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Jewish Communities Worldwide Called to Action: ‘Spread the Light’ Initiative Commemorating Kristallnacht

October 30, 2024October 31, 2024Jesse Orine

Next week, the world will commemorate the 86th anniversary of the November Pogrom, commonly known as “Kristallnacht.” In light of this event, “Spread the Light” an initiative of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, and the Religious Kibbutz Movement calls upon Jewish communities across the globe to unite in a powerful act of remembrance and […]

Kyiv Jewish school damaged in early-morning Russian drone strike

October 30, 2024October 30, 2024Jesse Orine

KYIV, Ukraine — A Jewish school in the Ukrainian capital suffered “significant structural damage” after being hit by a Russian drone early on Wednesday, according to the Kyiv Jewish community operating the center. The Israeli ambassador in Ukraine, Michael Brodsky, and local authorities confirmed the strike on the Perlina school, part of the Or Avner […]

Poland’s Jewish museum marks its first decade, made tumultuous by politics

October 29, 2024October 29, 2024Jesse Orine

WARSAW, Poland — In the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, where Jews were killed and their neighborhood razed during World War II, a Jewish community has never recovered — but a museum has for a decade drawn visitors to learn about their history. The Polin Museum is marking 10 years since opening its exhibition […]

UK group urges families to ‘save a seat in the sukkah’ for hostages in Gaza, in a new take on a Jewish tradition

October 16, 2024October 16, 2024Jesse Orine

For centuries, Jews have symbolically invited the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to their sukkahs. More recently, many have made a custom of inviting Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah, too. This year, some will invite Omer, Matan, Itay and Liri. As Jews around the world prepare to celebrate the fall festival of Sukkot, the leading […]

Canadian crackdown on Israel-linked charities raises concerns in Jewish community

October 14, 2024October 14, 2024Jesse Orine

After Canadian tax authorities revoked the charitable status of the Ne’eman Foundation in August, the organization, which distributes funds to various causes in Israel, began instructing prospective donors to contribute through another recently formed Canadian charity. Six weeks later, Canadian officials imposed a one-year suspension on that charity, called the Emunim Fund, according to its […]

On tour in South America, Paul McCartney attends Yom Kippur services in Santiago, Chile

October 13, 2024October 13, 2024Jesse Orine

You could say he said sorry with a little help from his friends. Paul McCartney, the former Beatle, attended Yom Kippur services on Saturday with his Jewish wife in Santiago, Chile. He had performed a solo concert there on Friday night, the beginning of the Jewish holiday of atonement. Ariela Agosin, president of Chile Jewish […]

Historic Prague synagogue used on Yom Kippur for the first time since the Holocaust

October 13, 2024October 13, 2024Jesse Orine

For the first time since World War II, one of Prague’s most historic synagogues has held a Jewish worship service. Kol Nidre, the introductory service of Yom Kippur, took place in the Klausen Synagogue on Friday night, ending a hiatus that lasted more than 80 years and encompassed both the murder and suppression of Czech […]

Family recovers Monet pastel generations after Nazi looting

October 10, 2024October 11, 2024Jesse Orine

When Adalbert and Hilda Parlagi fled Vienna in 1938, a month after the Nazi annexation of Austria, they left behind a collection of artwork, which they and their heirs spent decades trying to retrieve. On Wednesday in New Orleans, FBI agents presented the couple’s grandchildren with one of the looted works: a pastel drawing by […]

‘Serve the nation, kill a Jew’ graffiti written on prominent Buenos Aires monument

October 10, 2024October 10, 2024Jesse Orine

An antisemitic slogan with a long history in Argentina was discovered graffitied onto a monument in a Buenos Aires park on Wednesday, unnerving local Jews. The graffiti, reading “Serve the nation, kill a Jew,” was inked onto a column of a monument to Simon Bolivar, historically considered “the Liberator” of South America, in Parque Rivadavia […]

Lily Ebert, Holocaust survivor who became a TikTok sensation, dies at 100

October 9, 2024October 9, 2024Jesse Orine

Lily Ebert, the Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor who educated millions on TikTok and cultivated a late-in-life friendship with King Charles III, died Wednesday at her home in London. She was 100. Ebert’s death was announced by her great-grandson Dov Forman, who helped make her into a social media phenomenon in her final years. “In the face […]