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2014
2013
[edit]November
[edit]- The Jewish General Hospital announces it will ignore the Quebec Charter of Values if passed.
- Three families sue the Pine Bush Central School District for antisemitism.
October
[edit]- Michael Bloomberg is named the first recipient of the Genesis Prize.
- Rabbi Ovadia Yosef dies; nearly one million attend his funeral.
September
[edit]- Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis is installed as the new Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, replacing the outgoing Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.
August
[edit]- Ban Ki-moon admits the United Nations discriminates against Israel.
- The Nineteenth Maccabiah Games open in Jerusalem.
July
[edit]- The Polish Parliament votes to prohibit shechita.
- Eric Garcetti, the first elected Jewish mayor of Los Angeles, takes office.
June
[edit]- The Anti-Defamation League, in a review of Alice Walker's The Cushion in the Road, accuses her of antisemitism.
- Two Bolivians plead of extorting Jacob Ostreicher.
- The gadol Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is hospitalized following a fall.
May
[edit]- Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet publishes an anti-Milah cartoon, widely described as antisemitic.
- Israel's government agrees on a plan to end military exemptions for Haredim.
- A Polish walkway is named in honor of Irena Sendler, who saved 2500 Jewish children from the Holocaust.
2012
[edit]December
[edit]- Germany approves a bill to protect circumcision.
November
[edit]- The Polish Constitutional Court declares shechitah to be illegal.
- A Hungarian MP from the far right Jobbik party calls for a list of Jewish politicians and government employees who are a "threat to national security". The Hungarian Government later releases a statement condemning the comments.
- After a 2012–13 UEFA Europa League football match between Lazio and Tottenham Hotspur in Rome, Lazio and A.S. Roma fans wearing masks and armed with knives surround a pub while chanting "Jews, Jews". They then attack the Jewish contingent of Tottenham fans in the pub and injur 10, with one individual severely wounded.
- Three Jews are killed in Kiryat Malachi, Israel by a barrage of rocket fire, part of a week-long conflict between Israel and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.