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![]() Cnaan LiphshizThe Times of Israel |
JTA — Archaeologists in the United Kingdom discovered findings from a medieval Jewish community of Oxford that they said were the earliest evidence...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The Netherlands’ foremost philosopher called the dispersal of Jews in the Diaspora a “blessing” because it prevented them...
JTA — A new synagogue opened in Babyn Yar, the park in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv commemorating a ravine where the Nazis and their collaborators...
JTA — In 1998, the now 90-year-old Lyubov Arkhiptsova-Volchek was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations – Israel’s title for non-Jews it...
JTA — The reassuring speeches, the morale-boosting flyovers and the evening balcony applause for medical staff have done little to impress...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Some 35,000 schoolchildren in the Netherlands got free matzah from the only matzah factory in the country as part of the...
JTA — A local politician in Poland used language that critics said was anti-Semitic during a regional council meeting about agriculture. “Why...
JTA — An interfaith cooking project by British Jews and Muslims is set to receive $13,700 originating from a donation by Meghan Markle, the American...
JTA — The Church of England apologized for a booklet that it published featuring prayers for the Thursday before Easter and recommendations to...
JTA — Baby dolls splashed with red paint were strung outside a synagogue in Sweden next to a sign that described Passover as a Jewish celebration of...
JTA — Police in Turkey say they have seized a 2,000-year-old Torah scroll in a coastal city 300 miles east of Istanbul. Separately, remnants of an...
JTA — Ahead of his first Passover in Azerbaijan, Rabbi Shneor Segal stocked up on kosher food for the holiday, when Jews are prohibited from eating...
PARIS — The Louvre museum in Paris said Friday it has put nearly half a million items from its collection online for the public to visit free of...
JTA — When it comes to consuming matzah, the Jews of the former Soviet Union are in a league of their own. At the top of the chart are...
JTA — A British university professor may have committed a hate crime when he labeled Jewish students “pawns” of Israel during a lecture, a...
JT — Jewish journalists, academics and other writers from across Europe have established a new magazine focused on the “current situation of...
JTA — Boris Spiegel, a Russian-Jewish pharmaceuticals mogul, has been arrested in Moscow in connection with a corruption investigation. Spiegel,...
JTA — A food delivery man in Rome was stabbed after telling a fellow courier to stop an anti-Semitic rant this weekend. The victim sustained...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — At 18, Itay Garmy made an unconventional choice for graduates of his large public high school in Amsterdam: He moved to Israel...
JTA — Ukraine will let in vaccinated pilgrims from Israel for Rosh Hashanah amid negotiations on Israeli deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines to Ukraine,...
JTA — The Interior Ministry of Iceland has added Judaism to its list of state-recognized religious and life-stance groups. The move earlier this...
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization said Wednesday its experts were still reviewing safety data on the AstraZeneca COVID-19...
JTA — A swastika and SS bolts were spray-painted on the entrance to a synagogue and Jewish community headquarters in Belarus, where such incidents...
JTA — Even among Jews in Poland, few are shocked at this point by the popular figurines of ultra-Orthodox Jews counting money that are sold in the...
JTA — Looking over an old family scrapbook several years ago, Laura Chanin saw a puzzling photograph of her paternal great-grandfather, Max Solomon,...
JTA — A senior lecturer at Ukraine’s oldest and most prestigious state university called on the government to rename the city of Uman for a Nazi...
JTA — Federal police in Brazil raided the church whose pastor had prayed with congregants for another Holocaust. Friday’s raid in Rio de Janeiro...
JTA — Following an outcry, a city in Norway reversed its decision not to let two Holocaust survivors move to the country’s only Jewish nursing...
JTA — Jewish students in Germany have raised more than $40,000 to help the owner of the kebab shop in Halle that was attacked after a neo-Nazi...
JTA — A city in Norway has refused to let two Holocaust survivors move to the country’s only Jewish nursing home in Oslo. The Skien municipality...
JTA — Changes to a United Kingdom bill on domestic abuse make it easier to punish Jewish husbands who refuse to grant a religious divorce, or get, a...
JTA — Last week, Mendy Axelrod was working to secure a supply of matzah for his Jewish community in Moldova ahead of Passover. It’s no easy task...
JTA — Large parts of the roof of a centuries-old crumbling former synagogue in Ukraine have collapsed. The latest damage to what remains of the...
JTA — On a visit to the city of Slonim in Belarus, Ilona Reeves fell in love with a 380-year-old dilapidated building that used to house one of the...
JTA — Russia has jailed a dual citizen of the country and Israel for his alleged ties to an opposition group and allegedly not declaring that he has...
JTA — The director of a British educational website has apologized for and pulled offline a homework assignment in which Jews were blamed in the...
Curriculum radicalization began under Erdogan following failed 2016 coup attempt; Israeli-Palestinian conflict described as a religious war against...
JTA — Lucy Shteyn is only 24 years old, but she already has firsthand knowledge of what awaits vocal critics of President Vladimir Putin in her...
JTA — As the leader of British Jewry’s main human rights group, Mia Hasenson-Gross regularly hears personal stories of loss, grief and...
JTA — The BBC has been accused of bias in its coverage of Israel for decades. Now the public broadcaster is taking flak from British Jews for...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — In Dutch supermarkets, no cookie aisle is fully stocked without a national treat called jodenkoeken, shortbread discs whose Dutch...
JTA — When she was 10 years old, Nechama Mayer-Hirsch sat down to make puppets for a Purim spiel and crafted one of the man responsible for her...
JTA — About 200 academics from the United Kingdom and the United States have signed a petition defending a British university lecturer who had...
JTA — The host of a popular game show on Bulgarian public TV quoted on air the anti-Semitic rantings of the late chess master Bobby Fischer, then...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The mayor of Amsterdam has asked a Dutch committee to reassess its decision on a Holocaust restitution claim that keeps a $22...
JTA — In a spate of anti-Semitic incidents in Western Europe, a swastika was carved into the door of a Swiss synagogue and a Jewish lawmaker in...
JTA — Bulgaria’s judicial system erred when it ignored complaints that a far-right politician was inciting to discriminate against Jews and Roma...
JTA — A Kazakhstani man who assaulted a Jewish man wearing a kippah in front a synagogue in Hamburg will not go to prison because he has psychiatric...