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Danish Eurovision contestant addresses pro-Israel Instagram story backlash

Some countries participating in Eurovision have called for Israel's exclusion from the competition due to the war against Hamas in Gaza, but the EBU declined to put the matter to a vote.

Moderator Austrian singer Cesar Sampson holds a draw for Denmark during the draw session for the two semi-final events of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 on stage at the Vienna's city hall in Vienna, Austria, on January 12, 2026.
People cheer as they watch the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest finals being screened at a community center in Tel Aviv, Israel, on May 17, 2025.

Eurovision Song Contest oddsmakers predict Israel will win televoting again this year

Original photograph of the artifact published in 1927 (L) and the actual artifact, February 20, 2026.

Newly identified ancient Egyptian copper drill rewrites history of region’s craftsmanship

Security information is displayed ahead of a Taylor Swift concert, following the cancellation of three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna because of a planned attack, outside Wembley Stadium in London, Britain, August 15, 2024.

Austria files charges against suspect over planned 2024 Taylor Swift terror attack


Taylor Swift Vienna concerts canceled due to planned attack, organizer says

Taylor Swift's Vienna shows are canceled after a terror plot was uncovered. All tickets will be refunded.

 TAYLOR SWIFT performs during her Eras Tour in Europe.8

Schnitzler's 'La Ronde' is a work of beautiful decadence

Directed by Rakefet Binyamin, Schnitzler’s most performed work now gets a new life at Beit Zvi.

 ‘LA RONDE’ at Beit Zvi.

Blinken and Herzl: Tough choices in Vienna 130 years apart - opinion

2024, another Shabbat in Munich, another arrival; and again, the Jewish nation was asked to make a “tough choice.”

 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Holocaust memorial stones splattered with paint in Vienna

The Vienna Police said on social media to the Austrian Union of Jewish Students that the appropriate authorities had been notified of the incident.

A Holocaust memorial commemorating the murder of some 900 Jews in Golovanevsk, Ukraine was vandalized on Tuesday.

Russia allegedly considering withdrawal from Interpol

Despite continuing contributions to the Interpol budget, the nation would lose its fundamental right as a member country.

Interpol [file]

Fragments of Beethoven’s skull returned to Austrian university

In 1863, Kaufmann’s great uncle, Franz Romeo Seligmann, had been a Viennese physician, medical historian and anthropologist who was among those involved in the 863 reburial of Beethoven's body.

A portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven

The Rabbi and the Community – contemporary challenges - Opinion

What are the challenges that a rabbi facestoday?

 Rabbi Jaron Engelmayer

Vienna to tilt statue of antisemitic mayor 3.5 degrees to the right to shift ‘perspective’

Karl Lueger served as mayor of Vienna for 13 years until his death in 1910. He was known for antisemitic rhetoric that is said to have inspired Adolf Hitler.

 The monument of Karl Lueger in downtown Vienna

Ukrainian Jewish refugees choose to stay in Vienna with aid from Jewish community

The aid that the Jewish community offers the refugees includes housing aid, psychosocial care, food vouchers, Shabbat meals and other forms of social welfare.

 Protestors stand outside Hofburg Palace as a Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) takes place in Vienna, Austria, February 23, 2023.

Austrian police charge 2 men after Hitler speech plays on public train's loudspeakers

Vienna’s chief rabbi was on the train and said that the recording started with “strange music, snippets of conversation and laughter which suddenly turned into a Hitler speech."

 Two trains of the national rail company OeBB are seen during a warning strike in a railway station in Vienna, Austria November 26, 2018.