Please keep this list in backward chronological order.
November
edit- 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
edit- Michael Bloomberg is named the first recipient of the Genesis Prize.
- Rabbi Ovadia Yosef dies; nearly one million attend his funeral.
September
edit- Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis is installed as the new Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, replacing the outgoing Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.
August
edit- Ban Ki-moon admits the United Nations discriminates against Israel.
- The Nineteenth Maccabiah Games open in Jerusalem.
July
edit- The Polish Parliament votes to prohibit shechita.
- Eric Garcetti, the first elected Jewish mayor of Los Angeles, takes office.
June
edit- 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
edit- 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.