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In Brazil, Pro-Palestinian Protest Leads to Injury and Arrest at Pro-Israel...
Andre Lajst leads the Brazil chapter of StandWithUs, a Zionist advocacy organization. (Courtesy of StandWithUs Brazil via JTA.org) RIO DE JANEIRO — Pro-Palestinian protesters injured a university...
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Windows Shattered at Headquarters of Holocaust Memorial Site Foundation in...
Windows at the Foundation for Memorial Sites in Lower Saxony, in the town of Celle, Germany, were found vandalized on Aug. 15. (Foundation for Memorial Sites in Lower Saxony via JTA.org) Toby Axelrod...
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Argentina’s Shocking Primary Winner Could Become the Country’s First Jewish...
Javier Milei delivers a speech at a campaign event in Buenos Aires on Aug. 7. (Luis Robayo/AFP via Getty Images) Juan Melamed and Gabe Friedman BUENOS AIRES — Argentina has never had a Jewish...
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Paraguay Moves its Israeli Embassy Back to Jerusalem
Jacob Kessler Paraguay’s newly-elected president, Santiago Peña, announced Wednesday that he is moving his country’s embassy back to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. The move is expected to take place by the...
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5 Jewish Facts About Guatemala’s New Hebrew-speaking President
Jacob Kessler Guatemala elected a new president on Sunday: Bernardo Arevalo, a center-left former congressman and son of a former president. In an election that was marred by controversy — and included...
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Mikvah Discovered in Basement of Former Strip Club in Poland
The former synagogue in Chmielnik, Poland. (Wojciech Domagała/Wikimedia Commons via JTA.org) Jacob Gurvis Before the Holocaust, the population of the town of Chmielnik, Poland, was around 80% Jewish....
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A Pastrami Sandwich Is a New Star of Tokyo’s Hip Food Scene
Jeremy Freeman in his kitchen. (Jordyn Haime via JTA.org) Jordyn Haime TOKYO — Smoky flavor has always tasted like home for Jeremy Freeman. Growing up in New York City, smoked salmon was of course a...
View ArticleAustria’s Plans for Hitler’s Birth House Stir Controversy
Toby Axelrod BERLIN — Plans to turn Hitler’s birth house into a police station have turned a small Austrian town upside down. The local administration of Branau announced Monday its concrete plans to...
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Malka Leifer, Australian Day School Principal Convicted of Child Sex Abuse,...
Malka Leifer, a former Australian day school principal convicted of dozens of cases of sexual abuse of girls at the school, seen on a screen via a video link during a court hearing at the Jerusalem...
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Russian Court Extends Pretrial Detention of Jewish Journalist Evan...
U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich stands inside a defendants’ cage at Moscow City Court on June 22. (Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images via JTA.org) Jackie Hajdenberg A Russian court has...
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Libyan Foreign Minister Is Fired, Flees to Turkey After Meeting Israeli...
Ben Sales Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush was fired and fled to Turkey following a meeting last week with Israel’s foreign minister, Eli Cohen. Libya and Israel do not have diplomatic relations,...
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Iran Bans Weightlifter for Life After He Took a Photo with an Israeli Opponent
Iran’s athlete delegation at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. (Lu Lin/CHINASPORTS/VCG via Getty Images via JTA.org) Jacob Gurvis Iran’s weightlifting federation banned one of its athletes for life after he...
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Survivor Group Claims Victory After Christie’s Cancels Jewelry Auction Linked...
Christie’s international head of jewelry Rahul Kadakia presents an item from the collection of Heidi Horten ahead of auction in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 8. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images via...
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More Than 20,000 Israelis Sought Portuguese Nationality Last Year
(Horacio Villalobos/Corbis via Getty Images via JTA.org) Shira Li Bartov More Israelis applied for Portuguese citizenship than any other foreign group over the past two years, even though few choose to...
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After Leading Minister Joked About Nazis, Finland Moves to Criminalize...
Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo attends a press conference in Berlin on July 14. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images via JTA.org) Andrew Lapin The government of Finland agreed on a policy to combat racism...
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Barcelona Resumes ‘Sister City’ Relationship with Tel Aviv, Reversing Former...
Orge Castellano Six months after Barcelona’s then-mayor severed the Spanish city’s relationship with Tel Aviv over what she said were Israel’s “apartheid” practices, her successor is renewing the ties....
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A Serbian City’s Jewish Community Barely Survived the Holocaust. Now it Might...
A view of Novi Sad from the Petrovaradin Fortress. Zoran Strajin/Wikimedia Commons via JTA.org Larry Luxner In the heart of downtown in Serbia’s second-largest city, nestled between brick buildings on...
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Jewish Federations Launch Rosh Hashanah Letter-writing Campaign to Evan...
U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich stands inside a defendants’ cage at Moscow City Court on June 22. (Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images via JTA.org) Jackie Hajdenberg Since he was...
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Ireland’s First Kosher Restaurant in Decades Attracts Local Jews and...
Courtesy of 613 Deli via JTA.org Jacob Judah The first kosher delicatessen to open in Ireland in over half a century is proving a surprise hit among Dubliners since it opened its doors in March — and...
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Newly Discovered Document Lists More Than 3,000 Jews the Catholic Church...
Documents on the pontificate of Pope Pius XII are seen at the Vatican Secret Archives in Vatican City, Vatican, on Feb. 27, 2020. The Vatican Apostolic Library opened the Holy See’s wartime archives on...
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