Assailants damage Kol HaNeshama days after youths pelted worshipers with eggs; Reform movement says recent incidents cannot be treated as isolated

Some 540,000 pupils expected back in classrooms, many housed in tents and damaged buildings, as families struggle to afford basic school supplies

Netanyahu set to address General Assembly Thursday, joining Trump, Zelensky and Pezeshkian among 130-odd world leaders to descend on New York for Guterres’s final UN gathering

Local investigating unit indicates Sons of Jacob Synagogue was deliberately targeted; synagogue says shooting took place at start of Sunday Yom Kippur eve services, nobody hurt in the building

AfD wins almost 40% in eastern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania; party seen by Jewish groups as harboring antisemitism leads in national opinion polls but has been kept from power by the other main parties' refusal to work with it

Seen by Jewish leaders as harboring antisemitism, AfD has consolidated its place as country's most popular party; Chancellor Merz is down, but not (yet) out

Daughter of Turkish migrants calls Mamdani 'great role model,' says she wants to foster city's Jewish life; recent party campaign concert featured performer's 'Death to the IDF' chants, call for intidfada

Leading far-right candidate predicts chancellor 'won't make it to the end of the year'; Merz cancels trip to UN, as his junior coalition partner says 'things can't go on'