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Mohammad al-Saadi, right, meets with former Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani in an undated photograph that the U.S. Justice Department said came from al-Saadi's social media accounts. (DOJ)
May 18, 2026, 4:42 pm
US charges Iraqi man with organizing synagogue attacks in Europe and NYC on behalf of Iran
Mohammad al-Saadi allegedly directed the new group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya.
By Philissa Cramer
Israel's Noam Bettan and his backup dancers performing 'Michelle' during a rehearsal for the Eurovision on May 6, 2026, at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria. (Alma Bengtsson/EBU, via The Times of Israel)
May 11, 2026, 12:51 pm
Boycotts, beats and bling: Eurovision’s 70th edition kicks off in Vienna
With the focus once again on Israel, singers from 35 nations will compete for the top prize in the colorful contest, amid heavy security, expected protests and backstage tension
By Amy Spiro
Belgium steps up security around the country as threats escalate against Jewish communities in Europe. (Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images)
March 25, 2026, 9:34 am
Who is the new ‘terror group’ claiming responsibility for antisemitic attacks in Europe?
The group calls itself Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya, loosely translating to ‘The Islamic Movement of the People of the Right Hand.’
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Community members pray in Helsinki, Finland. (Photo by Adam Reinherz)
November 24, 2025, 3:14 pm
In Finland, small Jewish community seeks sizable engagement
Helsinki's Jewish community totals fewer than 900. Growth isn't simply a numbers game, leaders say. It's about creating a cooperative of co-owners connected 'as a community and to the wider Jewish world'
By Adam Reinherz
Restored synagogue interior, Lancut, Poland, 2012. (Credit: Courtesy of David Kaufman, via JNS)
November 6, 2025, 8:22 am
‘Jewish life more fragile than ever,’ says photographer of Jewish cemeteries
“Every place we went, there was someone who knew where the former cemetery or synagogue was,” David Kaufman told JNS.
By Dave Gordon
Local teens experience informal Jewish education. (Photo courtesy of Tallinn JCC)
October 30, 2025, 9:23 pm
No longer ‘Judenfrei,’ Estonia boasts future-focused model developing Jewish youth
Estonia possesses fewer than 3,000 Jews. Through continuous informal Jewish education, and robust communal programming, local leaders ensure there's a promising tomorrow for Jewish Estonians and 'all of us'
By Adam Reinherz
Classrooms Without Borders seminar participants exit the Rumbula forest in Riga, Latvia. (Photo by Adam Reinherz)
October 10, 2025, 2:48 pm
Beneath Latvia’s soil, stories speak
The quest to clarify and correct Riga's Jewish story began decades ago.
By Adam Reinherz
A pedestrian passes a building in Vilnius, Lithuania, that formerly housed the ghetto library. (Photo by Adam Reinherz)
October 3, 2025, 3:29 pm
Observance and observations: Seminar spotlights Vilnius
For generations, Vilnius was a colossus of Jewish culture. Before World War II, the 'Jerusalem of Lithuania' possessed 80,000 Jews and more than 100 synagogues. Intellectual titans wrote texts creating Ashkenazic norms. An influential Jewish publishing house set the standard for scholars worldwide. While libraries and exhibitions honor what was, a Classrooms Without Borders seminar asked participants to consider ties between people and paper
By Adam Reinherz
Fox Chapel resident Mario Czonstkowsky heads toward his mother's and grandparents' former street in Kaunas, Lithuania. (Photo by Adam Reinherz)
September 26, 2025, 11:34 am
Connecting past and present: A seminar bridges Jewish history across northern Europe
Curricula addressing the Holocaust or European Jewry often include 'Auschwitz and Poland.' Less mention is made of post-war Soviet life and the struggles and strengths experienced today. With stops in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland, a Classrooms Without Borders seminar wants educators to know 'this is the place'
By Adam Reinherz
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas talks to the media on September 17 in Brussels about a proposal to impose sanctions on Israel as a response to the Gaza conflict. (Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)
September 17, 2025, 2:29 pm
European Commission seeks sweeping sanctions on Israel amid Gaza offensive
The proposal does not have sufficient backing to pass.
By Grace Gilson
(Photo by nito100, courtesy of istock.com)
August 13, 2025, 10:53 am
From warning to reality: How America became what Europe feared
When antisemitism is tolerated or disguised as political critique, or relegated to the margins, it sends a clear signal: Bigotry is negotiable.
By Jonathan A. Greenblatt
Emmanuel Macron (Photo by Jacques Paquier, courtesy of flickr.com)
July 30, 2025, 10:08 am
Europe’s embrace of a phantom state is fueling antisemitism
The goal is not statehood. It’s to wound Israel.
By Fiamma Nirenstein
Jeremy Corbyn at a leadership eleciton rally in August 2016 (Photo by paulnew, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)
August 10, 2023, 1:42 pm
Europe’s far-left is normalizing antisemitism, report co-authored by ADL warns
Eclipsed by neo-Nazi hostility, radicals on the other side of the political divide are bringing Jew hatred mainstream, the US group and four European partners say
By Canaan Lidor
From left: Deanna Amoriello (who is traveling with Madison Jackson throughout Europe), Madison Jackson and Global Jewish Pen Pal Oliver Kriz (Photo by Oliver Kriz)
July 20, 2022, 7:44 pm
Voices of European Jewry: Bratislava, Slovakia
The city is not just home to sites of Jewish heritage; there is a small, but present, Jewish community as well.
By Madison Jackson
EU & Israel by Fredy.00 Česko courtesy of flickr.com
May 25, 2022, 8:34 pm
Europe will always back Israel’s right to exist
Peace is difficult, but in Europe, we know that peace is possible. Peace with security. Peace with liberty. Peace with dignity. Peace with justice.
By Roberta Metsola
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