While the heads of state held the spotlight, Swedish media reports in recent weeks have told stories of the local Jews who are continuing to leave Malmö, some after suffering antisemitism ...
MALMO, Sweden (JTA) — When Carinne Sjoberg dissolved the Jewish Community of Umea in northern Sweden, she knew it would send shockwaves far beyond the small congregation that she had spent ...
Saskia Pantell was living in Israel and traveling to celebrate the Rosh Hashanah holiday when she was informed that she was the target of an assassination plot. At first she thought it was a joke ...
The Swedish government has failed to prevent religion-based hate crime against Muslims and Jews. In 2021, Muslims bore the brunt of more than half (51%) of all hate crimes against religious groups ...
Teodorescu Mawe’s support for Israel and Jewish causes has grown amid rising Middle Eastern immigration and escalating antisemitism in Sweden and Europe. Her July 2024 appointment as Sweden’s ...
Hebrew scholar and Jewish academic Irene Lancaster reflects on challenges experienced by European Jews 80 years on from the ...
Among 34,000 people in the town of Oświęcim is just one Jew – a young Israeli named Hila Weisz-Gut. It’s an interesting choice of residence, given the most famous feature of the town is its proximity ...
The NMR also targeted Jews in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Iceland with antisemitic campaigns during Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Hebrew calendar in September 2020. Attacks by NMR members ...
Within a month of his arrival, Wallenberg had come up with a plan to save Jewish lives. He persuaded the Swedish government to issue protective Swedish passports to Hungarian Jews. By January of ...