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Berlin attack highlights Europe’s shift to individualized, multi-layered terror threats - analysis

Online radicalization, lone-actor violence, and Iran-linked networks are placing European security services under pressure from distinct but increasingly simultaneous threats.

Tourists and visitors observe and pay respects at a makeshift memorial set in Pariser Platz in front of the Brandenburg gate, one week after the Christopher Street Day pride parade attack on August 2, 2026 in Berlin, Germany.
Police officers walk, as emergency responders work on the site, after the annual Berlin's Christopher Street Day Pride parade was called off, after a car crashed into the crowd at Tiergarten park, leaving several people injured, in Berlin, Germany, July 25, 2026.

Suspect in Berlin Pride attack shot dead by police in Berlin suburb

US President Donald Trump gestures as he disembarks the new Qatari-gifted Air Force One, while he arrives at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, US, July 17, 2026.

US Education Department removes rules against discrimination, civil rights groups condemned move

Protesters hold up Pride flags as they stand in front of riot police officers in Izmir, Turkey, on June 27, 2026.

Turkey's LGBT crackdown rooted in Erdogan's conservative religious push, experts tell 'Post'


25 ViZionaries: Ritchie Torres - No. 4

Meet the progressing congressman combating BDS.

 Rep. Ritchie Torres, New York.

These queer newlyweds are modeling Jewish joy for LGBTQ youth

While some Orthodox communities have tried to make space for LGBTQ members, the vast majority of Orthodox rabbis, citing prohibitions in traditional Jewish law, do not conduct LGBTQ weddings.

 LGBT Rights activists wave flags and protest as religious Jewish activitsts protest against same-sex parenting and LGBT families, in Tel Aviv, on December 16, 2018.

Grapevine: Righteous streets

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Aryeh King speaks to reporters on the streets of Sheikh Jarrah

'Rainbow Club in Yeshiva': JQY's animated LGBTQ videos aim to foster dialogue

The videos aim to frame a new community conversation about LGBTQ+ issues that allows "disagreements without divisiveness."

 Participants in the annual Jerusalem pride march on June 1, 2023

Turkish outlet links Chabad to Mossad, LGBT support in Northern Cyprus

The Milli Gazete report alleges, "Chabad commits many crimes. They launder money and leak information to Mossad. They decipher all military points. They buy land from near military areas."

Chabad emissaries (shluchim) attending their annual international conference at Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn in November 2019.

Canada, citing potential dangers, warns LGBT travelers of US risks

Anti-LGBT demonstrations in the United States last year rocketed 30-fold compared with 2017 and legal moves to restrict LGBT rights are on the rise.

Supporters of the LGBTQIA+ community gathered for the Don't Drag Us Down protest at the State House in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S. May 5, 2023.

Israeli transgender woman dies in London, friends working to bring her home

Trans rights activists argued that the Foreign Ministry was not aiding in efforts to bring the woman home.

The Transgender Pride Flag flies on the Foreign Office building in London on Transgender Day of Remembrance, 20 November 2017.

Israeli man indicted for hiring hitman to ‘honor kill’ lesbian sister

Sarit, an 18-year-old girl from the Druze town of Kisra-Sumei, was threatened for years before her murder due to her sexual orientation. 

A social media photo of Sarit Ahmad, who was killed at the age of 18.

Catholic students asked to behave 'consistent with their biological sex'

The controversial new policy enforces students using their pronouns assigned at birth and their birth names and forbids same-sex relationships.

 AN EMPTY classroom in an east Jerusalem school, closed in protest at ‘Israeli censorship’ of PA-autorized school textbooks, last year.

Pamphlets blaming Holocaust on LGBT people appear for 2nd time in a week

Thousands of men were sent to concentration camps as "homosexual offenders" during the Holocaust.

The LGBT community marks the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, Meir Park in Tel Aviv, on May 1, 2019