Jews News

Can the United Nations help South Africans stop farm murders? Afriforum will be presenting a petition as supporting evidence to a report on farm murders, which will be submitted to the UN Forum For Minority Issues in November this year.

Tel Aviv - Tragedies and horrific events such as the Boston Marathon bombings, the murder of 20 children in Sandy Hook, or 9/11 seem to create "a cottage industry" of conspiracies claiming that Jews or Israelis are behind these terrible incidents.

New York - Positions, utterances, and behaviors by religious leaders about other religions are more important than most people think.

In an interview on Dutch TV, a group of teenage Turkish Muslim immigrants expressed without any visible restraint or discomfort feelings of hatred toward Jews and approval of the Nazi World War II policy of extermination.

Budapest - Last Sunday, February 1, the foundation stone for the first new synagogue in Hungary in 80 years was laid in the Csepel district of the Hungarian capital, Budapest against a background of rising anti-Semitism.

Coalition talks have begun in Israel following the general election results. The election results for a new government in Israel revealed deep divisions within the Jewish state’s political life.

Lyon - Disciplinary proceedings have been started against French barrister, Alexis Dubruel, based in Lyon, who had demanded that a judge be disqualified from hearing a case, where Dubruel acted for one of the parties, because of the judge’s Jewish last name.

A website with a name searchable index to birth, marriage and death records of Jews from Poland from 1808 to 1911 exists through the efforts of Jewish Records Indexing - Poland, Stanley Diamond of Montreal, and an international group of volunteers.

Budapest - A far-right member of the Hungarian parliament is demanding that his government draw up a list of Jews who threaten the nation's security.

As countries mobilize to mediate ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas, the fighting between the two groups continues as more lives are claimed.