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.