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Former French lawmaker: Germany ‘took our Jews and gave us Arabs’

Patrick Devedjian, a right-winger who served in the Chirac and Sarkozy governments, later wrote on Twitter, “My humorous jest was misplaced.”

Jeremy Corbyn, socialist seen as hostile to Israel, elected head of Britain’s Labor Party

Corbyn defended an Anglican minister who posted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, and has described Hamas and Hezbollah as “friends.”

Netanyahu to U.K. chief rabbi: ‘Settlements are not the issue’

(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed concerns raised by Britain’s chief rabbi about the growth of West Bank settlements. In a London meeting with United Kingdom Jewish leaders Wednesday evening, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis told Netanyahu that friends of Israel approach him with the request to “help us help you,” by limiting settlement […]

French Jewish groups form task force on refugee relief

Moscow’s Reform rabbinic institute welcomes first class

Chabad Russia’s competitors open massive new synagogue east of Moscow

Palestinian flag to be raised at U.N. headquarters

Jewish journalist sees refugees bringing out the best in Germans

Netanyahu on settlement labels: We remember Europe marking Jewish products

Jewish teen assaulted near Paris

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