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As protests over Jared Kushner’s Albania resort grow, antisemitic messages emerge on the sidelines

June 25, 2026June 25, 2026Jesse Orine

TIRANA, Albania — The massive daily street protests rocking this Balkan capital began May 31 as a public outpouring of anger against a $4 billion coastal resort proposed by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — and quickly snowballed into demands for the resignation of longtime Prime Minister Edi Rama. Somewhere along the way, not-so-subtle […]

German school named for Albanian who saved Jews sends students to Tirana for Holocaust remembrance

March 16, 2026March 16, 2026Jesse Orine

TIRANA, Albania — Sixteen-year-old Melisa Malo, a 10th-grader at the Gjimnazi Sami Frashëri here, first learned about the Holocaust four years ago when she attended an Albanian-language stage performance of “The Diary of Anne Frank.” That evening, her parents told her how ordinary Muslims and Christians in Albania — an isolated Balkan nation with no […]

In Albania, which saved Jews from the Nazis, educators teach the Holocaust to a new generation

September 12, 2024October 4, 2024Jesse Orine

ELBASAN, Albania — Isaac Herzog’s visit to Albania Thursday marked the first time an Israeli leader set foot in the only European country that ended World War II with more Jews than it started with. Albania’s role in saving Jews during the Holocaust was a key theme of the Israeli president’s brief visit, which included […]