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Shira Li Bartov

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

In the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, locals get a lesson in the 1,000-year history of Polish Jews, who numbered 3 million before the Holocaust...

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Historic Prague synagogue sees first Yom Kippur service since the Holocaust

Until recently home to a Jewish Museum exhibit, 17th-century Klausen hosted a local progressive congregation whose regular space couldn’t fit the...

14.10.2024 60

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Awaiting response to missile attack, Tehran debates next phase in Israel stand-off

Experts say Khamenei remains keen to avoid all-out war but nevertheless wishes to show the Islamic Republic can still stand up to its enemies

14.10.2024 40

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‘White Bird’ stars Helen Mirren as Holocaust survivor who guides wayward grandson

Author of children’s book that movie is based on says it is important that non-Jews help carry on lessons of Holocaust; film debuted this month...

14.10.2024 40

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German town’s memorial stones for Nazi victims stolen on Oct. 7 anniversary

Officials in Zeits react with horror to dislodging of 10 ‘Stolpersteine,’ with mayor denouncing it as ‘an attack on our democracy’

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Real-life rabbi coached the ‘overtly Jewish’ scenes on Netflix’s ‘Nobody Wants This’

Series about interfaith relationships is based on filmmaker’s own conversion to Judaism before marrying her Jewish husband. She enlisted her rabbi...

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The overlooked artist who escaped the Nazis and made the 1st UK memorial to their victims

A new display at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library follows the upheaval that plagued the life of little-known sculptor Fred Kormis, who focused on...

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Belgian author sued for writing he wants to stab every Jew he meets

Herman Brusselmans writes he is filled with rage every time he sees a Jew on the street due to war in Gaza; author and magazine defend article as...

09.08.2024 50

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Amateur detectives invited to join search for lost Jewish library looted by Nazis

Researchers from the Leo Baeck Institute seek to virtually reunite 60,000 texts from the modern liberal Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin,...

06.07.2024 40

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French conservative leader embraces far-right party founded by Nazi apologist

Les Republicains lawmakers furious as leader Eric Ciotti breaks longtime boycott of Le Pen’s faction after snap elections called amid...

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Thought to be destroyed by Nazis, books of the Lublin Yeshiva Library are turning up

Though story has it that the texts were burned in 1939, this is uncorroborated. Local Piotr Nazaruk has located and digitized 850 of them – the...

06.05.2024 90

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‘Kill Jews’ cocktail rocks Spanish town’s Holy Week: ‘An expression, it’s not racist’

In centuries-old tradition, revelers seeking limonadas say they are going out to ‘kill Jews’ in Castilian Holy Week capital, epicenter of...

30.03.2024 60

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Italy’s University of Turin to exit Israel research pact amid Gaza protests

School’s academic senate votes to ban participation in initiative, while rejecting calls for a broader cessation of ties with Israeli universities

22.03.2024 40

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Why French journalist Ruth Elkrief ‘came out’ as Jewish after October 7

The veteran newswoman landed in the middle of France’s debate on antisemitism and Islamophobia – and thanks to fallout from her comments,...

08.03.2024 40

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Spain, Ireland ask EU to probe if Israel violating human rights in Gaza

Request to European Commission cites accord linking human rights obligations to trade ties, obliquely raising prospect of economic sanctions for first...

15.02.2024 30

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A Polish ‘countess’ saved thousands from the Nazis. No one knew she was a Jew

Nearly lost to history, the incredible story of mathematician Janina Spinner Mehlberg is retold in ‘The Counterfeit Countess’ by...

15.02.2024 40

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Could social media have stopped the Holocaust? Scholars doubt Elon Musk’s theory

Visiting the Auschwitz death camp, the billionaire said the genocide could have been mitigated if only his platform X had been around 80 years ago....

26.01.2024 30

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In shift, Latvia and Lithuania to pay Holocaust survivors, heirs for stolen property

Countries open up limited time slots to apply for restitution, after decades of Soviet rule prevented compensation for Nazi massacres

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Dutch mayor refuses to be photographed with Israeli ambassador at Hanukkah event

The town of Enschede’s Roelof Bleker conditions attendance at local Hanukkah celebration on avoiding Modi Ephraim, citing the desire to avoid...

14.12.2023 10

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Far-right Dutch election victor Geert Wilders elicits sympathy and fear in Jewish voters

A last-minute surge that even surprised the populist head of the Party for Freedom reflects the rapidly changing landscape following the Oct. 7 Hamas...

10.12.2023 40

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