It is a story that strikes a chord with anyone familiar with the struggle for civil rights in the American South. Jwnaid Murad, a businessman in Iraqi Kurdistan, has decided that he will no longer …
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By Ben Cohen
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11/14/19
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Stickers shaped like yellow stars that Nazis made Jews wear during the Holocaust were placed on multiple Jewish sites in Denmark and Sweden on the anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom. …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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11/13/19
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The United Kingdom’s major Jewish newspaper, the Jewish Chronicle, published a front-page editorial to non-Jews expressing Jewish concerns about Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn possibly becoming …
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11/13/19
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Eric Lidji remembers people leaving objects in sets of 11. Eleven white feathers, 11 Jewish stars, 11 egg-shaped sculptures. But mostly, he remembers the stones, 2,000 of them spread …
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By Ben Sales, JTA
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10/30/19
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“Jojo Rabbit” sounds like a film that is difficult to pull off amid the state of rising anti-Semitism in 2019.
It’s a comedy set during the Holocaust about a 10-year-old German …
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By Emily Burack, JTA
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10/30/19
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In the aftermath of the shooting outside a synagogue in the German city of Halle, local authorities are rethinking their approach to securing the country’s Jewish communities.
Only the …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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10/24/19
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On the night of June 2, a German politician by the name of Walter Lübcke was found lying dead in the garden of his home in Wolfhagen — a village on the outskirts of the city of Kassel …
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By Ben Cohen
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10/24/19
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More than eight in 10 American Jews say that anti-Semitism has spiked in recent years and even more believe it is a problem in the United States, according to an American Jewish …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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10/24/19
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Here’s the sad paradox of the shooting nearly one year ago at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue: The killing of 11 worshippers. …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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10/10/19
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As visitors to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem wind their way through the main exhibition, they are confronted by a series of unsettling photographs from the first decade of Nazi …
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By Ben Cohen
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10/10/19
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