French President Francois Hollande unveiled a memorial plaque outside the Paris-area kosher supermarket where an Islamist killed four Jews last year. Hollande’s visit on Tuesday morning to the Hyper Cacher launched the official commemorations of the first anniversary of three terrorist attacks that rocked France last January. The plaque he unveiled listed the names of…
No one questions when Jews are killed because they are Jewish, the editor of Charlie Hebdo wrote in a special edition of the French satirical magazine marking the first anniversary of a terror attack on its staff. “We are so used to Jews being killed because they are Jewish,” Gerard Biard wrote in an editorial…
The fighting in Syria will not affect Russia’s decision to keep Hamas and Hezbollah off its list of terrorist organizations, a senior Kremlin official said. Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told the Interfax news agency last week that while his country concurs with the United States’ definition of some organizations that are operating in Syria…
Ayoob Kara, a deputy Israeli cabinet minister, used to double as an unofficial intermediary with the few of his fellow Arab citizens who have left to join Islamic State insurgents in Syria or Iraq. Negotiating discreetly through relatives and go-betweens, he would offer them reduced jail terms if they returned to Israel, cooperated with security…
The leader of the Islamic State threatened Israel and Jews in a taped message that is said to be from him. “The Jews thought we forgot Palestine and that they had distracted us from it. Not at all, Jews. We did not forget Palestine for a moment. With the help of Allah, we will not…
Trigger warning: This column may offend some readers. It concerns profiling of Muslims (for terrorism) and of Jews (for espionage). The issues aren’t as different as you might wish. Proceed at your own risk. Let’s begin with New York dentist Gershon Pincus. A Brooklyn-born Orthodox Jew, age 62, he applied in 2013 for a part-time…
CRIF, the umbrella group of France’s Jewish communities, called on the general public to attend a commemoration on the first anniversary of the slaying of four Jews in a Paris kosher supermarket. CRIF made the call in a statement published Monday on its website, which said the event planned for Jan. 9 at the Hyper…
JERUSALEM — Israeli President Reuven Rivlin hosted dozens of child victims of terrorist attacks in a celebration for their bar and bat mitzvahs. The 58 children celebrated their Jewish coming of age in an event at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem. The event was part of a day arranged by the Association of Victims of…
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