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Belarus president says Jews got the world to ‘bow before them’ after the Holocaust

July 6, 2021Jesse Orine

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Leading Chilean presidential candidate Daniel Jadue faces accusations of antisemitism

July 6, 2021Jesse Orine

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Manchester’s revamped Jewish museum celebrates the community that left it behind

July 2, 2021Jesse Orine

(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. […]

Polish rallygoer who led chants about hanging ‘Zionists’ sentenced to 1 year in jail, an unusually stiff punishment

July 2, 2021Jesse Orine

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

These Jewish activists work as translators for migrants to fight ‘language violence’

July 2, 2021Jesse Orine

(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 […]

Putin holds up Israel as a model of unity for Ukrainians and Russians

July 1, 2021Jesse Orine

(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 […]

In restitution protest, young Polish ultranationalists leave chunks of brick walls outside Israel’s embassy in Warsaw

July 1, 2021Jesse Orine

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For 35 years, this mother-daughter duo has run a radio show on Ladino and Sephardic Jewish culture from Madrid

July 1, 2021Jesse Orine

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 […]

Teenagers shatter 19th-century synagogue’s windows in Romania

June 30, 2021Jesse Orine

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Reuven Bulka, Ottawa rabbi behind a Canadian week dedicated to kindness, dies at 77

June 29, 2021Jesse Orine

Reuven Bulka, Ottawa rabbi behind a Canadian week dedicated to kindness, dies at 77 – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement