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A tram arriving at Garibaldi Square in Nice, France on August 10, 2010. (Myrabella/Wikimedia Commons)

Islamists have declared war on France, Jewish community leader says following fatal church stabbings

A man shouting about Allah beheaded one woman outside a church in Nice and killed two additional victims before police shot him.

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, right, and his successor Keir Starmer talk to journalists in Brussels, Belgium on March 21, 2019. (Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

Corbyn suspended from Labour after report finds the British party committed ‘unlawful harassment’ against Jews

The U.K. government’s report is the most comprehensive review of the party’s anti-Semitism to date. Jeremy Corbyn called it “dramatically overstated.”

A man stands inside the Riga Ghetto Museum in Riga, Latvia on Jan. 11, 2014. (Fishman/Ullstein via Getty Images)

Riga Holocaust museum to remain open after city waives rent

The municipality had recently said that the ghetto memorial in the Latvian capital would need to pay $12,000 in monthly rent.

France is cracking down on radical Islam – with the blessing of its Jewish minority

Hamas releases two men held since April for speaking with Israelis online

Turkey’s president invokes Holocaust in slamming France’s crackdown on radical Islam

In an Arab first, Bahraini institution joins with State Dept. to combat anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism

The Albanian flag flies over Skanderbeg Square in Tirana, Albania on May 12, 2010. (Flickr/Thomas Quine)

Albania adopts International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism

For the first time ever, Stockholm has a Swedish-born rabbi

Both sides of a commemorative 10 euro coin celebrating the 300th birthday of the Vilna Gaon in Lithuania. (Courtesy of the Bank of Lithuania)

Lithuania mints euro coin with Hebrew letters

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