After standing for nearly 25 years on the corner of Fairfax Avenue and Beverly Boulevard, a statue of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jewish lives in the Holocaust, will be rededicated on Aug. 5.
The conviction in Cyprus of a Hezbollah operative plotting to attack Israelis could undercut efforts by the terrorist group to carry out additional attacks outside the Middle East.
About 160 Swedes and Danes attended the first inter-Scandinavian Limmud Jewish learning event.
Kippah-wearing Jews and non-Jews are expected to march Saturday in Sweden as a sign of solidarity with Malmo\’s Jews.
The president of Sweden’s Jewish communities said the country’s tourism agency should replace this week\’s guest operator of the national Twitter account.
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.
Anti-Semitic comments made by Malmo Mayor Ilmar Reepalu were \”wrong,\” the head of his Swedish Social Democratic Party said while expressing confidence in Reepalu.
More than 200 professors and students from Sweden have signed on to a call for an academic boycott of Israeli institutions.
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