Dan Verbin

News writer based in North America

Surfside condo collapse victims, families to receive $150 million in initial compensation

Judge rules that victims and their families entitled to insurance money and proceeds from the sale of the property where the building stood.

Shops along two-mile stretch of Canadian highway defaced with swastikas

Multiple Winnipeg stores along main road defaced with red swastikas and other hateful messages on day of national anti-Semitism summit.

Scientists discover over 30 viruses frozen in 15,000-year old ice

Team studying core ice samples from Tibetan Plateau find 28 genetic markers from viruses not previously studied by science.

London synagogue whose history dates back to 1867 closing

Historic South London Synagogue closing its doors due to aging and dwindling membership and lack of local Jewish community in the area.

Canadian PM: 'Good intentions are not enough' to combat Jew hate

PM Trudeau speaks at national anti-Semitism summit criticized for failing to invite opposition leaders, including Jewish Green Party leader.

Suspect arrested for stealing 7-year old Boro Park Jewish boy's e-scooter

Seven-time felon allegedly stole $500 scooter and sold it for $100 to buy drugs.

Anti-Semitic graffiti found on back of store in downtown Philadelphia

Hateful statements on the back of a store in upscale area of the city in the process of being removed.

UCLA profs urge pres to condemn 'offensive' anti-Israel statement by Asian Studies Dept

Group slams "hateful" statement as creating an "unwelcoming, toxic atmosphere" for Jewish faculty and students on campus.

Australian kosher authority delists Ben & Jerry's ice cream

Kosher agency takes Ben & Jerry's off list of approved products, recommends a local alternative ice cream instead.

Poway synagogue shooter pleads guilty, receives life sentence with no chance of parole

Shooter who killed one and injured three during Passover in 2019 still faces federal charges, under which the death penalty may be sought.

Man with swastika flags harasses parents, students at Florida elementary school

Parents are looking for a solution after man repeatedly stands outside school waving swastikas and harassing passersby.

US senators call on Polish president to veto anti-Holocaust restitution bill

Bipartisan US Senate group criticizes proposed legislation as an affront to achieving justice for victims of the Nazis.

Canadian government hosting national anti-Semitism summit

Summit will feature array of speakers including Irwin Cotler, special envoy for combating anti-Semitism.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio joins boycott of Ben & Jerry's ice cream

De Blasio says that he will not be eating Ben & Jerry's "Cherry Garcia" flavor ice cream for a while.

B'nai Brith launches petition in wake of "unchecked anti-Semitism" on U of Toronto campus

Organization calls for resignation of faculty association head for offensive comments and for school to combat growing campus anti-Semitism.

UPenn pro-Palestinian group calls for cancellation of school trip to Israel

Newly formed group attacks 7-day tour of Israel as "well-funded campaign" to "deflect attention...from ongoing human rights abuses."

Manitoba reverses proposal to ban circumcisions performed outside medical settings

Flood of concerned comments from Winnipeg Federation and Jewish community lead to provincial medical body reversing proposal.

American Jewish group denounces latest anti-Israel resolution by United Church of Christ

American Jewish Committee slams one-sided resolution that ignores Israel's "relentless pursuit of peace for 73 years."

Windows of Brooklyn Jewish school smashed with a hammer

Assailant captured on video walking up to the Williamsburg school and smashing the windows multiple times.

Swastika found on sidewalk in Wayne, New Jersey shocks community

Nazi symbol found on sidewalk in New Jersey township called “affront to our community as a whole.”

Austrian activist group's map of Jewish sites marked with yellow stars draws outrage

Left wing group announces Vienna map will soon be expanded to cover all of Austria but removes it after fierce online criticism.

Jewish WWII RAF pilot, one of the last remaining 'Dambusters,' dies at 100

Lawrence "Benny" Goodman was a "Jewish hidden hero" who played an instrumental part in British air campaigns against Nazi infrastructure.

Call for Human Rights Watch head to resign after tweet blaming Israel for anti-Semitism

ADL calls Kenneth Roth's statement blaming rise in UK anti-Semitism on Israel "plainly false and offensive."

Danish cartoonist whose drawings of Mohammed outraged Muslim world dies at 86

Fury in Islamic world over Kurt Westergaard's depictions of Mohammed culminated in the 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Holocaust survivor who became Australia's richest woman dies at 92

Jewish philanthropist Millie Phillips donated to many causes, including giving $15 million to Tel Aviv University in 2015.

B'nai Brith slams Toronto school board for ignoring Jew-hatred

Jewish community outraged after reinstatement of staffer who posted "virulently anti-Israel" material that justified suicide bombings.

Montreal auction house sale of Nazi items criticized by Jewish community

Community not satisfied by company's explanation that buyers are "military collections" buying "historical pieces."

Biden admin restarts Guantanamo Bay detainee transfer program

In first transfer of administration, 56-year old Moroccan prisoner transferred from Guantanamo Bay back to home country of Morocco.

California budget to include $14.9 million to restore 106-year old synagogue

Breed Street Shul in Boyle Heights was founded in 1915 by Easter European Jews but fell out of use after WWII when community moved away.

UK Labour to ban 1,000 members who refuted that party had anti-Semitism problem

The party's executive expected to vote on Tuesday to expel four far left groups loyal to former leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Threatening swastika-covered letter sent to Massachusetts woman

The second such incident to take place in Andover in the last month is being treated as a hate crime by police.

Thief steals e-scooter from six-year old Jewish boy in Borough Park, Brooklyn

Story has happy ending when NYPD and community leaders gift the now 7-year old with a new scooter and helmet. Thief is still on the loose.

Pro-Israel watchdog urges LA Times to denounce anti-Israel letter signed by its reporters

CAMERA asks the Times to reject unethical journalism that seeks to "substitute propaganda for objectivity and fact."

Manitoba's proposed change to circumcision regulations worries Jewish community

Proposal from regulator banning doctors from performing circumcisions outside clinical or medical settings called a "slippery slope."

NYC mayoral candidate Eric Adams to Mayor de Blasio: 'Listen, I am the mayor.'

At private political event, outgoing Mayor de Blasio tries to get on stage with Adams, who ignores him and focuses on the crowd instead.

'Low traffic' plan brings heavily Jewish UK area to a standstill

Jewish residents of London's Stamford Hill, home to the largest Hasidic community in Europe, say cars are a "necessity" for their families.

Children's graves defaced at Jewish cemetery in Chemnitz, Germany

Local police investigating after headstones broken, knocked over by unknown individuals.

Utah HS parking lot vandalized with swastikas, hate symbols

High school in Logan, UT defaced with two swastikas and neo-Nazi slogans, investigation is ongoing.

LA Unified School Board unanimously condemns anti-Semitism

Board's resolution calls for updated resources for administrators and teachers to address all forms of anti-Semitism.

German Jewish leader calls on next government to be proactive against Jew hatred

Dr. Josef Schuste praises government for creating anti-Semitism commissioner, urges next government to continue its proactive policies.