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Shira Li Bartov

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80 years after Auschwitz was liberated, kosher food returns to its town of Oswiecim

Auschwitz Jewish Center, housed in last remaining synagogue near site of Nazi death camp, will have kosher food available for visitors, starting...

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Shira Li Bartov

New HBO Max series ‘Reformed’ depicts French woman rabbi inspired by Delphine Horvilleur

New HBO Max series ‘Reformed’ depicts French woman rabbi inspired by Delphine Horvilleur

Inspired by the memoir of one of France’s few female Jewish clergy, the show portrays the internal and external challenges of a religious, political...

08.04.2025 30

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Shira Li Bartov

Jesse Eisenberg receives Polish citizenship after film wins Oscar

At NY ceremony, actor, screenwriter and director tells Polish president it’s the ‘honor of a lifetime’; movie ‘A Real Pain’ tells story of 2...

08.03.2025 40

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Archaeology students excavating a Warsaw Jewish cemetery are uncovering a forgotten world

200,000 Jews are interred at the Okopowa Street burial ground, but decades of neglect and the Nazi destruction of archives left many unable to access...

01.03.2025 20

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On anniversary of Russia-Ukraine war, isolated Ukrainian Jews translate their prayers

Many in the Jewish community seek translations of sacred texts as a way of fighting for their national and religious identity. A new children’s...

28.02.2025 30

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Louisville Orchestra remembers concertmaster with opera he learned in Theresienstadt

After escaping a death march from Auschwitz, Paul Kling moved to Kentucky and became the orchestra’s first chair. A Saturday performance of...

25.01.2025 30

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No need for Belgium’s railway to pay for sending Jews to death camps, panel finds

Government commission concludes Belgian National Railway Company should apologize for WWII transports; Holocaust restitution group pans outcome

23.01.2025 30

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Shira Li Bartov

Estonian government rebukes university for cutting ties with Israeli institution

JTA — An Estonian university has cut ties with an Israeli university, setting off a chain of rebukes from the government, and pressure from its...

20.12.2024 8

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Shira Li Bartov

Award-winning French film about Jewish radical shrouded in mystery makes US debut

‘The Goldman Case’ tells the story of Pierre Goldman, who was convicted of murdering two pharmacists in a robbery before a retrial cleared him of...

04.12.2024 7

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Shira Li Bartov

Poland’s Jewish museum marks its first decade, made tumultuous by politics

In the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, locals get a lesson in the 1,000-year history of Polish Jews, who numbered 3 million before the Holocaust...

07.11.2024 7

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Shira Li Bartov

Historic Prague synagogue sees first Yom Kippur service since the Holocaust

Until recently home to a Jewish Museum exhibit, 17th-century Klausen hosted a local progressive congregation whose regular space couldn’t fit the...

14.10.2024 20

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Shira Li Bartov

Awaiting response to missile attack, Tehran debates next phase in Israel stand-off

Experts say Khamenei remains keen to avoid all-out war but nevertheless wishes to show the Islamic Republic can still stand up to its enemies

14.10.2024 4

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‘White Bird’ stars Helen Mirren as Holocaust survivor who guides wayward grandson

Author of children’s book that movie is based on says it is important that non-Jews help carry on lessons of Holocaust; film debuted this month...

14.10.2024 5

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German town’s memorial stones for Nazi victims stolen on Oct. 7 anniversary

Officials in Zeits react with horror to dislodging of 10 ‘Stolpersteine,’ with mayor denouncing it as ‘an attack on our democracy’

10.10.2024 20

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Shira Li Bartov

Real-life rabbi coached the ‘overtly Jewish’ scenes on Netflix’s ‘Nobody Wants This’

Series about interfaith relationships is based on filmmaker’s own conversion to Judaism before marrying her Jewish husband. She enlisted her rabbi...

30.09.2024 10

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Shira Li Bartov

The overlooked artist who escaped the Nazis and made the 1st UK memorial to their victims

A new display at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library follows the upheaval that plagued the life of little-known sculptor Fred Kormis, who focused on...

11.09.2024 10

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Shira Li Bartov

Belgian author sued for writing he wants to stab every Jew he meets

Herman Brusselmans writes he is filled with rage every time he sees a Jew on the street due to war in Gaza; author and magazine defend article as...

09.08.2024 10

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Shira Li Bartov