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To fight radical Islam, France is limiting religious freedoms — with the blessing of its Jewish minority

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Published October 27, 2020

Reform Jews satisfied with compromise on World Zionist Organization

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Published October 23, 2020

Europe’s Jewish population is as low as it was 1,000 years ago. And the future doesn’t look bright.

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Published October 21, 2020

Armenian leader accuses Israel of aiding ‘genocide’ against his people

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Published October 19, 2020

Following French teacher’s beheading, Jewish groups urge members to rally against Islamic terrorists

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Published October 18, 2020

Holocaust survivor’s daughter wants her late mother’s interview out of ‘Borat’ sequel

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Published October 16, 2020

In Hungary, the left and the far right have united to defeat Viktor Orban. He says Jewish groups are giving them a pass on anti-Semitism.

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Published October 16, 2020

Nationalist marchers in Kyiv protest occupation of Ukraine by ‘Jewish clan’

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Published October 14, 2020

Far-right politician Marine Le Pen would beat Emmanuel Macron in first round of French elections, new poll suggests

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Published October 8, 2020

Israel and UAE foreign ministers tour Berlin Holocaust monument in historic first meeting

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Published October 7, 2020

Obninsk, Russia, home of the world’s first nuclear power plant, gets its first synagogue

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Published October 7, 2020

Outside of Israel, tiny Monaco has the highest ratio of Jews in the world. Here’s why the community is growing.

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Published October 1, 2020

Mike Pompeo’s Yom Kippur visit to Thessaloniki posed ‘dilemma’ for Greek Jews

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Published September 29, 2020

Far-right activists stage anti-Semitic hate speech incidents in Scandinavia on Yom Kippur

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Published September 29, 2020

Nearly 80 years after the Babyn Yar massacre, Ukrainian researchers lift victims out of anonymity

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Published September 25, 2020

150-year-old time capsule found in a wall of oldest synagogue in British city

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Published September 25, 2020

Auschwitz museum director asks to trade his freedom for Nigerian boy jailed for blasphemy

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Published September 25, 2020

Multiple pedestrians injured in stabbings outside former Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine

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Published September 25, 2020

Dutch city names as its resident poet a rapper who called the Holocaust a ‘cover-up for dumb sheep’

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Published September 24, 2020

Palestinian refugee receives Spanish citizenship after discovering Jewish Sephardic roots

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Published September 24, 2020

Coronavirus crisis is testing the resilience of Europe’s small Jewish communities

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Published September 21, 2020

Hungarian Jews to celebrate Rosh Hashanah on a boat on the Danube amid rising COVID infections

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Published September 17, 2020

The Red Cross is aiding hundreds of Jewish pilgrims who have amassed at Ukraine’s closed borders

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Published September 16, 2020

Kosovo’s Jews cheer their Muslim-majority state’s new deal with Israel

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Published September 14, 2020

How an annual religious pilgrimage created a year-round Jewish community in Uman, Ukraine

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Published September 4, 2020

Netanyahu denies he agreed to sale of warplanes to UAE

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Published September 4, 2020

It ‘shows a great resilience’: Despite COVID-19, synagogues across Europe will still open for non-Jews for Days of Jewish Culture series

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Published September 1, 2020

Dutch man who blamed hackers for anti-Semitic death threats against his neighbors is acquitted

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Published September 1, 2020

Ukraine’s Jewish president thinks Jews especially should invest in his country

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Published August 27, 2020

Frankfurt’s new $58 million Jewish museum reclaims Anne Frank’s forgotten roots in the city

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Published August 25, 2020

12 rockets launched at Israel from Gaza amid talk of large-scale operation

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Published August 21, 2020

In the Netherlands, judges can fine and lock up Jewish men who refuse to give their wives a religious divorce

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Published August 19, 2020

Netanyahu says West Bank annexation ‘remains on the table’ following Israel-UAE agreement

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Published August 14, 2020

In Belarus, young Jews among those picked off street and jailed amid police crackdown on protesters

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Published August 13, 2020

Israel’s Hadassah hospital ‘a partner’ in development of Russian coronavirus vaccine, director says

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Published August 12, 2020

French police arrest hostage-taker who made demands from Israel

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Published August 7, 2020

Beirut synagogue appears to suffer only minor damage from bombing

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Published August 7, 2020

Russia has a full-time surgeon whose only job is circumcising Jewish men

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Published August 6, 2020

Dozens of headstones smashed at Jewish cemetery in Russia

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Published July 30, 2020

In Western Europe, a Jewish ‘Community’ is an organization. They operate like expensive members-only clubs.

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Published July 28, 2020

Dutch airline KLM discriminated when it asked woman to move for Orthodox man, watchdog finds

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Published July 24, 2020

Grandson of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Hoess, who criticized his family history, is a criminal, report claims

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Published July 24, 2020

Holocaust survivor, 90, stabbed to death in her Moscow apartment

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Published July 24, 2020

Orthodox man assaulted in Brooklyn

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Published July 24, 2020

Ukraine’s President Zelensky helps free hostages by plugging Joaquin Phoenix film on Facebook

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Published July 22, 2020

For anti-Semites in France, police are seen as ‘dirty Jews’

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Published July 22, 2020

British Labour Party apologizes for defaming ex-staffers who spoke out on anti-Semitism

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Published July 22, 2020

Netherlands suspends aid to group that employed alleged Palestinian terrorists

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Published July 21, 2020

Dutch government threatens to fine store selling wine from Hebron labeled as made in Israel

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Published July 15, 2020

This French town is known for saving Jews during WWII. It just elected a far-right mayor who has been accused of anti-Semitism.

