BERLIN (JTA) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel was honored by the World Jewish Congress for her role in fighting anti-Semitism.
The annual Theodor Herzl Prize recognizes individuals who …
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TOBY AXELROD
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10/31/19
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In late August and early September, Betsalel Laurent Elouna, founder and leader of Beith Bnei Yeshouroun synagogue in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, visited Providence, staying for a week at the home of Rabbi Wayne and Anne Franklin.
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SHAI AFSAI
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10/2/19
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JTA – The Israel-based humanitarian group IsraAID, B’nai B’rith International and Chabad are among those pitching in to help the Bahamas in the wake of Hurricane Dorian’s …
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9/19/19
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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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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 – 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) — The Israel-based humanitarian group IsraAID, B’nai B’rith International and Chabad are among those pitching in to help the Bahamas in the wake of Hurricane Dorian’s …
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Marcy Oster
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9/4/19
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TEL AVIV — Shlomit Norman was only 42 when doctors diagnosed her with multiple myeloma — a bone marrow cancer with no known cure that rarely strikes people under the age of 65.
At the time, …
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Larry Luxner
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8/26/19
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BUENOS AIRES (JTA) – Argentina will host the 15th Pan American Maccabi games in its capital city Buenos Aires.
Every four years, the Maccabi World Union organizes the Pan …
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JTA STAFF
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7/5/19
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Israel’s next spacecraft will shoot higher than the moon
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Marcy Oster
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6/26/19
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