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Jewish humanitarian groups step in, or try to, as crises unfold in Haiti and Afghanistan

August 16, 2021Jesse Orine

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Poland officially approves law that limits Holocaust restitution claims, sparking global Jewish outrage

August 15, 2021Jesse Orine

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Film director Ken Loach says UK Labour Party expelled him for not ‘disowning’ those ejected over antisemitism

August 15, 2021Jesse Orine

Film director Ken Loach says UK Labour Party expelled him for not ‘disowning’ those ejected over antisemitism – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

Welsh synagogue’s stained glass windows resurface in British man’s backyard shed

August 15, 2021Jesse Orine

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Historic Welsh synagogue’s long-lost stained-glass windows resurface in British man’s award-winning shed

August 15, 2021Jesse Orine

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France joins US and others in boycott of UN ‘Durban’ conference over concerns of antisemitism

August 13, 2021Jesse Orine

(JTA) — France has joined a growing list of countries that will boycott a United Nations anti-racism conference next month over concerns that the gathering will promote antisemitism. The United States, Israel, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia are among the others that have announced a boycott of the Sept. 22 event, according to The […]

Ukraine OKs Uman pilgrimage for vaccinated arrivals

August 13, 2021Jesse Orine

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‘All the cliches on the table’: Germany’s ‘Friday Night Jews’ talk show uses humor to familiarize Germans with Jewish culture

August 11, 2021Jesse Orine

BERLIN (JTA) — “Jude, Jude, Jude einfach nur ein Wort.” The phrase — “Jew, Jew, Jew is just a word” — comes near the start of the opening rap theme song to the German talk show “Freitagnacht Jews” (“Friday Night Jews”), a state-sponsored program aimed at broadening the German public’s understanding of Jews and questions […]

After controversy, Belgian town square to remove references to Latvian Nazi collaborators

August 11, 2021Jesse Orine

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Filmmakers constructed an acre-sized shtetl for a Ukrainian WWII film. Now they want to preserve it as a museum.

August 11, 2021Jesse Orine

(JTA) — In the woods of northern Ukraine, construction workers have built an island in time: a shtetl. That’s the Yiddish word for the type of old-fashioned Jewish towns that existed throughout Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. This new shtetl, comprising 18 buildings on more than an acre of land near the lakeside town of […]