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(JTA) — Jewish communities in two countries were reeling this weekend after a shooting just outside the Old City of Jerusalem left eight wounded.

(JNS) During the three-day conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the Gaza-based terrorist group launched 1,100 rockets at Israel — 200 of which came down inside Gaza, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

MONTREAL (JTA) — Canada’s 380,000 Jews were the most targeted religious minority for hate crimes reported to police in 2021, the country’s official numbers keeper reported Tuesday.

(JNS) The families of the 11 Israeli athletes killed during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich have rejected as “insulting” a proposal by the German government, announced publicly on Wednesday, to increase their compensation payments.

(JTA) – The Lufthansa airline is creating a senior management role dedicated to preventing discrimination and antisemitism two months after it barred a large group of Orthodox Jewish passengers from boarding a flight. 

(JNS) Brig. Gen. Naama Rosen, 40, was appointed the first female military secretary to the Israeli president on Sunday during a ceremony in Jerusalem at the presidential residence.

(Israel Hayom via JNS) Chabad announced on Monday that it would launch unprecedented legal proceedings against Russia to demand the return of the Chassidic group’s historical library, which was illegally confiscated by the Russian authorities.

(Israel Hayom via JNS) Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has instructed the country’s Foreign Ministry to prepare a series of political measures against Russia to be implemented in the event it closes the Russian branch of the Jewish Agency for Israel, a nonprofit organization that promotes immigration to Israel.

(JTA) — In the same week, sets of unidentified individuals cut down trees planted to commemorate Holocaust victims near the former Nazi camp of Buchenwald in Germany and drew swastikas were onto one of the concrete slabs of Berlin’s Holocaust memorial.

(JNS) French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the dangers of antisemitism as part of an 80th commemoration ceremony of a mass arrest and roundup of Jews in Paris that took place during the years of World War II and the Holocaust.