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 Ariel Muzicant speaks during a conference on anti-Semitism in Vienna, Austria, on November 21, 2018.

President of EJC to ‘Post’: Illiberal democracy threatens European Jewish life

By ELDAD BECK
 EUROPEAN UNION flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels.

23 EU countries have adopted national strategies to combat antisemitism

 EU FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF Josep Borrell arrives to attend an EU-Israel Association Council in Brussels in 2022. ‘We really want to see Europe standing up and recognizing the right of Israel to protect itself,’ Szijjarto says.

EU Council adopts declaration to combat 'alarmingly high' antisemitism, foster Jewish life

 People demonstrate outside the Stockholm District Court as they wait for the verdict in the case of Hamid Noury, a former Iranian prosecution official accused of crimes against international law and murder in Iran in 1988, in Stockholm, Sweden

Sweden's police investigate shooting near Israeli target in Gothenburg, no injuries reported

By REUTERS
 LAUDER FELLOWS (from left) Hannah Sarkin, Daniella Springer, Nora Monasheri, the writer, and Claire Frankel participate in a World Jewish Congress diplomacy trip in Brussels.

The secret to Jewish survival: How the Jewish community thrives through collective care

By DANIELLE SOBKIN
Demonstrators set fire to an Israeli flag during an anti-Israeli rally in Stockholm January 10, 2009. Several thousand demonstrators marched to the Israeli embassy, protesting against the military action in the Gaza Strip. REUTERS

What does the future look like for Scandinavian Jews?

By YIGAL NISELL
 THE HOSTING GERMAN President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is flanked by leaders of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan at a meeting in Berlin, last year.

Central Asia remains a beacon of stability, tolerance and understanding

By Eduard Yakubov
 The inauguration ceremony of Rabbi Yoni Wieder as chief rabbi of Ireland was held at the Dublin Hebrew Synagogue, May 21, 2024.

At 28, Ireland’s new chief rabbi is leading an aging population in a time of turmoil

By SHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA
Soccer Football - Europa Conference League - Final - Fiorentina v West Ham United - Prague, Czech Republic - June 7, 2023 Police officers are seen in the Old Town ahead of the match

Antisemitic incidents rise in Czech Republic in 2023 by 90% -report

 People hold a banner that reads "The sons and daughters of the Jews deported from France" during a demonstration against antisemitism organised by the two heads of the French Parliament. Paris, France November 12, 2023.

Jewish leaders in Europe want to stay there despite pessimism about antisemitism, survey finds

By SHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA
 Marine Le Pen

Who'd have thought Jews would fear the far Left more than the Right?

 MEMBERS OF the European Parliament vote during a plenary session last year, in Strasbourg, France. Recent election results in France, the UK, and for the European Parliament cast a pall over the future of the Jews in Europe, says the writer.

As Europe becomes Islamized, Jews should jump ship and move to Israel

 The author's grandparents and his mother in front of their building in Paris, ca. 1940. At rear, surface weather analysis map shows weather fronts in and around Normandy on June 5, 1944.

How D-Day saved Europe, and my family, from the Nazis

By Gerard Leval
 Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky.

Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, influential Chabad leader, dies at 74

 The meeting of the Standing Committee in France.

The Standing Committee of the 'Conference of Rabbis of Europe' meets in Lyon

By JOSH ARONSON
 Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt

Prestigious Charlemagne Prize awarded to President of Conference of European Rabbis

 A member of the audience holds an Israeli flag during the second semi-final of the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest, in Malmo, Sweden, May 9, 2024.

Before Eden Golan sang at Eurovision, Jewish teens from across Germany performed at 'Jewrovision'

By TOBY AXELROD/JTA
 DEMONSTRATORS HOLD placards at a march against antisemitism, in November in London. The writer asks: Why should we fight to remain in societies that at worst seem hostile to us and at best seem indifferent?

When is it time to leave the Diaspora?