When Haroun got the phone call he had been waiting on for almost 10 years, he told the caller to hang up. It was too risky for a Jew in Iran to take such a call — authorities could be monitoring his phone. “Call me back on WhatsApp,” he said, putting faith in the messaging […]
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WARSAW (JR) — In the center of Poland’s capital, a brick wall separates the humming traffic of Okopowa Street from a quiet wilderness filled with graves. This is Warsaw’s main Jewish cemetery and one of the largest in Europe, a sprawling forest of 83 acres and the final resting place of some 200,000 Jews. Since […]
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Landmarks around the world were illuminated in orange on Wednesday night to honor Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, the Israeli mother and sons killed in captivity in Gaza. The three were buried on Wednesday, several days after their bodies were returned to Israel. Their husband and father, Yarden Bibas, was taken captive separately and freed […]
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In the two days since Israel joined the United States to vote against a United Nations resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s faced more than a little backlash. Now, the country’s foreign minister, Gideon Saar, has said the vote was a bid to align Israel’s stance with the efforts of its closest ally, the […]
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Even as tensions between Israel and Syria ramped up in recent days, a small group of Syrian Jews recently celebrated a milestone that once seemed unthinkable: a return visit to their home country. Under the auspices of the new Syrian government, a small delegation toured Jewish heritage sites in and around Damascus last week, just […]
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Police in Sydney have charged a local nurse in connection with a viral video from earlier this month that appeared to show her and a colleague threatening to kill Israeli patients and boasting about refusing to treat them. Sarah Abu Lebdeh, 26, who worked at Bankstown Hospital, was charged with three offenses: threatening violence; using […]
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BERLIN — A powerful film about an Israeli family’s ordeal since the Hamas terror attack of Oct. 7, 2023 has won the top documentary prize at this year’s Berlinale film festival, one year after a film about West Bank Palestinians took home the same award. “Holding Liat,” a U.S. production that held its world premiere […]
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When Russian troops invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Yuliia, 26, a Jewish single mother of three from Kherson, barely had time to flee her hometown before it fell to Russian control. After reaching relative safety in nearby Mykolaiv, Yuliia worried about how she’d support herself and her children. Previously a census taker for the […]
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As Ukraine’s Jews face a future awash in uncertainty, some are turning to a realm they can control — the language and rituals that define their identity. Rabbi Irina Gritsevskaya, who leads the Masorti movement in Ukraine, published the first Ukrainian translation of a children’s prayer book in January. Titled “Singing of the Heart” in […]
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German authorities have arrested a 19-year-old suspect in a Friday stabbing attack at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial. The arrest of the suspect, a Syrian citizen who, according to police, said he wanted to kill Jews, came shortly after the Thursday arrest of another teenager, a Russian citizen accused of plotting an attack on the Israeli embassy […]
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