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Jewish Coronavirus Updates: Immigration to Israel Continues
People wear face masks in Times Square in New York City, March 3, 2020, after the city confirmed cases of the rapidly spreading coronavirus. (Eduardo Munoz/VIEWpress via Getty Images) By JTA Staff The...
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Jewish Coronavirus Updates: Death Toll Mounts
Alexander Shelegov /iStock / Getty Images Plus By JTA Staff The spread of COVID-19, a new coronavirus, is reshaping Jewish communities. We’re collecting the news flowing in from across the globe here....
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Jewish Coronavirus Updates: Mikvah Reverses Course and More
Simon Lehmann / iStock / Getty Images Plus By JTA Staff The spread of COVID-19, a new coronavirus, is reshaping Jewish communities. We’re collecting the news flowing in from across the globe here....
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Hillel International Lays Off or Furloughs 20% of Staff
Hillel President Adam Lehman, right, said the pandemic’s implications are producing “a very challenging and uncertain fundraising and financial outlook for the future.” (Courtesy of Hillel...
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Auschwitz Museum Says Preserved Historic Site Different From Statues
0Auschwitz in 2005. (Photo by Alexandre MARCHI/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images, via JTA.org) By Marcy Oster The Auschwitz Memorial and Museum waded into the current debate over tearing down statues of...
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‘Spanish Schindler,’ Who Reportedly Saved Over 5,000 Jews, Given Online Tribute
A mural of Ángel Sanz Briz was painted in 2016 in Budapest. (Gobierno de Espana, via JTA.org) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Angel Sanz Briz, a Spanish diplomat who reportedly saved over 5,000 Jews from...
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2 Suspects to Stand Trial in Killing of Paris Holocaust Survivor
French President Emmanuel Macron at the funeral for Mirelle Knoll, March 28, 2018. (Abraham Ben Isaac/Twitter, via JTA.org) By Marcy Oster Two men who allegedly killed and robbed a Holocaust survivor...
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Jewish Fraternity at Scotland University Suspends Members After Sexual...
St. Salvator’s Quad at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. (Remi Mathis/Wikimedia Commons, via JTA.org) By Marcy Oster A historically Jewish fraternity at a university in Scotland has suspended...
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Spain Adopts International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s Definition of...
Spain has been part of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance since 2008 and is one of 34 member countries. (Pixabay, via JTA.org) By Marcy Oster The government of Spain has adopted the...
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Former Concentration Camp Guard, 93, Gets Suspended Sentence
HAMBURG, GERMANY – Bruno Dey, 93-year-old former SS security guard from the Stutthof concentration camp near Gdansk sits in a courtroom behind a plexiglass window next to his lawyer Stefan Waterkamp...
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Thousands Join 48-Hour #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate Twitter Boycott
After British actress Tracy-Ann Oberman called for a 48-hour boycott of Twitter to protest anti-Semitism on the platform, many British politicians joined in. (Twitter, via JTA.org) By Marcy Oster and...
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Security Guard Disarms Ax-Wielding Man Inside Ukraine Synagogue
An ax taken from an intruder by a security guard at the synagogue of Mariupol, Ukraine on July 28. (Christians for Israel, via JTA.org) By Cnaan Liphshiz A security guard at a Ukraine synagogue...
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Door That Held Back Halle Synagogue Gunman Removed, Will Become Part of Memorial
Visitors at the synagogue in Halle the day after a gunman targeted the house of worship in eastern Germany in October 2019. (Jens Schlueter/Getty Images via JTA.org) By Marcy Oster Now pockmarked with...
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Holocaust Survivors Launch Campaign to Fight Holocaust Denial on Facebook
(Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images via JTA.org) By Toby Axelrod BERLIN – Joining a growing chorus of critical voices, Holocaust survivors have launched an international online campaign...
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Twitter Permanently Suspends British Rapper Wiley Over Tweets Seen as...
Wiley, seen in a 2018 performance, (Ollie Millington/Redferns/Getty Images, via JTA.org) By Marcy Oster The Twitter account of the British rapper Wiley has been permanently suspended following a...
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Berlin Rally Against Coronavirus Rules Features Neo-Nazi Supporters,...
Some protesters at a Berlin rally compared coronavirus restrictions to Nazi rules on Aug. 1. (Photo by Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images, via JTA.org) By Toby Axelrod BERLIN – A rally...
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Report: Facebook Announces Increased Ad Revenue Even as ADL-led Boycott...
Facebook logo is displayed on a mobile phone screen photographed for illustration photo in Krakow, Poland. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto, via JTA.org) By Marcy Oster The advertiser boycott that the...
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Israeli Hockey Captain Signs to Play in Oswiecim, Otherwise Known as Auschwitz
Eliezer Sherbatov, second from right, pictured in 2015, has signed to play for the hockey team in Oswiecim, Poland. (Raffi Kirdi/WireImage, via JTA.org) By Philissa Cramer When the captain of Israel’s...
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Kazakhstan Adds Chabad Leader’s Grave to National Heritage Sites List
Men pray around the grave site of Levi Yitzchak Schneerson in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 2016. (Courtesy of Chabad Kazakhstan, via JTA.org) By Cnaan Liphshiz The government of Kazakhstan added the gravesite...
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Hungary’s Largest Jewish Group Expels Rabbi Who Said Zionism is Causing...
Rabbi Peter Finali speaks at a Budapest synagogue in 2016. (Peter Finali/YouTube, via JTA.org) By Cnaan Lipshshiz Hungary’s largest Jewish group expelled a rabbi who has accused Israel of appropriating...
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