Tag: Belgium

Officials in Belgium are relieved for now: 'We've averted a Charlie Hebdo here" after police shoot and kill 2 ISIS-linked terrorists in a counter-terror raid.

Two people are dead and a third wounded in a counter terror raid in Belgium.

The Flemish Minister for Animal Welfare Ben Weyts has reversed his call for a ban on Jewish ritual slaughter in Belgium.

Now will there be advice that Jews should not anger anti-Semites and not walk to synagogue?

Freedom of speech does not protect "falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater.” – U.S. Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1919.

SWIFT has announced it will not buckle to BDS pressure to suspend Israel from its international transaction system.

European rabbi slams assault on Jewish ritual practice as “key tool for anti-Semites."

A good Jewish boy has a Bar Mitzvah at 13. A good Muslim fanatic joins the ISIS.

Almost four months after a terror attack left four people dead, the Jewish Museum in Brussels has reopened.

Arsonists set fire to a Brussels synagogue on Tuesday, that was previously firebombed in 2010, but Jewish officials are not ready to declare the...

The shooter "probably acted alone” – Belgium deputy prosecutor Ine Van Wymersch after the murderous attack in June 2013.

A Hareidi family from Antwerp are packing up their belongings as they prepare to make Aliya from Belgium on August 07, 2014. Europe has seen...

Antisemitism rears its ugly head in Europe, again.

Mehdi Nemmouch has conditioned his acceptance of extradition to Belgium to stand trial there, on the condition he won't be extradited to Israel.

The Jewish Museum in Brussels is set to open in less than two weeks but Belgium's commitment to security there is not clear.

Belgium will join the Jews in fighting anti-Semitism in Europe.

A crowd of approximately 2,000 gathered for a silent vigil in front of the Jewish museum in Brussels where an unidentified shooter killed four people.

For the first time ever, neo-Nazi parties won seats in two national elections for the European Parliament. One was German.

Four people were killed in a shooting at the Brussel's Jewish Museum on Saturday morning.

A Belgian watchdog on anti-Semitism warned it was preparing to take legal action against online propagators of a new anti-Semitic joke about the Holocaust. The...

On Shabbat morning, a Jewish man in Antwerp, Belgium, on his way to synagogue was beaten by a Moslem. The Moslem began to beat the...

Belgian police have arrested a man whom they suspect of planning an attack against Israeli diplomats in Brussels. The police department of Uccle, the Brussels...

I was entering 3 months in which my connection to my Judaism would be up to me, and I feared I would lose everything.

It is not enough that the US does not allow “Jerusalem, Israel” as a birthplace on passports. Now Brussels does not allow “Jerusalem” as a baby’s name, although Bethlehem is totally kosher.

The last remaining Jewish school in central Brussels has instructed its students to remove their kippot in the school's neighborhood and wait until they are inside the building to put it back on.

The Israel Tennis Association has been fined more than $13,000 for refusing to play a Davis Cup match against Belgium on Yom Kippur this...

Bitter anti-Israel rock musician Roger Waters used a giant, pig-shaped balloon emblazoned with a Star of David and symbols of dictatorial regimes during a...

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein ruled that in order to achieve complete equality, the draft law must be clipped of two major benefits for young Haredi recruits.

A Belgian court has ordered a school in Antwerp to enroll the children of Moshe Aryeh Friedman, an Orthodox Jew ostracized for his anti-Zionist...

The question is whether to charge the attackers of the Antwerp police. Anti-Semites attacked a woman and break her nose. As an ambulance took her to the hospital, police laughed with the attackers.