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2013

November

• 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

• Michael Bloomberg is named the first recipient of the Genesis Prize.
• Rabbi Ovadia Yosef dies; nearly one million attend his funeral.

September

• Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis is installed as the new Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, replacing the outgoing Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.

August

• Ban Ki-moon admits the United Nations discriminates against Israel.
• The Nineteenth Maccabiah Games open in Jerusalem.

July

• The Polish Parliament votes to prohibit shechita.
• Eric Garcetti, the first elected Jewish mayor of Los Angeles, takes office.

June

• 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

• 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

December

• Germany approves a bill to protect circumcision.

November

• 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.