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Traveling in Europe this summer, I felt unsafe as a Jew — but also empowered

by Zack Bodner September 9, 2025September 9, 2025

I am a proud Jew. I wear a chai necklace outside my shirt and a bracelet with a prominent Magen David on my wrist. A sticker of an Israeli flag […]

Students of Copenhagen University start an encampment asking for the university administration to cut ties with Israel due to its military offensive in Gaza, May 6, 2024. (Photo/JTA/Mohamed El Shemy/Anadolu via Getty Images)

World

European students are calling on their universities to divest from Israel. In many cases, they’re winning.

by Shira Li Bartov June 4, 2024June 4, 2024

A Hanukkah celebration at the Eiffel Tower in 2016. (Photo/Flickr-Chabad.org CC BY 2.0)

How a Hanukkah faux-pas ignited a political firestorm in France

by Robert Zaretsky December 11, 2023

A man walks along a building whose facade is covered with Stars of David in the Alesia district of Paris, Oct. 31, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Geoffroy van der Hasselt-AFP via Getty Images)

World

As antisemitism spikes across Europe, more fingers are pointing at Russia

by David I. Klein November 28, 2023

Israeli flags wave at a solidarity rally for Israel in Cologne, Germany, Nov. 5, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Christoph Reichwein-picture alliance via Getty Images)

News

As Europe’s Jews see a new era of antisemitism, governments struggle over how to respond

by Shira Li Bartov November 14, 2023

Panelists speak at the Summit of European Jewish Leaders in Berlin. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy JDC)

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Israeli political turmoil spills over into Berlin at summit of European Jewish leaders

by David I. Klein, Toby Axelrod and JTA March 29, 2023

Members of the European Union of Jewish Students stand outside the Bundestag, Germany's parliament, as they announce a lawsuit against Twitter over antisemitism on the platform. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy EUJS)

World

European Jewish student group sues Twitter over its handling of antisemitism and Holocaust denial

by Toby Axelrod and JTA January 25, 2023

Karin Sczech participates in the excavation at the medieval Jewish cemetery of Erfurt. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy TLDA Ronny Krause)

World

A German town built a granary atop its Jewish cemetery. Now the bones are yielding insights about Ashkenazi DNA.

by Toby Axelrod and JTA November 30, 2022

Giorgia Meloni is seen holding a placard that says, in Italian, "Thanks Italy," Sept. 26, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Valeria Ferraro-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)

Italian Jews worry and wait as Giorgia Meloni, far-right leader, prepares to take power

by Simone Somekh and JTA September 30, 2022September 30, 2022

Members of the Jewish community of Prague, the Czech Republic, attend the unveiling of a monument made of Jewish headstones at a local Jewish cemetery, Sept. 7, 2022. (Photo/Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Prague)

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Prague’s Jews build monument out of headstones plundered under communism

by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA September 13, 2022