Dan Verbin

News writer based in North America

French police chief to be named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem

Rural town of Vabre's police chief Hubert Landes warned Jews before a mass roundup, so they could escape arrest and flee to safety.

Car ramming attack attempted at LA synagogue Sukkot concert

Man purposely drives car down alley directly into congregants who miraculously are able to jump out of the way, with no serious injuries.

Lithuanian government urges local authorities to mark Jewish massacre sites

Parliamentary measure also asks municipalities to tend to Jewish cemeteries and name public spaces after righteous among the nations.

Michigan State University hit with multiple anti-Semitic incidents over one weekend

MSU's Jewish studies department is calling for action after a rash of anti-Semitic incidents hits the campus on the same weekend.

Man arrested in anti-Semitic defacement of Atlanta autism center

Suspect arrested by police for August vandalism of Emory University Autism Center, including targeting a Jewish employee with a swastika.

B'nai Brith slams Canada for not deporting Nazi collaborator who passed away at 97

B'nai Brith calls government's failure to deport Helmut Oberlander after a 25 year legal battle a "stain on our national conscience."

Ohio park hit with swastika graffiti and 'extreme vandalism'

Powell, Ohio park complex sustains serious damage, after trail defaced with swastika and swimming pool trashed by unknown individuals.

Mexican Jewish leader targeted with anti-Semitic vandalism, threats to leave town

President of the Jewish community in Merida, Mexico targeted with anti-Semitic vandalism, threatening calls warning him to leave town.

US Senate bill calls on EU to designate Hezbollah in its entirety as a terror organization

American Jewish Committee praises the bill, noting it has long called for the EU to designate the entirety of Hezbollah as a terror entity.

‘Disturbing’ anti-Semitic incident at Ontario school prompts police investigation

Police in North Bay, Ontario are looking into a video of students making Nazi salutes while chanting "Heil Hitler."

Man defaced 17 London bus stops with 'Jews are grey aliens'

UK man behind graffiti in Jewish areas of London standing trial on charges of stirring up racial hatred.

Man who threatened Ohio Jewish Federation sentenced to 41 months in prison

James Rearedon will serve 41 months in jail for making threats on social media toward an Ohio Jewish community center in 2019.

Romania becomes 20th nation boycotting Durban IV conference

Event taking place on Wednesday has been boycotted by many nations over its commemoration of original hate-filled 2001 conference.

NYC cop arrested for vandalizing Jewish camp on Rosh Hashanah

Suspect faces two counts of burglary and two counts of criminal mischief.

Northern Ireland's Jews facing looming kosher food shortage

Post-Brexit trade issues between the UK and the EU are threatening to make it difficult for Northern Ireland's Jews to import kosher food.

Anti-Semitic graffiti found at Atlanta high school before Yom Kippur

A second Atlanta, Georgia area high school was defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti during the High Holy Days.

German court overturns ban on neo-Nazi election posters

Posters by far right political party contained the phrase "Hang the Greens."

San Francisco union shelves BDS resolution

SF union goes against rising trend of labor groups putting forward BDS resolutions, much to the outcry of many pro-Israel union members.

Anti-Semitic graffiti linked to hate group appears in Toronto area

Graffiti on building and highway overpass blames Jews for 9/11 attacks and lists website of group ADL calls "virulently anti-Semitic."

Germany arrests man suspected of aiding Iran's nuclear program

Man accused of providing four spectrometers to Iranian-run firm that is on EU blacklist who provided the nuclear equipment to Iran.

California teachers union slammed by Jewish advocacy group for anti-Israel resolution

StandWithUs calls San Diego union's resolution “disturbing” and full of "misrepresentations."

Ohio man given 20 year prison sentence for plotting to attack synagogue

Radicalized by ISIS propaganda, man told undercover FBI agent that he wanted to attack a Toledo synagogue and kill a rabbi.

UK Jewish community worried about impact of new meat labelling laws on kosher products

Community confident government will protect kosher slaughtering but concerned kosher meat will end up with discriminatory labelling.

Atlanta high school defaced with swastikas, 'Heil Hitler' graffiti

Anti-Semitic graffiti reportedly part of a social media trend where students vandalize and steal school property and post photos to TikTok.

Study finds most teachers in England lack basic knowledge to teach about the Holocaust

Study finds alarming lack of knowledge about the Holocaust, even among teachers who teach the subject.

Man threatening to 'kill Jews with my AR-15' during Rosh Hashanah arrested in Maine

24-year old Buxton, Maine resident faces up to five years in prison for threatening to kill Jews during the High Holy Days.

Suspect in gang attack on Jewish man in Lyon, France arrested

Leader of gang, reportedly a minor, held by police after Jewish man called anti-Semitic slur and assaulted at the end of Rosh Hashanah.

Norwegian pension fund boycotting Israel invested in firms allegedly tied to slave labor

Report details fund boycotting Judea and Samaria while investing in Chinese companies tied to forced labor and sanctioned Russian entities.

Suspect in slaying of Texas Jewish woman wrote about 'Jewish Satan worshippers'

Latest evidence reveals Georgette Kaufmann and her husband Daniel Kaufmann were targeted by shooter because they were Jewish.

Man arrested in Wash DC outside DNC headquarters with machete and bayonet

Suspect's pickup truck was covered with a swastika and white supremacist symbols.

UK Labour councillor slammed for joining ‘From the river to the sea’ chant

Previously suspended councillor participating in “From the river to the sea” chant at protest alongside Jeremy Corbyn.

Mezuzah stolen from Jewish student's door at Tufts University

Police at Massachusetts college investigating anti-Semitic incident but so far there are no suspects.

Minnesota Jews targeted by cemetery vandalism, violent threats during Rosh Hashanah week

St Louis Park synagogue forced to cancel services and preschool after violent threat while 30 tombstones in St Paul Jewish cemetery toppled.

313 lawmakers sign letter calling on UN to end discrimination against Israel

Transatlantic Friends of Israel initiative demands an end to disproportionate discrimination of Israel by the United Nations.

New Zealand and Cyprus join boycott of Durban IV

16 countries are now boycotting the 20th anniversary commemoration of the widely condemned 2001 Durban conference.

UK man accused of punching Jewish woman to be sentenced

Alleged assailant, currently residing in a psychiatric hospital, will be sentenced in October for brazen attack on pregnant woman.

Vilnius Jewish cemetery defaced with swastika on Rosh Hashanah

Hate symbol was immediately removed from the Old Jewish Cemetery but shortly after was found again on the same sign.

Massachusetts synagogue vandalized with Nazi symbols

Swastikas carved into sign of Temple Beth Sholom in Framingham, Massachusetts shortly after Rosh Hashanah.

NYC killer disguised as Hasidic Jew fatally shoots man getting into his car

Video footage of Queens, NY killing shows man apparently wearing garb of a Hasidic Jew as he waits to ambush other man getting into his car.

RFK's widow slams possibility of parole for husband's assassin Sirhan Sirhan

Ethel Kennedy says that Sirhan's parole would give him the "opportunity to terrorize again."