US Secretary of State John Kerry discussed the recent sharp increase in anti-Semitic rhetoric, vandalism, and violence facing many Jewish communities worldwide, at a meeting with a group of American and European Jewish community leaders in Washington.

The World Jewish Congress (WJC) will hold its Governing Board meeting later this month in Berlin to discuss the sharp rise in anti-Semitic attacks and the growing hostility towards Israel.

The Mayor of the Greek northern city of Thessaloniki, Yiannis Boutaris, who has been reelected, wore a yellow Star of David at his swearing-in ceremony in the city town hall last week as a reminder that 90 percent of the city's population was murdered by the Nazis during WWIII.

Two Muslim girls, aged 15 and 17, were arrested last week week, after authorities uncovered a plan to carry out a suicide bombing inside the Great Synagogue of Lyon, reports said.

A young Jewish couple was attacked Monday in an apparent anti-Semitic incident on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

Anti-Israel protesters demonstrated outside Geneva’s main synagogue.

Italy’s capital was blanketed with posters, signed by an extreme-right group, calling for the boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.

Riots and protests in France and elsewhere expose a previously cloistered reporter to new levels of Jew hatred.

A controversial British MP has declared his Bradford constituency an ''Israel-free zone'', in comments that are bound to invite further allegations of racism.A controversial British MP has declared his Bradford constituency an ''Israel-free zone'', in comments that are bound to invite further allegations of racism.

Joseph Raksin, a 60-year-old Orthodox rabbi, was shot and killed on his way to synagogue in North Miami Beach on Saturday morning.