(JTA) — Even before its $8.35 million renovation, the Manchester Jewish Museum was a remarkably eye-catching institution. Housed in a former synagogue on a busy road in an industrial part of northern England’s largest city, it stood out from the car washes, supermarkets and hardware stores of Cheetham Hill Road thanks to its red-brick facade. […]
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Polish rallygoer who led chants about hanging ‘Zionists’ sentenced to 1 year in jail, an unusually stiff punishment – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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(JTA) — In 2018, a caravan of Central American migrants approached the United States through Mexico, stoking both fears and compassion. Ariel Koren, an interpreter who was translating for separated families near the U.S.-Mexico border at the time, saw a bureaucracy intent on discouraging immigration by making the process nearly impossible for non-English speakers. She […]
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(JTA) — Vladimir Putin clearly likes to talk about Jews and Israel. This time he suggested that Israel offered a good model for his designs on Ukraine. The Russian president’s previous remarks about Jews include the joke he told at a panel on energy in 2017, about a smartass Israeli soldier who was quizzed by […]
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In restitution protest, young Polish ultranationalists leave chunks of brick walls outside Israel’s embassy in Warsaw – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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MADRID (JTA) — Matilde Gini de Barnatán and her daughter Viviana Rajel Barnatán didn’t set out to make Jewish history in Spain. In the 1960s and ’70s, Matilde, now 85, established herself in Argentina as a prominent researcher, teacher and scholar of the history of Sephardic culture and the Spanish Inquisition in Ibero-America. Her extensive […]
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Teenagers shatter 19th-century synagogue’s windows in Romania – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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Reuven Bulka, Ottawa rabbi behind a Canadian week dedicated to kindness, dies at 77 – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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A haredi Orthodox ‘City of Torah’ is planned in Mexico, first in Latin America – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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67 headstones damaged at Jewish cemetery in Poland – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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