Heidenau councillors want future brass plaques honoring Holocaust victims kept out of town streets and moved to a cemetery; Jewish leaders warn the plan would turn remembrance into forgetting as conservatives join the far-right AfD initiative

Woman in her 60s struck by metal pole while building sukkah in Netanya; after treating her, MDA team completes it as holiday gesture

Jerusalem rabbi descended from famed Iraqi Jewish sages led Yeshivat HaShalom, becoming a leading authority on Jewish mysticism and sought-after source of counsel and blessings

The doll’s light-up menorah and holiday sweater were meant to celebrate Hanukkah, but online discussion quickly turned to whether her more prominent nose embraces Jewish representation or echoes an antisemitic stereotype

Rabbi Judah Alkalai called for Jewish national representation, diplomacy, organized immigration, land purchases and a Hebrew revival more than half a century before Herzl; one of his congregants was Herzl’s grandfather