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In Ukraine, bullet holes are found in a synagogue and a mass grave of Holocaust victims is desecrated – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

(JTA) — Politics was supposed to be a very brief interlude in Rashela Mizrahi’s career as a scientist. A 39-year-old Jewish fertility researcher from North Macedonia, she was appointed last year to serve for 100 days as the temporary minister of labor in her Balkan country, situated north of Greece. She was deemed a good […]

Non-Jewish man wearing yarmulke in solidarity with Jews is assaulted in Sweden – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — In Germany, a man wearing a kippah was beaten on the street. In Austria, a student was harassed on the train for reading a book mentioning Jews in the title.  In London, a nurse said she was threatened at her hospital for wearing a Star of David necklace. And in Belgium, an […]

Jaime Lerner, renowned Brazilian-Jewish urban planner and politician, dies at 84 – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

Jaime Lerner, renowned Brazilian-Jewish urban planner and politician, dies at 83 – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

Pope Francis kisses Holocaust survivor’s Auschwitz tattoo – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

(Detroit Jewish News via JTA) — On his way home for a surprise visit to see family and friends, Jewish journalist Danny Fenster was detained Monday in Myanmar, where he works for a news site in the country’s largest city of Yangon. Fenster is among the many journalists who have been detained, imprisoned or expelled […]

Man punched on Austrian train for asking passengers to stop denying the Holocaust – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement

To mitigate COVID-19 shortfall, Genesis Philanthropy Group donates $4 million to European Jewish institutions – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement