously wounded after being shot, has been airlifted to an hospital in Israel for treatment.
If Putin’s Russia continues on the same nationalistic, xenophobic, insular and imperial course, it will inevitably end up accusing Jews of disloyalty and perfidy.
Hundreds gathered at a suburban Kansas City JCC for an interfaith memorial service for the victims of shootings there and at a nearby Jewish retirement home.
Strengthening relations betwen Poles and Jews, fighting anti-Semitism and teaching tolerance though education is the main mission of the Forum for Dialogue Among Nations, a Warsaw-based non-profit Polish organization founded in 1998.
The Jewish communities and organizations of Ukraine condemn in the strongest terms all attempts to justify military aggression through speculating on the topic of anti-Semitism.
''We all needed to come together to...bring into this tragedy God, heaven, peace and love,'' president of Overland Park JCC tells gathering; US Attorney-General Holder: Every hate crime ''an affront to who we are.''