Diaspora Jewry
Israeli Minister Amichai Chikli calls on Jews to leave Belgium, saying country no longer guaranteeing their safety in the face of “Islamist threats.”
We are preparing “in case Iran targets Israeli or Jewish institutions,” Chancellor Friedrich Merz said.
Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau ordered security chiefs to increase security of a slew of places that are in need of “special vigilance.”
“Recent developments increase the likelihood that terrorist elements will seek to carry out acts of revenge against Israeli and Jewish targets.”
“There are 90,000 people that are still waiting for somebody to reach out to them,” Rabbi Shlomo Köves said of Hungary’s Jewish community.
A hotel scheduled to host the Conference of Rabbis canceled a day after a cabinet minister had said the event would legitimize “a genocidal creation.”
“Where is the outrage for these two young victims?” Rep. Mike Johnson said. “We must stand up and protect our Jewish brothers and sisters.”
Zvi-Hirsh (Grisha) Zovergzde, 32-year-old from Odessa, was killed fighting Russian forces on the Kherson front. Estimates suggest that more than 200 Ukrainian Jewish fighters have perished during the conflict.
“Everyone will have their own viewpoints on certain matters, but there’s a lot that we’ll be united on,” Herbert Block, of the American Zionist Movement, told JNS.
“This is a world leader in human rights, and this is what they do?” said Philip Khazzam, descendant of the property’s owners.
A Palestinian man who was in France illegally allegedly assaulted Rabbi Elie Lemmel with a chair, sending him to hospital, just days after he was assaulted by three men in a separate incident.
Gordon Gallagher, of the U.S. District Court in Colorado, ordered all parties to appear at a June 13 hearing.
