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Courtesy: Office of the President.
April 23, 2023, 7:46 pm
President launches ‘Jewish Davos’ to bridge wide gaps between Israel, Diaspora
"The gaps between us are growing wider. On some of the most essential questions, we are unable to agree. But, more concerning, often, we are unable even to discuss," Herzog said.
By Jotam Confino in Israel
Nevatim conference
February 17, 2022, 11:57 am
Young urge action on anti-Jewish hate at Berlin conference
Delegates from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Serbia attended presentations, workshops and panel discussions on the rise of racial hatred and the challenges to Jewish life today.
Central Izmir Synagogues
February 17, 2022, 11:54 am
Izmir synagogues to reopen as museums
From June, visitors to the old bazaar of Kemeralti can get a taste of life as it was when this buzzing area on Turkey’s Aegean coast was home to 30,000 Jews
Michael Winograd, a popular Klezmer composer and clarinetist, recently poked fun at Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene's viral "Gazpacho Police" comment by turning it into the title of a klezmer song. (Screenshot)
February 15, 2022, 2:30 pm
‘Gazpacho Police’ is now an original klezmer song
Brooklyn-based clarinetist and composer Michael Winograd made tune joining the chorus of jokes, memes, snarky tweets aimed at Republican senator Marjorie Taylor Greene
By JTA
Jared Armstrong, center, appealed the Israeli Interior Ministry's denial of his application for Israeli citizenship but his appeal was denied Wednesday. (Courtesy Armstrong)
February 15, 2022, 11:48 am
Basketball player who converted with ‘Biden’s rabbi’ is denied Israeli citizenship
Jared Armstrong studied for months with American Conservative rabbi Michael Beals, known for his links to the US President
By JTA
Plant Selfie (Credit: Aviv Labs)
February 14, 2022, 4:58 pm
Hummus in space! Israeli team to plant chickpeas 300 miles above Earth
Two dozen seeds and a special greenhouse will be flown to the International Space Station to offer astronauts a fresh source of protein
By Stephen Oryszczuk
Shoah memorial by Danube 
February 4, 2022, 12:32 pm
Hungarian Jewish leaders pay tribute to liberation of ghetto
“Remembrance is a part of our shared future,” said András Heisler, president of the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities.
A visitor at the new Holocaust museum in Oporto
February 4, 2022, 12:31 pm
Oporto Holocaust museum building new ‘antisemitism room’
The museum aims to show Jewish life before the Holocaust, as well as Nazism in Europe, the ghettoes and Jewish refugees, plus the camps, death marches and liberation.
The site of a suspected medieval synagogue in Spain : Fachada Hospital de la Misericordia
February 4, 2022, 12:27 pm
Spanish synagogue archaeological search continues
The search is focused on a 14th century building in the small city of Utrera in Seville, in the south-west of the country, but clues as to its past are proving hard  to come by.
In question: Camille Pissarro’s painting
February 4, 2022, 12:26 pm
Restitution battle for £22m Pissarro painting
US Supreme Court will decide on the fate of an 1897 painting which was taken by the Nazis from its former Jewish owner in 1939
By Jewish News Reporter
January 21, 2022, 5:18 pm
Airline fined over kosher food
Judge José Marcos Marrone said the airline had “failed to provide the services” it had promised, causing the plaintiffs “emotional suffering”
Expulsion of Jews in 1497 painting by Alfredo Roque Gameiro
January 21, 2022, 5:15 pm
Jews’ descendants pile into Iberia
Almost 250,000 have applied, with Spanish authorities granting one in four applications, while Portuguese officials rubber-stamped two in three.
UK developers are using tools to geolocate graves and build Jewish memory maps in eastern Europe using local research. Pictured: Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery
January 21, 2022, 5:15 pm
Young and old in cemetery clean-up
The Coalition said volunteers stepped up “for the sake of building a broader awareness of the multicultural history of Poland”.
Yad Vashem's Hall of Names
January 21, 2022, 5:15 pm
Yad Vashem genealogy partnership
Agreement between two of the most prestigious Holocaust memorial institutions in the world will mean Yad Vashem making its records available to the wider public
Limmud FSU participants
January 10, 2022, 2:12 pm
Limmud FSU Israel event ‘builds robust dialogue’
Three-day get-together at Kibbutz Shefayim welcomed 700 participants and volunteers for a programme of more than 130 sessions for adults, plus others for children.
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