The number of antisemitic incidents in Canada spiked in 2018, according to a new study published on Monday.
The 2018 Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents commissioned by the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada showed 2,041 incidents of antisemitism took place last year, a 16.5 percent increase from 2017.
Among the events recorded were a group of teenagers who set off fireworks next to Hasidic Jews, two elementary school students assaulted, a high school student mocked for having a “Jewish nose,” a threatening phone call saying, “You Jews deserve to die,” and a teenage student threatened by another teen who said he would “shoot up a Jewish school” and told her, “Go back into the ovens.”

Washington – U.S. President Donald Trump, three of his children and one of his companies filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Deutsche Bank and Capital One Financial Corp to block the banks from complying with federal subpoenas investigating his financial dealings. The federal lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court’s Southern District of New York, [...]

120 lawmakers will pledge allegiance to the State of Israel and promise to fulfill their obligations as MKs

Despite apologizing on Sunday for running an anti-Semitic cartoon that ran in its international edition on Thursday, The New York Times published another anti-Semitic cartoon in the same edition over the weekend.
The weekend cartoon by Norwegian cartoonist Roar Hagen depicts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with sinister eyes taking a picture of himself with a selfie-stick, carrying in what appears to be an empty desert a tablet featuring the Israeli flag painted on it.

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On 13 April 1944, sisters Susan-Zsuzsa and Lili Klein wrote their father Hugo a short letter: “Dear Daddy, We are well – goodbye.” Hugo had been drafted into a forced labor battalion in 1943; his wife Matild had stayed with their two daughters in their hometown of Hencida in the Bihar district of Hungary.

Hélène Le Gal summoned to Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem over statement by Paris's outgoing Washington ambassador; Gérard Araud says he was referring to the West Bank only

US online retail giant reaches out to some local retailers, offering a new local Amazon platform to sell their products via delivery program in Israel

The phenomenon of illegal Palestinian construction in Yehuda and Shomron continues to gain momentum, including cutting roads, construction of agricultural roads, and the construction of new structures.

Jason Greenblatt calls on newspaper to apologize to Netanyahu and Trump; NYT drops syndication service that supplied anti-Semitic caricature