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Yaakov Schwartz

Yaakov Schwartz

The Times of Israel

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‘Wonder Rabbi’ pilgrimage brings feuds, fraud and huge potential for Hungary’s Jews

BODROGKERESZTUR, Hungary — Nestled in the rolling hills of Hungary’s Tokaj wine region, the tiny village of Bodrogkeresztur was whipped into a...

07.05.2023 90

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These 6 survivors are lighting memorial torches at Yad Vashem’s Yom HaShoah ceremony

Eighty years after a few hundred sparsely armed Jews fended off thousands of Nazi troops for over a month during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,...

17.04.2023 40

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Tradition meets technology with UK app for halachic questions

When Rabbi Gershon Lopian, one of London’s foremost authorities on Jewish law, retired from his longstanding position leading the Yeshurun...

06.03.2023 20

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A Holocaust survivor fought antisemitism on TikTok and now he’s a social media star

PRAGUE — At nearly 88, Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev has gone head to head with Joe Rogan, befriended a former neo-Nazi, appeared on television...

03.03.2023 200

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Charles Silverstein, who helped delist homosexuality as mental illness, dies at 87

Dr. Charles Silverstein, who helped to get homosexuality declassified as a mental illness in the United States, died January 30 at the age of 87 in...

07.02.2023 20

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Ancestry.com donates 2,500 DNA kits to help Holocaust survivors find relatives

The world’s largest for-profit genealogy company, Ancestry, has donated 2,500 DNA kits to a newly launched program that helps those whose lives have...

31.01.2023 9

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At concentration camp once used for Nazi propaganda, European Jews fight ‘fake news’

TEREZIN, Czech Republic — Half a mile from the center of the former Theresienstadt ghetto and concentration camp, over 100 European diplomats,...

27.01.2023 30

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Directing a virtual JCC, one woman is making Jewish Prague the envy of its neighbors

PRAGUE — In the spring of 2020, Pavlina Sulcova had scarcely settled into her new job as director of a fledgling JCC in Prague when the coronavirus...

21.01.2023 20

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Deli tycoon Sy Ginsberg talks nosh-talgia and dishes on the future of deli in the US

DETROIT — As a teenager in 1960, Sy Ginsberg grabbed a broom and took a part-time job at Lou’s Deli in downtown Detroit. Even by then, the eatery...

03.12.2022 50

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