LUGANSK, Ukraine (JTA) – In an unheated synagogue with no running water, a dozen Jews are trying to keep warm as temperatures here veer toward the single digits.
Not moving too much helps keep the warmth under their thick coats, they say, a …
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Cnaan Liphshiz
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12/18/14
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It’s an article that’s more than 10 years old now, but I still maintain that anyone who wants to get an insight into the dynamics of anti-Semitism in France would do well to consult “France’s Scarlet Letter,” published by the journalist …
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Ben Cohen/JNS.org
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12/18/14
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JTA – A Jewish watchdog group in Romania sued a mayor for allegedly inciting hatred by celebrating his Hitler-style hairdo.
The Center for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism, or MCA Romania, filed a criminal complaint last week against …
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12/4/14
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JNS.org – The Ukrainian parliament’s decision to confirm a Jewish MP as speaker last week will not have major impact on the country’s Jewish community because in Ukraine “every person can get any position independent of his …
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12/4/14
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – It’s 3 p.m. on a Thursday, and the Jerusalem light rail is packed with secular and religious, Jew and Arab, as it heads east from the city’s Central Bus Station.
From there it passes some of the city’s most crowded …
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Ben Sales
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12/4/14
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BUDAPEST (JTA) – An anti-corruption whistleblower elected to head the Budapest Jewish community has sparked a crisis among the highest officials of Hungarian Jewry at a time of heightened tensions with the government.
The …
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Cnaan Liphshiz
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12/4/14
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As every American knows, November is a month of thanksgiving. We celebrate, of course, the Thanksgiving holiday itself, but it’s not the only holiday in which we demonstrate gratitude. On Nov. 11, we also give thanks to our nation’s veterans. …
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PETE ZUBOF
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11/7/14
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (JTA) – Jewish protesters demonstrated outside a South African chain store to condemn Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement protests that they say have turned anti-Semitic.
The South African Jewish Board of …
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11/7/14
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (JTA) – Dutch police advised a municipality to forbid the public display of a sukkah out of concerns that it would be a target for vandalism, a Jewish resident said.
Fabrice Schomberg applied last month for a …
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10/15/14
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JNS.ORG – At a time when many archaeological sites and antiquities throughout the Middle East are being looted and destroyed, the City of David Foundation on Sept. 4 hosted its annual conference to enable the general public to experience some of …
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Sean Savage
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9/11/14
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