Yom Kippur in Tehran
It is just after dawn on October 2, 2014—two days before the start of Yom Kippur—and Tehran’s notoriously bad traffic is already clogging the roads,
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Europe Through the Lens of Anti-SemitismToday, many historic threats have diminished or disappeared. There is no Hitler, Stalin or Mussolini to threaten European Jewry. There is no government or society seeking to annihilate
England: Worries in a Golden AgeNatalie, a mother of three, was chatting to a worker at a children’s play center in the heart of Jewish London when a party of
France: Kippot Under Baseball CapsFrance has the largest Jewish and Muslim populations living side by side outside Israel. Over the past six decades, tensions between the two have increased.
Hungary: The Politics of HateRecent research shows that the percentage of hardcore anti-Semites in Hungary has more than doubled in the past two decades to somewhere between 21 and 28 percent of
Sweden: The Mainstream Takes NoticeThe city of Malmö in Sweden's south is just a 20-minute train ride from central Copenhagen. With a large Muslim population, it has acquired a global reputation for
Germany: Is There a Cycle of Solidarity?With the recent terrorist attacks against Jews in Paris and Copenhagen, Jews in Germany, too, are jittery. They reflexively ask themselves—as during every crisis—whether it
Conserve, ProtectIzmir, Turkey, has long boasted a rich, successful Jewish community. A project driven by locals aims to preserve the city's glorious old synagogues.
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