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A painting featuring a large swastika at the Bog-Art gallery in Brussels, Belgium.(Courtesy of LBCA)

In Belgium, Jewish leaders worry that anti-Semitism has gone mainstream

The country is unusual in Western Europe both for the prevalence of anti-Semitism and the refusal of some in power to condemn it.

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German city withdraws award to artist over his backing for boycott Israel movement

In May, Germany passed a resolution calling the BDS movement anti-Semitic, becoming the first major European parliament to do so.

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Over 130,000 Jews of Sephardic heritage applied for Spanish citizenship under law of return

The application window for the Spanish law of return expired at the end of September.

Swastika and other graffiti painted on wall of former Krakow Ghetto

Celine Dion announces Israel concert on Jewish Valentine’s Day

Elderly Jews attending the Rosh Hashanah dinner at Hesed Triaspol, Transnistria in 2018. (Courtesy of JDC)

In some poor European countries, gefilte fish is sustenance — and a symbol of Rosh Hashanah

HIAS Greece translator Jalal Barezkai, right, assisting a Syrian refugee in an encampment near the Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesvos, Greece on May 9, 2018. (Bill Swersey/HIAS)

HIAS opens Brussels office to bring Jews and non-Jewish asylum seekers together

Ukraine president’s meeting with Mila Kunis offers no escape from the Trump scandal

The Grand Synagogue of Nice used to be packed on Shabbat, but today there are more empty seats than occupied ones. (Photo courtesy of Consistoire Nice/Henri Belhassen)

Hit by terror and a sluggish economy, Nice’s once-vibrant Jewish community faces uncertain future

How the late French president Jacques Chirac started France’s reckoning with the Holocaust

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