syrian refugees

Polish man charged with burning Jew effigy at anti-Muslim protest

The defendant from the city of Wroclaw faces up to two years in jail for alleged incitement to hate.

Jude Law reads Jewish author’s Holocaust-era letter at refugee event

The British actor, whose recent films include “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” read Lion Feuchtwanger’s 1935 open letter to the Nazis occupying his Berlin home.

Refugees in Greece get medical equipment from Jewish-funded group

The Afya Foundation has already dispatched a container full of aid to hospitals and rescue organizations on the island of Lesbos.

Israel

9th-century synagogue in Aleppo sustains minor damage in Syria fighting

Global

AJC in Berlin urges action to change Arab refugees’ anti-democratic values

Global

Lord George Weidenfeld, philanthropist who rescued Iraqi and Syrian refugees, dies at 96

Global

Will 2016 be the year of the female Orthodox rabbi?

Israel

Sacha Baron Cohen, Isla Fisher donate $1 million to help Syrians

Global

Syrians to be housed in Dutch former village for Jews who fled Nazis

United States

Echoing Jewish groups, Obama likens Syrian refugees to Jews fleeing 1930s Europe

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