My beautiful home of Zambia is a vast landscape with rugged rural regions, where many people are living without the ordinary things you and I take for granted. One of those things is contraception. For many women in Zambia, contraception is hard to come by. Sometimes this is because the women live in remote areas […]
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Justin Trudeau said Canada’s government would not tolerate antisemitism after a violent pro-Palestinian demonstration in Montreal where protesters burned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in effigy. The Canadian prime minister was one of several officials to condemn the protest, which opposed a NATO conference on Friday night and after which three protesters were arrested. It […]
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She claimed Auschwitz was just a work camp, not a death camp, and that nobody had been gassed to death there. She challenged a German court to prove that the Nazis committed mass murder, and declared on TV that the Holocaust was “the biggest and most sustainable lie in history.” She spent years in prison, […]
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Police in Argentina have seized a trove of Nazi weapons and memorabilia, including dozens of guns, uniforms and busts of Hitler, in their latest discovery of Nazi relics in a country that gave refuge to Nazi leaders. The federal police’s anti-mafia division uncovered the items during a raid Friday in Quilmes, a city near Buenos […]
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Pierre Goldman was a figure of legend in 1970s France — a firebrand leftist intellectual, a criminal, a child of the Holocaust, and a man accused of murders that remain shrouded in mystery to this day. “The Goldman Case,” a French courtroom drama that homes in on Goldman’s 1976 retrial for murder, has thrust him […]
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Following violence against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam last week, France has thrown heavy policing muscle behind a soccer match with Israel on Thursday. The UEFA Nations League game between France and Israel at the Stade de France stadium in Paris is being guarded by 4,000 officers and 1,600 stadium staff, according to Paris police […]
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(JR) — Late on Thursday night, Esther Voet heard explosions from her home in the center of Amsterdam. Voet, who is the editor in chief of a Dutch Jewish weekly newspaper, quickly learned that she was hearing heavy fireworks — set off in anger, not celebration. Panicked messages began pouring into her phone from a […]
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Cantor Jennifer Bern-Vogel was used to hearing her mother tell the story. On the evening of Nov. 9, 1938, her mother, then Marianne Katzenstein, who was 16 at the time, was in her family’s synagogue in Bielefeld, Germany, practicing the organ. She finished up, used a key to lock the building and returned home. Later […]
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This is a developing story. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had dispatched two planes to Amsterdam to rescue Israeli soccer fans beset by mobs after a game between Ajax, a local team, and Maccabi Tel Aviv, an Israeli team. Videos that circulated on WhatsApp and were shared by the Israeli embassy in the […]
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The Maltsev case has quickly become a matter of intense public interest. What started as a legal issue in Ukraine has now captured attention well beyond the country, fueled in part by the #FreeUkrainianScientist campaign online. Yet, it’s not just the growing support on social media that keeps people following this case. The investigation itself […]
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