Danish, Swedish Jews hold first joint Limmud conference

Published on March 14, 2013

About 160 Swedes and Danes attended the first inter-Scandinavian Limmud Jewish learning event.

No hate crime conviction in Malmö in two years, despite record number of incidents

Published on January 9, 2013

Despite a record number of complaints about hate crimes in the Swedish city of Malmö, not a single person was convicted of such offenses in over two years, according to a recent report.

No suspects in Malmö JCC attack, police say

Published on November 16, 2012

Police in Malmö, Sweden have no suspects in September’s attack on the city’s Jewish community center.

Malmo police see no reason to call JCC attack a hate crime

Published on October 3, 2012

Police in Malmo, Sweden, said they had “no indication” that a recent attack on the offices of the local Jewish community was a hate crime.

Attack on Malmo’s Jewish community triggers solidarity rallies

Published on October 2, 2012

Some 70 demonstrators reportedly gathered in Malmö, Sweden, outside the local Jewish community center, to show solidarity with the Jewish community following an attack on its offices.

700 out of 14 million: Why the fate of Malmö’s Jews matters

Published on September 28, 2012

I can’t say I was shocked by the phone call and emails from Scandinavia that I received one night after Yom Kippur, telling me that the Jewish Community Center in Malmö, Sweden, had been attacked with an explosive device and bricks through its reinforced entrance just after midnight on Sept. 28. No casualties, thank G-d, this time.

Swedish police arrest two after explosion rocks Jewish building

Published on September 28, 2012

Swedish police have arrested two men in connection with an explosion that rocked a Jewish community building in Malmo.

Attack on Jewish community in Sweden follows surge of hate crimes

Published on September 28, 2012

A Jewish community building in Malmö, Sweden was attacked overnight between Thursday and Friday with explosives and bricks.

September 29, 2012

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on September 28, 2012

Swedish minister rebukes Malmo mayor as ‘ignorant and bigoted’

Published on April 26, 2012

The mayor of Malmo makes "recurring ignorant and bigoted statements," a Swedish minister said after meeting with the U.S. envoy to combat anti-Semitism.

My Shabbat in Malmo

Published on March 15, 2011

From 1932 to 1946, Rabbi Eliezer Berlinger served as the chief rabbi of the Malmo Jewish Congregation. The most important events in the history of this Jewish community in Sweden took place on his watch. There were the numerous Danish Jews who fled deportation and certain death by the Nazis with the help of their righteous Christian neighbors who reached Malmo in 1943 and 1944.