RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) – A 57-year-old woman dubbed “the wandering Israeli” by Peruvian media left Lima’s international airport after living in the arrivals area for 19 days and …
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6/24/16
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RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) – Mazel tov! That’s perhaps how the big shots in charge of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the first to take place in South America, will toast victories when the …
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Marcus Moraes
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6/24/16
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) – Carlos Rosenkrantz, a Buenos Aires attorney, law professor, and a former presidential adviser, will be the first Jewish justice on the Supreme Court of …
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6/24/16
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JTA – Russian-Israeli actress Ania Bukstein recently joined the cast of the hit HBO series “Game of Thrones.”
Bukstein, a Moscow native who immigrated to Israel at 8, plays Red …
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5/27/16
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JTA – Citing anti-discrimination laws, a Spanish constitutional tribunal recommended scrapping a municipality’s motion calling for a boycott of Israel.
The Ministerio Fiscal, an …
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5/27/16
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JTA – The city of Amsterdam will give its Jewish community $11 million as compensation for taxes imposed on Holocaust survivors who returned home to the Dutch capital following World War II.
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5/27/16
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JTA — Legislation that will make it easier for Holocaust survivors to press restitution claims is expected to pass in Romania’s parliament next week.
Lawmakers said on April 26 that …
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4/28/16
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JTA – A Nazi-looted painting by the Jewish artist Amedeo Modigliani is being sequestered in Geneva after its ownership was revealed in the Panama Papers.
The ownership of the 1918 painting …
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4/15/16
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SAINT-DENIS, France (JTA) – After three firebombs hit the synagogue in this poor and heavily Muslim suburb of Paris, municipal authorities advised the local Jewish community to lower its …
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CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
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4/15/16
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RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) – Three Israeli companies won an international competition to build a pilot smart city in Brazil to house 20,000 residents of low socioeconomic status.
The startups …
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4/13/16
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