(JTA) – Nearly seven months after they were denied boarding in Frankfurt, a group of more than 100 Hasidic Lufthansa passengers are getting paid for their troubles.
The airline is paying …
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12/2/22
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(JTA) – A BBC article about an attack on a bus full of Jewish students celebrating Hanukkah last year contained “significant editorial failings,” according to a …
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GABE FRIEDMAN
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12/2/22
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(JTA) – As rap star Kanye West continually refuses to back down from his antisemitic rants, some of the many institutions he has ties with have begun to jump ship. The fashion tastemakers Balenciaga and Vogue have announced they will no longer be working with him. Hollywood talent giant CAA has dropped him, and a planned documentary about him has been scrapped.
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ANDREW LAPIN
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10/25/22
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(JTA) – Pope Francis has ordered 170 volumes of Jewish requests for help from the Catholic Church during World War II to be published online, two years after making their …
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ANDREW LAPIN
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7/4/22
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(JTA) – Israel announced plans to set up a field hospital in western Ukraine as the Russian war against the country shows no sign of abating.
Israeli leaders on Monday approved NIS 21 …
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Ron Kampeas
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3/16/22
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(JTA) – The world has had a crash course on Volodymyr Zelensky in recent days, as the Ukrainian president has galvanized his country against an unprovoked attack by neighboring Russia.
The …
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PHILISSA CRAMER
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3/6/22
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – As Amnesty International became the third major human rights group to categorize Israel’s treatment of Palestinians as “apartheid,” the U.S. Ambassador to Israel said that the label was “absurd.”
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2/6/22
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(JTA) – It has been 77 years since Nazi collaborators marched György Bánhidi and his family from their spacious home in Budapest into the city’s Jewish ghetto.
But Bánhidi, who is now 84, remembers even the tiniest details from that short trip to a place where he endured months of hunger, and the trauma of watching his mother give up her hope of ever surviving. …
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CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
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1/27/22
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(JTA) – The European Union has published what it called a strategic plan for combating anti-Semitism.
The 26-page document that the European Commission, the executive branch of the European …
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CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
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10/9/21
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BY GABE FRIEDMAN
(JTA) – Last week, Delta Airlines pilot Alexander Kahn flew hundreds of Afghan refugees from Germany to Dulles Airport outside Washington, D.C., as part of a U.S. government …
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9/6/21
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