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100-year-old former Nazi camp guard to stand trial as accessory to murder of 3,500 prisoners

August 3, 2021Jesse Orine

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Azerbaijan opens trade office in Tel Aviv in preparation for future opening of embassy

August 2, 2021Jesse Orine

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British government okays contested Holocaust monument in London

August 2, 2021Jesse Orine

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Princess Diana’s niece marries fashion tycoon of South African Jewish descent

August 2, 2021Jesse Orine

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Jewish groups slam Brazilian president’s warm welcome to granddaughter of Hitler’s finance minister

July 30, 2021Jesse Orine

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Popular Argentine TV show uses Anne Frank image to illustrate song about ‘women who don’t leave the house’

July 30, 2021Jesse Orine

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Top Israeli judokas fail to medal at Tokyo Olympics

July 30, 2021Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Team Israel won’t be repeating its Olympics success in judo from 2016, when two of its judokas won bronze medals in Rio. In Tokyo this summer, there will be no individual medals in a sport in which Israel has won five of the nation’s 10 total Olympic medals. Or “Ori” Sasson, the 2016 […]

Nigeria frees 3 Jewish filmmakers who had been held for weeks in ‘horrendous conditions’

July 29, 2021Jesse Orine

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Antisemitic mural appears after Dutch soccer star signs with ‘Jewish’ team Ajax

July 28, 2021Jesse Orine

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A gold mikveh, a Judaica museum and a ballroom: Taiwan to get its Jewish community center

July 28, 2021Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Seven years ago, the lone Chabad rabbi in Taiwan reached out to Jeffrey Schwartz, a Jewish businessman and philanthropist who had helped fund the country’s small Jewish institutions for years. The rabbi, Shlomi Tabib, was wondering if Schwartz could fund the construction of a mikveh, a ritual bath in which Orthodox women immerse […]