Diaspora Jewry
As of early May, Jews make up about 5 percent of the 25,987 reported fatalities in France as a result of complications due to COVID-19.
The new arrivals, from a year-old baby to a 66-year-old, hail from New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Florida and Illinois.
The president cited signing an executive order in December combating anti-Semitism, especially directed towards college campuses, as how his administration has been fighting bigotry against Jews.
An earlier flight from St. Petersburg with 26 Russian Jews marked the 30th anniversary of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem’s sponsorship of aliyah from the former Soviet Union.
Nearly 80 percent of Israelis are sabras and more than one-third are minors, according to data released by the Central Bureau of Statistics.
The Middle East media monitoring organization launched a new website in response to rising anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom.
The 2020 winners were chosen in the following categories: science and medicine; community and nonprofit; education; global impact; culture, art and sports; and young leadership.
“The good news at the end of a dramatic week of twists and turns that would make Shakespeare blush is that your ‘Jewish News’ is back,” announced editor Richard Ferrer.
More than 50 synagogues and some 30 community centers or Jewish schools across the globe were targeted for anti-Semitic attacks in 2019.
Roughly half of those surveyed said they were worried that a person wearing a yarmulke or other display of Judaism would be physically assaulted or verbally harassed in public.
According to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, there were 14.7 million Jews worldwide at the end of 2018, which is 100,000 short of the 1925 figures and far short of the 16.6 million estimated to have been alive on the eve of the Second World War in 1939.
The staff, which merged in February in an effort to keep British Jewish journalism financially afloat, will be laid off.
