JERUSALEM (Israel Hayom) — In recent months, Israel and Russia have been forging a unique partnership at the United Nations. Amid the backdrop of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Israeli U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon and his Russian counterpart, Vasily Nebenzya, decided to join forces and convene a historic event to mark the […]

LONDON (AP) — London Mayor Sadiq Khan pledged 300,000 pounds ($390,000) to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation in Poland on Monday, arguing that the institution plays a vital role in educating Londoners visiting the site on the horrors of the Holocaust. London joins Paris and dozens of nations in giving money to preserve the site and the […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s top diplomat acknowledged Wednesday that Iranians “were lied to” for days after the Islamic Republic accidentally shot down a Ukrainian jetliner. The admission came as new surveillance footage purported to show two surface-to-air missiles 20 seconds apart shred the airplane and kill all 176 people aboard. The downing […]

LONDON (JNS) — The Board of Deputies of British Jewry on Sunday unveiled “10 pledges” that it calls on each of the Labour Party’s candidates for leader and deputy leader to accept in order to “begin healing its relationship with the Jewish community” following the anti-Semitism crisis the party faced under the leadership of Jeremy […]

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — Hundreds of mainly Honduran migrants started walking and hitching rides Wednesday from the city of San Pedro Sula, in a bid to form the kind of migrant caravan that reached the U.S. border in 2018. Some migrants waved Honduran flags and shouted slogans against President Juan Orlando Hernández as […]

WALL STREET (AP) — Stocks rose in afternoon trading on Wall Street Wednesday after the signing of an initial trade deal between the U.S. and China. President Donald Trump and China’s chief negotiator, Liu He, signed the “Phase 1″ deal before a group of corporate executives and press at the White House. The pact eases […]

SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) — An Australian woman has taken down the Nazi flag she was flying from her home following a joint effort by neighbors and local police, as well as a Jewish member of Parliament. Cheryl Lawdron told reporters that she had German ancestry and had the right to fly the flag featuring a […]

MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin accepted the resignation of his prime minister Wednesday after proposing constitutional amendments that could herald his intention to carve out a position that would let him stay at Russia’s helm after his presidency ends. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who served as a placeholder president in 2008-2012 to allow […]

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A box resembling a home-made bomb was left outside a Dutch kosher restaurant where several anti-Semitic attacks have occurred. The cardboard box, bearing the logo of the Heineken beer brand, was found Wednesday morning outside the HaCarmel restaurant in southern Amsterdam. It had masking tape fastening wires and a black electric trigger […]

PHNOM PENH (JTA) – Members of the Cambodian royal family gathered last month at the Raffles Hotel Le Royal in Phnom Penh for a celebration. There was music, traditional Cambodian dance performances and plenty of food. The occasion? The coming-of-age party of the granddaughter of one of the princesses. Well, a bat mitzvah to be […]