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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

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A haredi Orthodox ‘City of Torah’ is planned in Mexico, first in Latin America

June 28, 2021Jesse Orine

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67 headstones damaged at Jewish cemetery in Poland

June 28, 2021Jesse Orine

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Eva Schloss, who had fled Austria as a child and later befriended Anne Frank, reclaims citizenship at 92

June 25, 2021Jesse Orine

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Hungarian Jews protest ‘gay propaganda law’

June 25, 2021Jesse Orine

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Sen. Chuck Schumer asks UK not to take 2-year-old Jewish girl off life support

June 25, 2021Jesse Orine

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In Poland, a bill to limit Holocaust restitution advances in parliament

June 24, 2021Jesse Orine

(JTA) — The Polish parliament has advanced a bill that would limit the ability of claimants to seek restitution for property they owned during the Holocaust, triggering a fresh diplomatic spat involving Israel and the United States. Under the measure, which passed its first reading on Thursday, courts may consider appeals regarding administrative decisions only […]