Sasha Chanoff recalls the day he was forced to make one of the most painful decisions of his life. It was 2000, only six years after the genocide in Rwanda, and Chanoff — a Finnish-born Jew working with the International Organization for Migration — was sent to neighboring Congo on a risky mission: drive to […]
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What could cinema and criminal justice possibly have in common? Cinema thrives on blending the truth of art with the truth of life, while criminal justice is supposed to exclude any form of fiction. In reality, though, things aren’t so straightforward. For this article about the case of Jewish scientist Dr. Oleg Maltsev, we decided […]
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ISTANBUL — Turkey’s Jewish community is mourning after Isak Haleva, chief rabbi since 2002, died at 84 on Tuesday. Haleva was the 35th person to hold the title of Hahambaşi, by which the chief rabbis of both the modern Turkish Republic and the Ottoman empire have been known since the position was established after the […]
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Nearly half of adults around the world have “elevated levels of antisemitic attitudes,” the Anti-Defamation League reported in its latest global survey of anti-Jewish beliefs. In addition, the survey found that one-fifth of the world has not heard of the Holocaust. About half accept the Holocaust’s historical truth. Known as the Global 100, the survey […]
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For the first time since its inauguration more than a decade ago, the prize dubbed the “Jewish Nobel” is going to a non-Jew: Javier Milei, the president of Argentina. Milei’s selection marks another first for the Genesis Prize Foundation: the first prize given to a head of state, a departure for an award that has […]
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British authorities told a London Chabad center to refrain from fundraising for the Israeli military because doing so is against the law, according to an official warning issued Wednesday. The Chabad Lubavitch Centres North East London and Essex raised about $2,300 for a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces in late 2023. The group’s modest […]
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Two synagogues in Sydney were defaced on consecutive days with swastikas and other antisemitic language. Police are investigating the attacks, which come at a time of heightened antisemitism in Australia, and about a month after a synagogue in Melbourne was torched in what the country’s leaders called an antisemitic attack. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese […]
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A planned pro-Palestinian march in London is rebuffing police orders to move its starting point after complaints that it will disrupt a nearby synagogue’s Shabbat services. The rally by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign is due to begin at the headquarters of the BBC on Saturday, Jan. 18, at noon, and then move toward Whitehall, the […]
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Lebanon has elected a new president after two years of political indecision, but not before some unexpected characters received votes — including Sen. Bernie Sanders, an American Jew. Lebanon’s president is elected by the parliament for a six-year term and, under the country’s system, must be a Maronite Christian. The eventual victor was the country’s […]
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A memorial to Jews deported from the Warsaw Ghetto was defaced with graffiti appearing to equate the Holocaust with the war in Gaza. The graffiti makes Warsaw’s Umschlagplatz memorial the latest of a string of Holocaust monuments to be vandalized with anti-Israel messages. The marble structure commemorates the spot where hundreds of thousands of Jews […]
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