Having identified a critical need for self-defense training, Raziel Cohen, aka The Tactical Rabbi, an NRA and DOJ-certified firearms instructor, has put together a series of specialized full-day training courses designed to provide community leaders and shluchim with the tools they need to address their unique set of challenges • Full Story, Photos

In addition to attacks on Jews related to the Israel-Hamas conflict, recent assaults on Jews include the stabbing of a Boston rabbi and bullets fired through synagogue windows. Dozens of Jewish institutions have been vandalized across the US since May, including Holocaust museums, Chabad houses, and schools • Full Story

Chabad of Ulm, Germany, which was subject to a hate related firebomb attack just last week, hosted an outdoor vigil to take a stand against anti-semitism. Tens flocked to the synagogue to show their support of Rabbi Shneur Trebnik, shliach to the German. Those in attendance were moved by live music and words from local officials • Photos

Teshuvah for Meyers Leonard: A recent Shabbos dinner at Rabbi Pinny Andrusier’s home in Cooper City, Florida, was memorable for many reasons • Miami’s Jewish community embraces NBA player after he apologizes for anti-Semitic slur • Full Story

Jewish residents of a Paris suburb chased and overpowered a man whom witnesses said tried to stab three Jews, then handed him over to police • Full Story

International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced on Wednesday that she is opening a full war crimes probe against Israel and the Hamas terrorist group in the Gaza Strip • Full Story

For the first time, a U.S. state has officially adopted a definition of anti-Semitism that has ignited debates worldwide over the extent to which criticism of Israel should be considered anti-Semitic • Full Story

British Jewry’s main security unit recorded 1,668 anti-Semitic incidents last year – an 8% drop from 2019 but still among the three highest tallies ever. Of the incidents recorded in 2020 by the Community Security Trust, or CST, 100 were violent assaults — a 39% drop in that category from 2019, according to the London-based organization’s Antisemitic Incidents Report 2020 published Thursday. Among those, three were severe • Full Story

The ruling on Tuesday by a Polish court against two leading scholars of the Holocaust on trial for libel sent a chill throughout the Jewish world, as community and academic leaders warned that independent research into the Nazi persecution of the Jews during World War II would be stifled as a consequence • Full Story

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday accused the International Criminal Court at The Hague of anti-Semitism after it ruled that it has jurisdiction to open a war crimes investigation against Israel • Full Story

The campus watchdog group, Alums for Campus Fairness (ACF), released a groundbreaking report on Thursday outlining the 50 most flagrant anti-Semitic incidents at American universities and detailing recommendations for alumni to combat bigotry at their alma maters • Full Story

Friday’s 2-1 ruling by the International Criminal Court’s three-member Pre-Trial Chamber in The Hague significantly advanced the possibility of such suits, although this is not the final step. The matter now returns to the hands of ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda for further investigation as whether war crimes suits could be filed. The process could still be a protracted and lengthy one • Full Story

The city of Paris adopted the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism during a session of the Council of Paris on Thursday, joining a growing number of cities around the world, including London and more recently the French city of Nice, to make the move • Full Story

The editor of a website devoted to Jewish life in Poland was questioned by Polish police on Thursday, following an anonymous complaint concerning an article she wrote about Polish complicity with the Nazi persecution of the country’s 3 million Jews during World War II • Full Story

Five leading companies in Germany adopted the leading definition of antisemitism Tuesday, in a joint declaration announced on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The companies — Deutsche Bank, the automotive firms Daimler AG and Volkswagen, the state-owned railway Deutsche Bahn, and the sports club Borussia Dortmund — include those with admitted historical ties to the Nazi regime during World War Two • Full Story

A married couple who were arrested in Brooklyn after they attacked a group of Hasidic Jews in a bid to rip off their coronavirus protection masks reportedly cited New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as justification during the assault • Full Story

A fake bomb was placed at the entrance of an Israeli-owned kosher restaurant in Amsterdam on Wednesday, The “bomb,” a cardboard box with masking tape fastening wires and an electric trigger mechanism to the top, was found outside the HaCarmel restaurant in southern Amsterdam • Photos

In the last 24 hours Shomrim NW London have received reports of 2 swastika’s daubed outside Jewish homes in Golders Green. Last night a swastika was daubed on the wall of a Jewish owned home with words “hail boris” • Full Story

A senior rabbi on a visit to the United Kingdom was severely beaten in London on Friday by two teenagers yelling anti-Semitic slurs. The rabbi, who has not yet been named, boarded a plane to Israel on Motzei Shabbos • Full Story

Reports of hate crimes targeting the Jewish community are surging in the subway, according to police statistics, a troubling trend that mirrors what’s bubbling outside of the transit system. As of October 20, the NYPD has logged 42 hate-crime complaints involving anti-Semitic acts in the subway this year  • Full Story

In what has become an all too familiar scenario in New York, multiple Hasidic Jews were attacked on the streets of Boro Park Friday night. The first attack occured at approximately midnight on New Utrecht Avenue and 53rd Street. Two Hasidic boys were walking down the street, when a vehicle stopped next to them. A few men jumped out of the vehicle and began chasing them down • Full Story

A man who attempted to break into a Jewish school in southern France while shouting anti-Semitic slurs was arrested by police after guards at the school confronted him and sounded an alarm, according to a report in the Algemeiner • Full Story

A survey conducted by the American Jewish Committee (AJC)  to mark the anniversary of the shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue that killed 11 people last year has revealed that nearly a third of Jewish Americans avoid wearing things that may reveal their religious identity • Full Story

A Jewish man was slapped in the face and called a “dirty Jew” Crown Heights. The incident took place on Shabbos afternoon. The Jewish man was attacked by a black male riding a bicycle. He crossed in front of the Jewish man on his bike, slapped him and said “you dirty Jew” • Full Story

At least two people were shot dead on a street in the German city of Halle on Wednesday, police said, with witnesses saying that a synagogue was among the gunmen’s targets as Jews marked the holy day of Yom Kippur. One suspect was captured but with a manhunt ongoing for other perpetrators, security has been tightened in synagogues in other eastern German cities while Halle itself was in lockdown • Full Story