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Published July 13, 2020

Now on DeSean Jackson’s post-pandemic schedule: Visiting Auschwitz with a Holocaust survivor

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Published July 12, 2020

With no tourists in Amsterdam, locals are discovering the Anne Frank House

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Published June 30, 2020

Dutch national rail company offers $5.6 million for Holocaust-era transport of Jewish victims

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Published June 26, 2020

Belgian parliament calls on EU to prepare list of ‘countermeasures’ against Israeli annexation

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Published June 25, 2020

For elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union, COVID-19 lockdown loneliness is debilitating

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Published June 25, 2020

Facebook prank tricks thousands into thinking ‘Back to the Future’ actors are Israeli couple from the 1950s

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Published June 25, 2020

In first, Spanish state calls attempts to boycott Israel a form of anti-Semitism

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Published June 22, 2020

Jewish men in UK are twice as likely to die from coronavirus than overall population, study shows

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Published June 19, 2020

Leading presidential hopeful would ‘satisfy Jewish claims’ for Holocaust restitution, Polish state TV warns

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Published June 16, 2020

Dutch-Jewish WWII hero Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk, who saved hundreds of children, dies at 96

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Published June 16, 2020

Belgian Holocaust series says Jews ‘massacred’ and ‘systematically’ displaced Palestinians

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Published June 12, 2020

Defying their own dire projection, the Orthodox Jewish community of Antwerp has weathered the coronavirus surprisingly well

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Published June 11, 2020

World Council of Churches wants EU sanctions on Israel if it annexes West Bank lands

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Published June 11, 2020

Nearly half the Jewish sites in Syria have been ruined. The fate of most Iraqi sites is unknown.

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Published June 5, 2020

As COVID-19 puts Brazil’s poverty issues into sharp focus, Brazilian Jews rush to help favelas

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Published June 5, 2020

Dozens of rabbis in Israel call for day of mourning over killings of George Floyd and autistic Palestinian man

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Published June 5, 2020

Jewish schools have reopened in the Netherlands, but some worry that their security is compromised

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Published May 28, 2020

In Europe, budding Jewish tourism businesses are teetering on the brink of closure because of COVID-19

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Published May 22, 2020

Joy, fear and sorrow mix for Italian Jews returning to synagogue

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Published May 21, 2020

Amsterdam’s Jewish quarter is getting ready to reopen, but some wonder if it will ever be the same

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Published May 19, 2020

Portugal’s ruling party wants to limit Jewish law of return policy

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Published May 13, 2020

Moscow’s Jewish museum uploads previously unseen photos of Berlin’s Soviet occupiers

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Published May 12, 2020

Emerging from lockdown, French Jews take stock of community’s ‘enormous losses’

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Published May 12, 2020

London city worker secures Jewish funeral for 95-year-old man who died alone

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Published May 8, 2020

Hans Calmeyer is remembered for saving thousands of Jews. A Holocaust survivor says he sent her to Auschwitz.

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Published May 6, 2020

UK’s new Labour leader is ‘failing’ in vow to crack down on anti-Semitism, British Jewish groups say

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Published May 4, 2020

A ‘Holocaust Disneyland’? Historians say a controversial film director wants to turn a Ukrainian museum into one.

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Published May 3, 2020

A Ukrainian priest who saved Jews during the Holocaust has never been honored by Yad Vashem. New research could change that.

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Published May 1, 2020

Tedje van der Sluis, 93, Auschwitz survivor whose happy marriage was subject of Dutch film

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Published April 28, 2020

Amsterdam’s Jewish nursing home has lost over 20% of its residents to COVID-19. Could it have done more?

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Published April 28, 2020

At this Dutch Jewish nursing home, family visitors can be lifted by cranes to see their loved ones safely

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Published April 24, 2020

Avraham Yeshayahu Heber, 55, helped hundreds of Israelis find kidney donors

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Published April 24, 2020

The UK Labour Party’s new leader Keir Starmer has a tough job: Winning back Jews while working with Corbyn allies

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Published April 22, 2020

Polish leaders block resolution that would have stopped restitution of property lost during the Holocaust

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Published April 15, 2020

Andrea Finzi, 65, loved post-retirement life in Milan

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Published April 14, 2020

Gantz gets 48-hour extension of deadline to form government

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Published April 14, 2020

In some European Jewish communities, getting the coronavirus carries a stigma

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Published April 13, 2020

Dominic Raab, whose father was a Jewish refugee, is Britain’s acting prime minister with Boris Johnson hospitalized

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Published April 7, 2020

Frida Wattenberg, 95, smuggled Jewish orphans out of Nazi-occupied France

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Published April 6, 2020

Keir Starmer, who has vowed to fight anti-Semitism, replaces Jeremy Corbyn as leader of Britain’s Labour Party

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Published April 4, 2020

Immanuel Chanuka, 84, cared for sick Danish Jews

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Published April 3, 2020

An unwanted symptom of the coronavirus crisis in France: Anti-Semitic conspiracy theories

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Published April 2, 2020

Ronald David Bayfield, 95, survived Normandy to die alone in a London hospital

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Published April 2, 2020

Rabbi Neil Kraft, 69, was beloved by Londoners from all walks of life

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Published April 1, 2020

Efry Levy Azizoff, 66, didn’t want to worry his friends as he took ill with coronavirus

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Published April 1, 2020

Jews are vastly overrepresented in coronavirus deaths in the UK. Here are some theories why.

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Published March 31, 2020

2 die of coronavirus in Israel, bringing death toll to 12

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Published March 27, 2020

London rabbi dies of coronavirus and the British prime minister says he’s infected

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Published March 27, 2020

For Italian Jews, the ‘smell of death’ is all around

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Published March 26, 2020

The Netherlands is OK with citizens being exposed to the coronavirus. That’s terrifying to me and nearby Jewish communities.

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Published March 24, 2020

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