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The Mordechai Navi Synagogue in Yerevan. Image via ChaiKhana.

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Yerevan Synagogue attacked for fourth time in a year

by Arshaluys Barseghyan

•3 min read

Yerevan’s synagogue has been attacked for the fourth time since October 2023, in a series of incidents that many in the city’s Jewish community suggest are part of a ‘provocation’ from outside of Armenia. The Mordechai Navi Synagogue, the only synagogue in Armenia, was attacked on Sunday night with an unidentified person throwing a brick through one of its windows. The Yerevan Jewish Home Telegram channel reported on the attack on Monday, publishing photos of the damaged window and quoting C

Protesters gathered outside the airport in Makhachkala, Daghestan. Photo: Ramazan Rashidov/TASS

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What was behind the North Caucasus’ antisemitic surge?

by Tata Shoshiashvili

•7 min read

As the Israel-Hamas war continues, the North Caucasus has seen a number of violent antisemitic incidents. But while Russia maintains that the West and Ukraine are behind the events, others have suggested that the riots have offered an outlet for pent-up frustrations that cannot be expressed towards the government. On 29 October, more than a thousand people stormed Makhachkala airport, ahead of the expected arrival of a flight from Tel Aviv to the Daghestani capital. Footage from the scene

Metropolitan Ioane Gamrekeli. Photo: Irakli Tkemaladze

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Georgian Orthodox clergy double down on antisemitic sermons

by Shota Kincha

•4 min read

The Georgian Orthodox Church has come under fire for a series of antisemitic sermons and comments by high-profile clergymen. On Monday, while dismissing accusations of antisemitism in the Church and attacking those he said had ‘spewed’ such allegations, Ilia Karkadze, a deacon at the Trinity Cathedral in Kutaisi, voiced a number of antisemitic conspiracy theories. While insisting that antisemitism was historically alien to Georgia, Karkadze warned of ‘Zionist groups’ on the side of ‘unkind f

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Vitali Safarov’s mother: I must know why they killed my son

by Dato Parulava

•6 min read

Vitali Safarov, a 25-year-old Jewish Georgian man, was stabbed to death in Tbilisi in September 2018. Two men were jailed for 15 years each on charges of group murder, however, the court ruled his killing was not ethnically motivated despite witness testimony that he was killed by neo-Nazis because he was Jewish. The family of the deceased have appealed the judgment as they are confident that Safarov was the victim of a hate crime. [Read more about Vitali Safarov’s case on OC Media: