According to a report by the Community Security Trust, the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the UK rose in the first half of this year, with the anti-Semitism scandal in the Labour Party being a contributing factor. James Marlow, former head of news at the UK’s The Jewish Weekly, member of the Conservative Party, has commented on the report. Sputnik: The Community Security Trust, which protects... 

A stunning new Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the French General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) was pre-warned on 12 November by both the Federation and Israel of the pending Friday the 13th Massacre in Paris that was carried out by three teams of highly coordinated Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorists that killed 132 innocent civilians... 

Rabbi said recent attacks “have revealed the urgent need to stop talking and start acting”. A prominent Jewish organization in Europe is petitioning the European Union to allow members of the Jewish community to carry guns “for the essential protection of their communities,” according to the Washington Free Beacon. The European Jewish Association is pressing for new legislation that... 

When it comes to the award of most despised Minister within the Venizelos-Samaras Junta, Nikos Dendias is neck in neck with the Minister of Finance in the eyes of the Greek people. During a ceremony co-hosted by the Jewish community of Athens and Attica on Monday, the incompetent Minister of Public Order was a key note speaker, where he attacked Golden Dawn and read passages from the Jewish book,... 

The holiest Jewish site in Syria – the 2,000-year-old Jobar Synagogue in Damascus – has been looted and burned, and its roof blown off. The Syrian army and rebel forces have both blamed each other for the demolition of the historic landmark. It is believed that the Jobar Synagogue, one of the world’s oldest, was built atop a cave where the Prophet Elijah once hid from persecution. One of the... 

A German Rabbi has become the first person to face criminal charges after performing a circumcision. The charges come less than two months after a Cologne court ruled that the religious act causes bodily harm to newborn babies. Rabbi David Goldberg was sued by a German doctor on Tuesday, for inflicting “physical harm” by circumcising an infant. Chief prosecutor Gerhard Schmitt confirmed that the... 

Uneasy Divide: Muslims from Turkey are the largest and least integrated immigrant community in Germany. Fighting Islamophobia, Even as Muslim Anti-Semitism Persists. In Germany today, Muslims are often cited as a driving force behind contemporary German anti-Semitism — and are increasingly a target of ethnic-based prejudice and bigotry. Yet leaders of Germany’s Jewish community have joined others... 

Danielle Berrin mentioned at Swindler’s List a discussion Jeffrey Goldberg had with L.A. Super Rabbi David Wolpe. The topic of their conversation was Bernard Madoff. And like Rabbi Elliot Dorff and others too, Wolpe takes on look at the Jewish response to Madoff. For one, Goldberg wants to know if he should be excommunicated for allegedly bilking Jewish charities of hundreds of millions of dollars: David...