The horrific attack on a German synagogue in Halle on Yom Kippur was the second in less than a week – a lethal turn of events that has seemed inevitable as antisemitic crimes have risen in recent years.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will hold meetings in European capitals June 4-7. He will confer with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister Theresa May, and French President Emmanuel Macron, and will attend several events for the France-Israel cross-cultural season.
As gay pride events take place around the world this month, battles over intersectionality and clashes of identities are unfolding as well, often excluding Jews who support the Jewish state, as most do. Three Jewish leaders share how Jewish activists can speak out on a range of social justice causes without forsaking their Jewish identity.
To even begin to solve the problem of antisemitism, there must be clarity about what it is and what it isn’t. That's why the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) built international consensus around a non-legally binding definition.