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A Chabad House in Phuket, Thailand, where demonstrations have been taking place, canceled Rosh Hashanah celebrations on Friday. “Due to a request from Israeli security officials, we deeply regret that we are canceling the event,” the Chabad reportedly wrote to registered guests. “Please do not approach the area.

Board members of the Centre of Excellence for Religious Male Circumcision (CERM) and representatives of the European Jewish Association (EJA) presented the Centre’s curriculum during a meeting this week in Brussel with European Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare Oliver Várhelyi. They next steps for certification and recognition by EU Member States and institutions.

There was a time when any policy announcement from the foreign secretary of the United Kingdom was a momentous event. Prior to World War I, Britain was the leading economic and military power on the planet with a navy that ruled the waves and an empire on which the sun never set.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša attended the inauguration Wednesday of the Israeli embassy in Slovenia, which took place amid a push by many E.U. members states to isolate Israel internationally. Sa’ar on X noted Janša’s attendance, which was unusual, and that of Sa’ar’s Slovenian counterpart, Tone Kajzer as well as “ministers from current and previous governments,” who “celebrated the opening of Israel’s new embassy in Ljubljana.

Israel has announced countermeasures after British foreign secretary Ed Miliband announced on Tuesday a ban on products from Judea and Samaria. The British Consulate in East Jerusalem will be closed, UK personnel will be removed from the Gaza coordination centre in Kiryat Gat and Britain’s programme training Palestinian Authority security forces will end. Israel has also barred 12 British nationals from entering the country, accusing them of anti-Israel or antisemitic activity.

The U.S. special envoy for fighting antisemitism, Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, sent a letter last month to Lithuania’s culture minister, asking him to block plans to build a conference center atop an ancient Vilnius Jewish cemetery that Soviet authorities had razed. The office of U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun published on Saturday a copy of the letter, sent on Aug. 10 by Kaploun to the minister, Lukas Alsys.

France led 11 other countries in an announcement on Tuesday that they would sanction, or consider sanctioning, goods from Judea and Samaria in response to what they said is the Israeli government’s actions that undermine a “two-state solution.” The countries singled out the marketing tenders for the E1 real estate development project in Ma’ale Admuim, a city outside Jerusalem.

“The government believes the unlawfulness of the occupation should be reflected in the economic relationship we choose to have with the occupied territories,” Miliband said in parliament. The ban would come into effect next year, within six months, he added.

Two senior Israeli Cabinet ministers called on Tuesday for punitive diplomatic measures against the United Kingdom following reports that it would announce fresh sanctions against Israelis in Judea and Samaria later in the day.

“Germany looks to the right. It must not be blind in its left eye,” Ron Prosor wrote on X. “The danger of right-wing extremism is obvious. It is discussed, named, and condemned. Left-wing antisemitism deserves exactly the same clarity,” he added. In Sunday’s Saxony-Anhalt state election, the AfD won 43.8% of the vote, up from 20.8% in 2021, becoming the state’s largest party for the first time and finishing just three seats short of an absolute majority in the 83-seat state parliament.