The parents claim their 18-year-old son has severe autism and a brain tumor that affects his behavior.

The post of special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, which has been vacant since President Donald Trump took office in January, will be filled, the US State Department spokesman said.

An Orthodox Jewish candidate for mayor of Manchester apologized after burning what he called a “missionary bible” and posting images of it on social media.

A Chabad rabbi who was the victim of an anti-Semitic attack six months ago in Ukraine has died in Jerusalem as the result of injuries.

“Before the invasion,” Elliyahu Ezrahov says referring to Russia’s 2014 incursion into Eastern Ukraine, “Jewish life here was booming.”

“The freedom to practice your religion, without anxiety or prejudice, is one of the fundamental tenets of our society and as Prime Minister I will defend your rights to practice your faith without fear,’’ said British Prime Minister Theresa May in her wishes to the British and international Jewish community for Pesach.

Despite assurances given by the Romanian Minister of Education to a Jewish association regarding the right of Jewish students to practice their religion during their studies, a Jewish university student in Timisoara complained that his request for vacation during the Passover holiday has been rejected.

Belgium’s Jewish community protests plans by the country’s regional government to ban in 2019 ritual slaughter of animals without prior stunning, a measure that would mean that kosher meat would in future have to be imported.

Crif, the umbrella representative group of French Jewish institutions, said it is in contact with police and Paris prosecutor to shed light on the death of a 66-year old French Jewish woman who was thrown off her Paris apartment balcony by an Arab neighbor.

Yevtushenko, whose famous poem commemorated the massacre of 33,771 Jews at the Kiev ravine, has passed away.