( JTA ) — Regulars at the synagogue in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine call its main hallway “the traffic jam.”
The term, often uttered with an eye roll, refers to the bottleneck …
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Cnaan Liphshiz
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5/13/20
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Among the 11 Poles recognized at the 2019 “Preserving Memory” awards ceremony for their role in protecting their country’s Jewish heritage were three men from Chelm: Zbigniew S. …
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SHAI AFSAI and ARIELA ALUSH
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5/3/20
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(JTA) – The Jewish Chronicle of London, the world’s longest-running Jewish publication, has been saved from liquidation and transferred to new owners.A consortium from the Jewish …
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CNAAN LIPHSHIZ
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4/30/20
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(JTA) — An online Holocaust remembrance event coordinated by Israel’s embassy in Berlin was hacked with vulgar anti-Semitic images and messages.Monday evening’s memorial event, a …
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Toby Axelrod
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4/22/20
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(JTA) – Two weeks ago, the owners of the United Kingdom’s top two Jewish newspapers described their plans to dissolve the publications as a sad, inescapable consequence of the coronavirus …
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Cnaan Liphshiz
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4/22/20
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – The coronavirus couldn’t dim the annual torch-lighting ceremony in Israel for Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah.
In a …
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MARCY OSTER
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4/20/20
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(JTA) – Anti-Semitic hate speech has risen dramatically since the start of the coronavirus crisis and must be rejected, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on freedom of religion or …
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MARCY OSTER
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4/20/20
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(JTA) — The United Kingdom last had a Jewish prime minister in 1880, the final year of Benjamin Disraeli‘s service.Now, with the coronavirus sending Boris Johnson to the hospital, the …
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Cnaan Liphshiz
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4/7/20
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(JTA) — Even before the arrival of the coronavirus upended Passover plans across the world, the Wood River Jewish Community’s Seder was going to be different this year. For the first …
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Penny Schwartz
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4/7/20
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(JTA) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called on the Orthodox Jewish community to refrain from holding large religious gatherings, saying on Tuesday that the New York Police Department will …
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Marcy Oster
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4/7/20
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