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Andrei Zeltzer stands with a hunting rifle behind the door of his home in Minsk, Belarus on Sept. 29, 2021. (Maria Uspenskaya)

Death of Jewish dissident during home raid by Belarus security forces prompts protests and arrests

Andrei Zeltzer, 31, worked for an American IT company and, according to the authoritarian Lukashenko government, was shot after he resisted arrest.

Bahrain signed a treaty with Israel. Now it wants to make friends with American Jews.

Shaikh Abdulla bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, a Bahrain Foreign Ministry official, met with rabbis and Jewish leaders in New York to encourage them to invest in the kingdom and travel there.

Hundreds protest German hotel after Jewish celebrity says he was denied room over Star of David pendant

Hundreds showed up to protest antisemitism in front of a German hotel accused of antisemitism.

Auschwitz museum hit with antisemitic graffiti

EU publishes ‘strategic plan’ for countering antisemitism

The ‘Spanish Schindler’ saved 5,200 Jews during the Holocaust. Now Spain wants to find their descendants.

Scientist David Julius, whose grandparents fled antisemitism in Czarist Russia, wins Nobel Prize in medicine

A view of a main street in Bristol, UK. (Wikimedia Commons)

UK professor who called Jewish students ‘pawns’ of Israel fired over comments

2 years after the synagogue attack in Halle, Germany, young Jews gather to turn mourning into activism

Victor Esses onstage for his one-man show

A Brazilian-Lebanese-Jewish playwright explores the nostalgic Beirut of his family’s past

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