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JTA – Chabad has opened its first center in Rwanda, which becomes the African nation’s first synagogue served by a permanent rabbi.
Rabbi Chaim and Dina Bar Sella, and their …
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9/19/19
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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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Prior to World War II, about one-tenth of Poland’s population was Jewish, and Jews made up almost a quarter of Krakow, Poland’s residents. By the end of the war, 90% of Poland’s Jews had been killed by the Nazis and their accomplices. Many of the Jewish structures in Kazimierz, an area that the Polish King Casimir the Great invited Jews to settle in during the 14th century, still stand in Krakow, though they remain largely emptied of Jewish occupants.
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SHAI AFSAI
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9/19/19
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(JTA) — A number of European countries — in addition to the European Union’s governing body — are considering suspending their financial assistance to the Palestinians in the …
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Toby Axelrod
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10/12/23
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(JTA) — Israel held a national election seven weeks ago. It might hold another one in September.
If that sounds weird to you, you’re right: Israel has a famously raucous political system, …
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Ben Sales
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5/29/19
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Among the memorabilia sold in Kazimierz’s Plac Nowy, or New Square – as well as in other parts of Krakow and throughout Poland – are pictures and figurines of the “Lucky …
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SHAI AFSAI
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9/19/19
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BERLIN (JTA) – The number of politically motivated crimes rose to record levels in Germany last year and include a 15% rise in anti-Semitic offenses.
The annual report by the Federal …
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5/9/21
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JTA – Pope Francis has organized an exhibition soccer match with all-star players to promote peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
The “match for the peace” will take place Sept. 1 at the Olympic Stadium in Rome.
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8/19/14
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TEL AVIV (JTA) – South Korea is interested in buying Iron Dome missile defense batteries from the Israeli weapons manufacturer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.
South Korea expressed interest, according to Reuters, after Iron Dome achieved a 90 …
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8/19/14
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JTA – Amal Alamuddin, the British attorney engaged to actor George Clooney, declined her nomination to serve on a U.N. panel investigating Israel for possible war crimes in Gaza.
Alamuddin attributed her decision to “prior professional …
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8/19/14
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