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Childhood friends torn apart by Holocaust Zoom regularly, 82 years later
“This has been a great gift,” declared Ana María Wahrenberg of rediscovering her school friend from Germany, Betty Grebenschikoff.
Pope pops in on author and Holocaust survivor Edith Bruck
"I came here to thank you for your witness and to pay homage to the people martyred by the insanity of Nazi populism," Pope Francis told Bruck, 89, who writes in Italian about her childhood trauma, which included time in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Purim during COVID: Masks for two different reasons
Jewish communities in the United States are preparing to celebrate the holiday of Purim in a COVID-safe manner.
Madrid investigates anti-Semitic crimes at far-right rally
Inquiry comes after several organizers give speeches criticizing Jews and supporting Nazi ideology, with one of them proclaiming that "fascism is joy,
Chabad rabbi calls to bar unvaccinated worshippers from synagogues
"Those who urge others not be vaccinated will answer for it on Judgment Day," writes Rabbi Yitzhak Yehuda Yaroslavsky.
'The pursuit of SS perpetrators must not end'
Vice-president of the International Auschwitz Committee lashes out at German justice system for its belated effort to prosecute Nazi criminals.
Gulf Jewish communities establish first regional organization
Association of Gulf Jewish Communities will work to bolster Jewish life and include representatives from the United Arab Emirates, as well as much smaller communities in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and Kuwait.
Ultra-Orthodox Londoners roll up sleeves to fight COVID
In hopes of breaking down barriers that sometimes isolate ultra-Orthodox from wider society, community leaders organize pop-up vaccination event to coincide with the end of Shabbat.
Dozens of medieval Jewish headstones discovered inside wall in Germany
A spokesman for the German Culture Ministry says the tombstones “are centuries-old evidence of Jewish roots and tradition in Mainz.”