A canceled flight on his way to assume his new job might well have added urgency around one of Rabbi Axel Wahnish’s first big breakthroughs as Argentina’s ambassador to Israel: direct flights between Tel Aviv and Buenos Aires. Wahnish, the personal rabbi of Argentine President Javier Milei, was originally scheduled to depart from Buenos Aires […]
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It’s film festival season in New York, and dozens of Jewish and Israeli movies will be showing across the city in June — many premiering in New York or the United States for the first time. With the Israeli Film Center Festival at the Marlene Meyerson JCC, the annual Sephardic Jewish Film Festival, and the granddaddy […]
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Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian involved in Poland’s recent efforts to revise Holocaust history to minimize the role of local collaborators, has been elected president of Poland. Nawrocki eked out a narrow victory over Rafał Trzaskowski, Warsaw’s liberal-centrist mayor, in a runoff election on Sunday. His election marks a return to power for the Law […]
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Vandals covered three Jewish sites in Paris with green paint late Friday night, in an act that has unsettled French Jews. The paint covered walls of the Agoudas Hakehilos synagogue and the Tournelles synagogue as well as the Shoah Memorial for French victims of the Holocaust. The three sites are located within several blocks of […]
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His bandmate Johnny Greenwood has become one of the most vocal non-Jewish artists rejecting pressure to boycott Israel over its war in Gaza. But famously reticent Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke had not said anything about the war — until now. On Friday, Yorke posted an extended statement to Instagram lamenting the pressure he had faced […]
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(JR) — Poland is heading to the polls in a neck-and-neck presidential election that will shape the country’s future on the world stage — and its approach to history. On Sunday, voters are casting their ballots in the decisive runoff between Rafał Trzaskowski, the liberal-centrist mayor of Warsaw, and Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian who […]
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(JR) — Poland is heading to the polls in a neck-and-neck presidential election that will shape the country’s future on the world stage — and its approach to history. On Sunday, voters are casting their ballots in the decisive runoff between Rafał Trzaskowski, the liberal-centrist mayor of Warsaw, and Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian who […]
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A French parliamentary committee unanimously approved a bill this week to posthumously promote Alfred Dreyfus, more than 130 years after he was framed for treason in one of the defining antisemitic incidents of the 19th century. In what became known as the Dreyfus affair, Dreyfus, a Jewish French army captain, was falsely accused of espionage […]
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It isn’t hard to find members of Neturei Karta, the anti-Zionist activist Orthodox group, in New York City. They show up, habitually, at both anti- and pro-Israel rallies, either as protesters or counter-protesters. And they reliably wear the same outfits — traditional haredi Orthodox dress combined with pro-Palestinian symbols and signs declaring that authentic Judaism […]
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland — On Saturdays, the Jewish day of rest, there is barely a quorum of 10 for prayers at the old synagogue in Northern Ireland’s capital city. But every other Wednesday, the place is hopping. A gaggle of seniors gathers for lectures, conversation, lunch and socializing. Only some of them are Jewish. “I […]
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