Portal:Judaism/News/2013

Please keep this list in backward chronological order.

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.