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Herbert Cukurs in 1937 Image by Wikimedia Commons
April 28, 2025, 10:59 am
Latvia again closes case against ‘Butcher of Riga,’ tied to mass murder of Jews
Some far-right Latvians venerate Herbert Cukurs, whom Mossad agents assassinated in 1965
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
Riga, Latvia (Photo by Darya Tryfanava on Unsplash)
October 19, 2021, 2:09 pm
Latvia grants Holocaust restitution — while insisting it’s not at fault
Parliament will pay £33.4m to the Jewish community for property stolen during the Holocaust
By JTA
Israel Start-Up Nation team (photo Dario Belingheri/BettiniPhoto©2020)
September 7, 2020, 10:01 am
OPINION: How the Start-Up Nation could represent the Tour for years to come
Russell Langer reflects on the rise of the Israel Start-up Nation team in the world's most famous cycling event
By Russell Langer
Egils Levits. (Wikipedia/Flikr/Author: Toms Norde, Valsts kanceleja)
May 30, 2019, 3:51 pm
Son of Jewish engineer elected president of Latvia
Former judge of the European Court of Justice, Egils Levits, 63, became head of state for the Baltic country this week
By JTA
Dominic Raab
December 19, 2018, 11:29 am
The next in a short line of Jewish prime ministers?
Jeremy Havardi reflects on what history may have in store for former Brexit secretary  Dominic Raab
By Jeremy Havardi
An orthodox Jew and a boy pass two police officers in Antwerp, Belgium, 2014. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
December 10, 2018, 12:13 pm
Survey on European antisemitism: 89 percent say hate increased in five years
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights' new poll of more than 16,000 people 'makes for sobering reading' and claims Jew-hatred is 'normalised'
UN General Assembly hall
October 18, 2018, 10:28 am
UN backs Palestine as head of largest bloc of developing countries
United Nations General Assembly votes to allow the observer state to be head of the largest block of emerging countries
By JTA
Remembrance day of the Latvian legionnaires, 2008
March 16, 2018, 1:29 pm
Hundreds march with Nazi SS veterans in Latvia
Police arrest man for displaying poster of soldiers killing Jews at the controversial annual march by members of the former Nazi division
By Cnaan Liphshiz (JTA)
Picture posted by America's representation at the UN, with some of the 64 countries that abstained on the vote condemning Donald Trump's move
January 5, 2018, 12:26 pm
US envoy to UN hosts reception for 64 countries who didn’t back Jerusalem vote
Nikki Haley holds party for states who voted against or abstained on the resolution condemning Donald Trump's Jerusalem move
By JTA
The Jewish cemetery in Pančevo. Picture: courtesy of jewishgen.org
December 24, 2017, 11:24 am
Dozens of headstones detroyed in Serbian Jewish cemetery
Two youths arrested on suspicion of attack, which was carried out in northern city of Pančevo
By JTA
Nikki Haley voting at the United Nations Security Council
December 22, 2017, 2:45 pm
U.S. envoy to UN throws party for states that didn’t support Jerusalem resolution
Nikki Haley invites 35 countries who either opposed or abstained on the motion condemning Donald Trump's move to a celebration
By JTA
Professor Leonid Eidelman (centre)
October 23, 2017, 1:06 pm
Israeli professor elected president of World Medical Association
Head of Israeli Medical Association Leonid Eidelman voted in as head of the nine million-member organisation
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