JTA – Next week’s summit meeting between President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Finland recasts the Scandinavian nation in a role it had not occupied in …
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CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
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7/13/18
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JTA – The home of a Jewish professor at Oberlin College was vandalized and a note reading “Gas Jew Die” was left at his front door.
The professor has been identified by police …
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11/25/16
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(JTA) – Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit the New York region in March, the Orthodox community was on edge.
A surge in anti-Semitic incidents targeting visibly Orthodox Jews climaxed …
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Shira Hanau
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6/26/20
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JTA – Poland’s government pledged $28 million to restore the Warsaw Jewish cemetery, making the preservation project one of the largest of its kind in European history.
Deputy Prime …
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12/21/17
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JTA – Whether you love them or hate them – or your feelings are purely pareve — these 13 Jews repeatedly made the news in 5775.
David Blatt
American-Israeli coach David Blatt, in his first season as the Cleveland …
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Julie Wiener
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9/17/15
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In addition to his lasting contributions to science and government, Benjamin Franklin succeeded in influencing Jewish thought and practice, a feat he accomplished posthumously, through his famous “Autobiography,” which found its way into Eastern …
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SHAI AFSAI
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1/16/15
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JNS.org – Pope Francis met with a delegation of leading European rabbis at the Vatican April 20 to discuss Jewish-Christian relations and the ongoing surge of European anti-Semitism.
The delegation was from the Conference of European Rabbis, …
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4/23/15
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PARIS (JTA) — Standing for hours behind that yellow police line Friday, many of us could feel our patience running out as we waited idly near the Porte de Vincennes metro station for news from the hostage situation that was going on just 100 yards …
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Cnaan Liphshiz
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1/16/15
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JTA – A documentary about the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor won an Oscar one week after she died.
Alice Herz-Sommer, who died in London on Feb. 23 at the age of 110, was the subject of “The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life,” …
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3/13/14
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(JTA) — In a powerful joint statement, the leaders of six major American Orthodox Jewish organizations called on their members to follow social distancing rules, including limits on daily group …
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Marcy Oster
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3/23/20
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