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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 […]

French police detain woman for poster deemed antisemitic at COVID protest

August 10, 2021Jesse Orine

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Norwegian imam who has promoted interfaith dialogue said Jews should be killed

August 10, 2021Jesse Orine

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Russian scientist, 82, beaten on Moscow bus by assailant seeking to ‘finish Hitler’s job’

August 10, 2021Jesse Orine

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Ukraine grave of Rabbi Nachman’s daughter destroyed and desecrated with pig parts

August 10, 2021Jesse Orine

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British podcaster sentenced to nearly 3 years in jail for antisemitic remarks

August 10, 2021Jesse Orine

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This rabbi is tweeting his unusual 3-week Jewish heritage road trip through Turkey

August 9, 2021Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Few Jews know Turkey like Mendy Chitrik, a rabbi who oversees kosher certification in dozens of factories across the country. Over the past 20 years, Chitrik, a Chabad emissary who was born in Israel, has been logging thousands of miles annually across that country, which is larger than Texas and whose 12,000 Jews […]