Diaspora Jews

Memory is our anchor in the unfolding saga of the Jewish people - opinion

Memory is essential – it deepens our experience and helps build our shared identity. In Israel, it is even more vital, reminding us that we are part of a larger, unfolding saga.

COLLECTIVE MEMORY: Lasting glue
Data on Antisemitic Incidents

CAM Weekly Antisemitism Report – FBI Declares Antisemitism At All Time High

Olim from North America arrive on a special " Aliyah flight" to the Ben Gurion airport

Antisemitism in diaspora signals aliyah, with tectonic implications for Israel's economy - opinion

JEWISH MUSEUM Vienna is currently running an exhibition presented as ‘an intervention about the world since October 7, 2023.’ The exhibition’s title – ‘No Room for Discussion?’

Vienna's Jewish museum sees chilling drop in visitors amid rising antisemitism


Jewish man physically assaulted, kippah thrown to the ground in Montreal, police investigating

The victim was struck multiple times, with footage showing the perpetrator leaving before officers arrived at the scene. It also showed the suspect throwing the man's kippah to the ground.

 Downtown Montreal as seen from Mount Royal.

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Jews are not a color; we are a global people - opinion

Judaism is a family rooted in faith, strengthened by diversity, and united in a covenant that binds us across cultures, languages, and generations.

ETHIOPIAN JEWS take part in a prayer of the Sigd holiday in Jerusalem last November. The God of Israel sees the heart, not the color of one’s skin, the writer affirms.

'Death to the IDF': American IDF soldier's family home in St. Louis vandalized, cars torched

“I am outraged. Antisemitic violence has no place in America, not in St. Louis and not anywhere,” Terrell commented. 

Graffiti spraypainted at home of American IDF serviceman, St. Louis, Missouri, August 6, 2025.

Oxford University college launches £5k Tikvah Scholarships for Jewish, Israeli undergraduates

The Tikvah Scholarships will provide a total of four Jewish and/or Israeli (of any or no faith) undergraduates studying at the college with £5,000 for the year.

Students queue to sit a university degree finals examination at Oxford University in Oxford, Britain, June 6, 2025.

J Street head says he was ‘persuaded’ by arguments that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

Ben-Ami’s reversal aligns him with many prominent left-wing Jewish voices who have made the accusation, which Israel denies and Trump rejected Sunday.

Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of J Street, speaks at the group's national conference in 2018.

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Grapevine, August 1, 2025: Do a DNA test and unite with relatives you never knew you had

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

HOME DNA testing kit, with a saliva (spit or cheek swab) tube collector and return shipping box.

New York Jews must use the London playbook to stop Mamdani - comment

British Jews have already shown the road map for defeating a politician whose campaign flirts with antisemitism; New York’s Jews should dust it off before November.

 NEW YORK CITY mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani waves at the crowd during the 2025 Pride March, June 29, 2025.

Six to stand trial over 1982 attack on Jewish restaurant in Paris

The bombing and shooting assault on the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in the heart of the Jewish district of the Marais quarter in August 1982 killed six and wounded over 20.

Paris' Mayor Anne Hidalgo delivers a speech at the site of the so called "Rue des Rosiers" or "Chez Jo Goldenberg restaurant" attack, in Paris, on August 9, 2024

What is needed: Rabbis who stand up for Jews - opinion

Rabbis, of all people, should know that Israel must be constantly vigilant and on guard against the very real and constant threats to its existence.

 Lisa Turnquist of Louisville, Colorado, lays flowers and a flag at the site of the attack outside the Boulder County Courthouse on June 2, 2025 in Boulder.