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Italian cyclist Gino Bartali recognized as righteous gentile

New York (JTA) –Yad Vashem posthumously recognized the Italian cycling champion Gino Bartali as Righteous Among the Nations. The Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem released a statement saying that during the German occupation of Italy beginning … more

10/25/13

Anatoly Altman, Soviet Jew who tried to hijack plane, dies

JTA – Anatoly Altman, a Ukrainian Jew who tried to hijack a plane to escape the former Soviet Union, has died. Born in what today is Ukraine, Altman was a member of “Operation … more

12/6/18

Dreaming of unity, through the lens of Israeli paratroopers

Religious Zionism and the kibbutz movement, Israeli author and think-tanker Yossi Klein Halevi recently told me, are “the two messianic streams within Zionism that wanted more than just a safe refuge for the Jewish people.” In his estimation, … more

Michael M. Rosen | 10/25/13

American-Israeli behind JCC bomb threats sentenced to prison

JTA – A 20-year-old American-Israeli man convicted of making hundreds of bomb threats to Jewish community centers and Jewish schools in the United States and five other countries, as well … more

12/6/18

Anti-Semitic incidents in Czech Republic rose sharply in 2014

PRAGUE (JTA) – The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the Czech Republic rose by more than 200 percent last year, according to an annual report on anti-Semitism. Prague’s Jewish community released the report May 4. In 2014, 46 such … more

5/7/15

Jewish justice joining Argentina’s Supreme Court in landmark appointment

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 … more

6/24/16

The Jewish Council of Amsterdam, a body set up by the Nazis to have Jews oversee preparations for the extermination of their own minority throughout the Netherlands during World War II.

In Amsterdam, the personal card of every Holocaust victim returns to Jewish hands

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Sonja Levy was a positive person who made an excellent first impression and whose important position exempted her from deportation, according to the personal card that the … more

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ | 1/26/21

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef dies at 93

TEL AVIV (JTA) – Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Israeli sage who founded the Sephardic Orthodox Shas political party and exercised major influence on Jewish law, died Oct. 7. Ovadia Yosef was born Abdullah Yosef in Baghdad, Iraq, on Sept. 23, … more

Ben Sales | 10/25/13

Historic synagogue in Tunisia heavily damaged

(JTA) – A historic but defunct synagogue in Tunisia was reduced to rubble on Tuesday amid mass rioting after an explosion in Gaza that Hamas blamed on Israel. Hundreds of people were … more

Andrew Lapin | 10/19/23

IFCJ, JDC to distribute $52M in aid to Jews in former Soviet Union

JTA – The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has pledged $52 million to provide food and medicine to elderly Jews living in the former Soviet Union through the American Jewish … more

9/29/16