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A view of a prison colony in the village of Shamkhal, Russia on 23 September, 2020. (Musa Salgereyev/TASS via Getty Images)

Jewish prisoner in Russian penal colony goes on hunger strike to get Shabbat off

Danil Beglets, who was arrested for pushing a police officer at a political rally last year, said authorities cut his rations and threatened to punish him unless he works on the Jewish day of rest.

Armenian leader accuses Israel of aiding ‘genocide’ against his people

Arayik Harutyunyan, leader of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, cited the Holocaust in condemning Israel’s sale of weapons to Azerbaijan.

A police officer walks into the scene of the murder of a history teacher in Éragny, France on Oct. 16, 2020. (Abdulmonam Eassa/AFP via Getty Images)

Following French teacher’s beheading, Jewish groups urge members to rally against Islamic terrorism

“The title of the demonstration over Samuel Paty’s murder should add the word ‘Islamist’ to its current title,” one Jewish group’s statement said.

In Hungary, the left and the far right have united to defeat Viktor Orban. He says Jewish groups are giving them a pass on anti-Semitism.

British journalist leaves BBC after discovery that he backed allegedly anti-Semitic rapper

Pedestrians walk past a campus building at the University of Heidelberg, Germany on March 1, 2004. (Wikimedia Commons)

German fraternity where Jewish member was assaulted has far-right ties, officials say

A view to a commercial area of the London borough of Hackney. (City of London)

British Supreme Court permits Orthodox housing associations to decline non-Jewish applicants

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks says he is being treated for cancer

A Chilean protest against a new constitution was filled with anti-Semitism

Danish Jewish cemetery vandalism was allegedly ordered by Swedish neo-Nazi, prosecutors say

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