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JTA — Shayndi Raice, a Wall Street Journal reporter based in Israel, is hoping that Jews around the world dedicate a portion of their Passover seder...
JTA — For Michal Stamova, the challenge of translating Passover’s core text into Ukrainian started with the title. The Haggadah — the book...
BERLIN (JTA) — Novelist Ruby Namdar’s appearance at a major conference of European Jewish leaders wasn’t meant to include a speech to an empty...
JTA — Ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming visit to London, the United Kingdom’s chief rabbi is calling for “Jewish...
JTA — Bulgaria’s president was on hand on March 10 for a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the country’s dramatic decision to save its...
ISTANBUL (JTA) — Turkish Jewish leaders say they are taking action after students at Istanbul’s Üsküdar American Academy reportedly performed...
JTA — After a century-old synagogue in Essen, Germany, was struck by two bullets last November, news reports connected it to the shooting at a...
JTA — Starting on Monday, many Jews around the world will celebrate Purim in the same ways: by reading the story of the heroic Queen Esther,...
JTA — Albania’s prime minister announced plans to open a museum in Tirana dedicated to the stories of its citizens who saved Jews during the...
JTA — A Polish priest with a long track record of antisemitic comments has been sentenced to community service after being convicted of insulting...
JTA — As their numbers dwindle, Bosnia’s Jewish community is creating an archive of Balkan Jewish history, including documents, photographs,...
ISTANBUL, Turkey (JTA) — Istanbul police have arrested 15 suspects connected to the Islamic State terror group, who were allegedly plotting to...
JTA — Germany held a ceremony to celebrate the first German-Jewish sites to be given UNESCO’s World Heritage designation on Wednesday. The sites...
JTA — Stephen Sizer, a retired British vicar who once claimed Jews and Israel were behind 9/11, was banned from the Anglican ministry for 12 years...
JTA — The French government updated its plan for fighting antisemitism and racism, which will require teachers to receive training on the topic and...
JTA — A Muslim man put off a protest that would have involved burning a Torah scroll in front of Stockholm’s Israeli embassy this past weekend....
ISTANBUL (JTA) — Dozens of Orthodox Jews gathered on a hill overlooking the Bosphorus Strait. Above them, guarding the hilltop, stood a Turkish...
JTA — Just before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Milan’s Holocaust memorial debuted an eye-grabbing new addition on some of its exterior...
JTA — David Bowie, Greta Garbo and Sean Connery were not Jewish. But some of the garments they made famous — Bowie’s dresses, Garbo’s hats and...
JTA — Grigory Kanovich, a Lithuanian-born Jew and award-winning author who endeavored to tell the story of his people despite Soviet pressure, died...
JTA — Adolfo Kaminsky, the French-Jewish photographer, forger, smuggler, and resistance fighter who saved thousands of people during the Holocaust...
JTA — An exodus of Jews from Russia since President Vladimir Putin invaded neighboring Ukraine has drawn widespread attention over the last year....
IZMIR, Turkey (JTA) — Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Prague has been a popular tourist destination for both Jewish travelers and others...
JTA — The zoo in Cologne, Germany, has gotten its first check from the $26 million gift promised by the widow of a Holocaust survivor who credited...
JTA — Just a few years ago, Oman was expected to be next in line after Morocco, Sudan, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates to sign onto...
JTA — Lithuania’s parliament passed a law this week to set aside over 37 million Euros ($38 million) as restitution for Holocaust survivors and...
JTA — Jewish leaders in Italy had strong words for the president of the country’s parliament after he published a post on Instagram honoring the...
ISTANBUL (JTA) — “Shtisel,” a TV series about ultra-Orthodox Jews that became an international phenomenon after Netflix picked it up in 2018, is...
JTA — Israel’s National Library accepted 22 volumes of archives from the Irish Jewish Family History Database, which tracks over three centuries...
JTA — Lord David Young, a British-Jewish member of the House of Lords who advised Conservative governments in the United Kingdom from Margaret...
JTA — When Russian troops poured across the Ukrainian border in March, thousands fled from the cities that would be first in their path. But in...
JTA — An Israeli professor was asked by the host of a French TV news show why he publicly identifies his religion by wearing a kippa in a clip that...
JTA — Nearly 130 Finnish artists will not be working with Kiasma, the modern art wing of Finland’s national gallery, they announced, in protest of...
JTA — Many in the Libyan-Jewish diaspora know that even if they return to Libya someday, they would never again be able to visit the graves of their...
JTA — Lithuania’s prime minister made what one Jewish organization called an ”important step” earlier this month by introducing legislation to...
JTA — Qatar may have caused an uproar by banning alcohol at the World Cup soccer tournament in Doha this month, but for religious Jewish fans, some...