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Yaakov Schwartz
Yaakov Schwartz
Yaakov Schwartz is The Times of Israel's deputy Jewish World editor.
Rep. Nita Lowey, D-NY, a pro-Israel stalwart who chairs the powerful US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, led the introduction of a bill to restore funding to Israeli-Palestinian dialogue groups. Pictured in Washington on April 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
November 29, 2019, 1:12 pm
Outgoing Rep. Nita Lowey: Worry over Dems’ waning support for Israel ‘overblown’
Episode #13: A veteran Jewish congresswoman talks about Israel and anti-Semitism * AJC campus director and Hillel Ontario head discuss Judaism on North American college campuses
By Yaakov Schwartz
Supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demonstrate outside PM Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem on November 21, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90)
November 22, 2019, 3:40 pm
Oceans apart, American Jewry is as fragmented as Israel’s government
Episode #12: NYT writer Ronen Bergman on Netanyahu’s criminal indictment * Forward editor Jodi Rudoren wants US Jews to communicate * Veteran Israeli analyst talks coalition effort
By Yaakov Schwartz
Illustrative: French President Emmanuel Macron looks at a grave vandalized with a swastika during a visit at the Jewish cemetery in Quatzenheim, on February 19, 2019, on the day of nationwide marches against a rise in anti-Semitic attacks. (Frederick Florin/Pool/AFP)
November 21, 2019, 7:13 am
ADL survey: 25% of Europeans anti-Semitic, East European bigotry rises sharply
A global poll of 9,000 adults in 18 countries shows significant numbers believe age-old tropes about Jews, including that they seek world domination
By Yaakov Schwartz
Paramedics treat a woman and her dog moments after a rocket fired by Palestinians terrorists from Gaza hit a main free way between Ashdod and Tel Aviv near Ashdod Israel, Tuesday, November 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
November 15, 2019, 4:11 pm
Israelis mull if violence this week ‘worth it’ as life slowly returns to normal
Episode #11: Tol analysts Avi Issacharoff and Judah Ari Gross give update on Gaza flareup * Zalman Mlotek and Steven Skybell on why Yiddish version of ‘Fiddler’ is such a hit
By Yaakov Schwartz
Deborah Lipstadt, author of 'Antisemitism: Here and Now' (courtesy)
November 1, 2019, 4:18 pm
Lipstadt: Take anti-Semitism seriously ‘not just when there are dead bodies’
Episode #9: Deborah Lipstadt explains Jew-hatred in 2019 * Dr. Matthew Levitt on what Israel can expect from Lebanon protests * Raoul Wootliff breaks down Israeli coalition efforts
By Yaakov Schwartz
In this October 29, 2018, file photo, a person pauses in front of Stars of David with the names of those killed in a deadly shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
October 23, 2019, 3:02 pm
9 out of 10 US Jews worry about anti-Semitism, and most think it’s getting worse
Overwhelming majority in AJC poll among over 1,200 Jewish respondents across political and religious lines see Jew-hatred as a problem
By Yaakov Schwartz
People place flowers in front of the synagogue in Halle, Germany, where a memorial has been placed for the victims of Wednesday's shooting. October 11, 2019. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)
October 12, 2019, 10:55 pm
‘A Shabbat of healing’: Halle’s resilient Jews return to pray, find solidarity
Thousands show support for small community after Yom Kippur terrorist attack, but synagogue’s warden warns Jews are caught ‘between two flames’: neo-fascists and hostile immigrants
By Yaakov Schwartz
Rabbi Rebecca Blady, center, performs the havdallah ceremony in 2017. (Courtesy Base BERLIN)
October 11, 2019, 6:40 pm
Synagogue shooting survivor says German Jewry can’t only be about anti-Semitism
US Rabbi Rebecca Blady and husband Rabbi Jeremy Borovitz arrived in Berlin in May to do Jewish outreach. After surviving near-massacre on Yom Kippur, their resolve isn’t weakened
By Yaakov Schwartz
Rabbi Baruch Oberlander, right, blows the shofar horn on the bank of the Danube River at a ceremony dedicating two new synagogues and two new Torah scrolls in Budapest, September 22, 2019. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)
September 23, 2019, 3:04 pm
Confident that Jews will fill pews, Hungary’s Chabad opens 2 synagogues in a day
In an event that hasn’t happened since WWII, hundreds celebrate Sunday’s dedication of two houses of worship — and a couple of newly written Torah scrolls
By Yaakov Schwartz
Refugees aboard a blue rubber dinghy soon to be picked up by the Ocean Viking, August 2019. (Hannah Wallace Bowman/SOS Mediterranee)
September 21, 2019, 3:10 am
In Germany, Jewish funds help keep Mediterranean migrant rescue missions afloat
As thousands flee Africa on flimsy boats, just one ship operates in the area between Libya and Italy. A Jewish aid group is partnering up with others to help its operators
By Yaakov Schwartz
From left: Villagers from Agoudal with gear purchased with money raised by the GoFundMe page managed by Martha Rettig and Denise Marie; A Jewish-Amazigh workshop in the Atlas mountains in the 1950s; Amazigh women cross a river bearing loads on their backs. (Courtesy)
September 6, 2019, 4:28 pm
Moroccan villagers with a hazy Jewish tie get a financial lifeline from Israelis
How Jewish donors are helping the indigenous Amazigh clothe and educate themselves, as they struggle to spark a cultural resurgence within a society of ruling Arab elites
By Yaakov Schwartz
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on a solidarity and trade mission meets with Israel President Reuven Rivlin, June 27, 2019. (Courtesy)
June 27, 2019, 9:40 pm
Gov. Cuomo says Israeli self-driving tech could pilot NYC’s subways
In Israel for a brief trip focused on solidarity and trade ties, New York State governor also laments rising anti-Semitism, saying NYC has seen an 83% increase, vows zero tolerance
By Yaakov Schwartz
Mourning candles in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square, following the June 12, 2014 murder of Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
June 18, 2019, 6:33 pm
Voting commences in $10,000 Israel-Diaspora unity contest honoring slain teens
Through June 20, public can vote on projects uniting Jews in Israel and abroad in memory of Gil-ad Shaer, Naftali Fraenkel and Eyal Yifrach, murdered in 2014 by Hamas terrorists
By Yaakov Schwartz
People hold flags during a demonstration by Germany's nationalist party AfD (Alternative for Germany) on May Day in Erfurt, central Germany, May 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
May 18, 2019, 4:46 am
As rowdy German parliament okays landmark anti-BDS law, far-right AfD wants more
Anti-immigration party, shunned by German Jewish community leaders, calls itself ‘Israel’s one true friend in parliament’ as it pushes for stronger legislation
By Yaakov Schwartz
The Mauthausen prisoner band playing as inmates are taken to their death, 1942. (Courtesy Claims Conference)
May 2, 2019, 6:07 am
Most Austrians don’t know 6 million Jews were killed in Holocaust, survey finds
A study released on Holocaust Remembrance Day shows ‘appalling lack of knowledge’ about the genocide even while Austrians overestimate their country’s role in saving Jews
By Yaakov Schwartz
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