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US and Germany Join in Holocaust Education Push
ByczeStudio iStock / Getty Images Plus By Ron Kampeas The Biden administration and Angela Merkel’s government are signing a letter of intent to share information and strategies on advancing Holocaust...
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In Poland, Bill to Limit Holocaust Restitution Advances
Yoram Sztykgold recalls his childhood in Warsaw, Poland, which he visited to obtain restitution for property on Sept. 5, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA.org) By Cnaan Liphshiz The Polish parliament has...
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Teenagers Shatter 19th-century Synagogue’s Windows in Romania
By Cnaan Liphshiz Stone-throwing teenagers smashed multiple windows of a 19th-century synagogue building in Romania. No one was hurt in Monday’s incident at the Synagogue of Orastie, in the western...
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Tokyo Olympics: All the Jewish Athletes to Watch
From left: Alex Klineman, Jemima Montag, Eli Dershwitz, Diego Schwartzman, Maru Teferi, Linoy Ashram, Ezra Frech and Anat Lelior. (Getty Images via JTA.org) By Emily Burack The 2020 Tokyo Olympics are...
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Jewish Man Documents Antisemitic Abuse Twice in One Hour in London
domoskanonos / iStock / Getty Images Plus By Cnaan Liphshiz A Jewish man documented himself encountering antisemitic rhetoric twice in one hour while using London’s public transportation system,...
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Renovators Find Long-forgotten Ritual Burial facility at Neglected Cemetery...
The Jewish cemetery of Rascov, Transnistria. (Courtesy of Rabbi Pinchas Zaltsman via JTA.org) By Cnaan Liphshiz Renovators at a Jewish cemetery in a breakaway province of Moldova discovered amid...
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Polish Nationalists Disrupt Commemoration for Jewish Pogrom Victims
By Katarzyna Markusz WARSAW — Several dozen nationalist protesters disrupted a commemoration ceremony for Jewish victims of a 1941 pogrom in Jedwabne, Poland, symbolizing the country’s fraught debate...
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Ancestry of Jewish Refugee’s Son at Heart of Major Political Crisis in Congo
By Cnaan Liphshiz The ancestry of the son of a Jewish refugee in the Democratic Republic of Congo has emerged as a flashpoint for a political crisis that is threatening the integrity of the massive...
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Three Jewish Filmmakers Arrested in Nigeria, Accused of Working with Rebels
Indigenous People of Biafra supporters and members of the Yahveh Yashua Synagogue (Yisraelities Biafra Region) celebrate Shabbat in Umuahia, on May 27, 2017. MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images via...
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First Israeli Player in NBA Retires from Basketball
BZA / iStock / Getty Images Plus By Ben Sales Omri Casspi, the first Israeli to make it to the NBA, has retired from playing basketball professionally. Casspi, 33, began his career with Maccabi Tel...
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Pope Francis Restricts Latin Mass That Caused Controversy with Jews
By Ben Sales Pope Francis has restricted the use of the Latin Mass, a form of the liturgy favored by traditionalist Catholics that calls for the conversion of the Jews and that until 2008 included a...
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Argentina’s Vice President Rails Against AMIA Trial
The names of those who died in a 1994 bombing are posted on the wall of the AMIA Jewishcommunity center. Photo by Liz Spikol On the 27th anniversary of the AMIA Jewish center bombing in Buenos Aires...
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AP Predicts that Israel Will Win a Record-setting Seven Olympic Medals
PeskyMonkey iStock / Getty Images Plus By Gabe Friedman Will it be a historic Olympics for Israel? The Associated Press thinks so. On its list of predicted medalists for each event in Tokyo published...
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How US Laws Against Israel Boycotts Could Hit Ben & Jerry’s
A freezer full of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream with Hebrew lettering on the labels. (Linda Gradstein via JTA.org) By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON — Ben & Jerry’s decision this week to pull out of an...
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Britain’s Labour Party Bans Four Far-left Factions to Change Reputation on...
tzahiV / iStock / Getty Images Plus By Asaf Shalev The Labour Party in Britain has banned four far-left factions as part of an effort to address frustration about the party’s handling of antisemitism....
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Tokyo Olympics Creative Director Fired Over 1990s Comedy Skit Mocking the...
Wikimedia Commons. By Phillisa Cramer The creative director of the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony was fired after a Holocaust joke he made during a 1990s comedy skit drew attention this week. Kentaro...
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Jewish World Responds to Ben & Jerry’s
A freezer full of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream with Hebrew lettering on the labels. (Linda Gradstein via JTA.org) Kosher supermarkets are rethinking their inventory. Politicians are emptying their...
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Olympics Opening Ceremony Honors Israeli Athletes Murdered in Munich for...
Wikimedia Commons By Emily Burack For the first time ever, the Olympic Games held a moment of silence during the opening ceremony for the 11 Israeli athletes murdered during the Munich Olympics in...
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Australian Jewish Kayaker Jessica Fox Wins Bronze — Again — at Tokyo Olympics
The logo of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. By Emily Burack Jessica Fox, considered by many to be the greatest paddler of all time, was heavily favored to win gold in the...
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Jewish Vaulter Lilia Akhaimova Helps Russia to Gymnastics Gold in Tokyo
The logo of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. By Emily Burack Lilia Akhaimova, a Russian Jewish gymnast competing in her first Olympics, had the lowest all-around score on her...
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