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Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, and Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar listen to businessman Viktor Vekselberg speak at a ceremony outside the Jewish Museum of Moscow, Russia, June 4, 2019. (Courtesy of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center of Moscow)
March 31, 2022, 6:11 pm
Ukraine invasion puts Chabad of Russia ‘between a rock and a hard place’
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The entrance to the Yeshivat Beth Yossef in Bussières, France. (Google Maps)
February 1, 2022, 6:56 pm
French police arrest 16 teachers at Orthodox school for allegedly abusing students
By Cnaan Liphshiz / JTA
Zebulon Simantov reads a prayer book before celebrating Rosh Hashanah in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 18, 2009. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
August 19, 2021, 3:30 pm
What we know about Zebulon Simantov, Afghanistan’s last Jew
He still won’t leave the country (or divorce his wife)
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A 29-year-old man is taken into custody in the suspected murder of Vladimir Shchukin in Nikolayev, Ukraine, May 25, 2021. (National Police of Ukraine)
May 26, 2021, 4:14 pm
Jewish history and Holocaust studies scholar murdered in Ukraine
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Firefighters attempt to extinguish a fire at a warehouse which was hit during an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 18, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
May 19, 2021, 6:42 pm
Day 10: Israel strikes Hamas tunnels, Gaza rocket fire decreases
By Cnaan Liphshiz / JTA
The Meridian Industrial park, which houses a building co-owned by Elbit Systems, in Leicester, United Kingdom. (Google Maps)
May 19, 2021, 6:38 pm
Pro-Palestinian activists storm British factory co-owned by Israeli firm Elbit
By Cnaan Liphshiz / JTA
Demonstrators against Israel hold signs at a rally in Vienna, Austria, where protesters chanted in Arabic about a massacre of Jews, May 13, 2021. (Courtesy of Austrian Union of Jewish Students)
May 14, 2021, 5:27 pm
Anti-Israel protesters in Vienna chant about a massacre of Jews
By Cnaan Liphshiz / JTA
Beata Szydło, then the prime minister of Poland, speaks to reporters in Warsaw, July 31, 2016. (Kancelaria Premiera)
April 14, 2021, 4:13 pm
Polish Jewish leader quits Auschwitz museum board
Says appointment of former right-wing prime minister politicized the council
By Cnaan Liphshiz / JTA
Betty Grebenschikoff, left, reunites with Ana María Wahrenberg on a Zoom call. Both Holocaust survivors are now 91. (Courtesy of USC Shoah Foundation)
March 10, 2021, 7:34 pm
Florida Holocaust survivor reunited with childhood friend after 80 years
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Holocaust survivor Larisa Rakovskaya in her Odessa apartment, Sept. 14, 2012. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
October 14, 2020, 7:02 pm
Germany allocates $662 million in emergency funding for Holocaust survivors
By Cnaan Liphshiz / JTA
Participants in the Aalst Carnival in Belgium wear costumes combining the clothes of haredi Orthodox Jews with ant parts, Feb. 23, 2020. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
February 25, 2020, 6:21 pm
Belgian parade features costumes of Orthodox Jews with insect bodies
By Cnaan Liphshiz / JTA
February 25, 2020, 5:07 pm
Carnival float in Spain features Nazi uniforms and trains with crematoria
By Cnaan Liphshiz / JTA
Anna Stupnicka-Bando, the 90-year-old president of the Polish Association of the Righteous Among the Nations, gets set to enter one of the taxis for saviors of Jews, in Warsaw, Poland, Jan. 29, 2020. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
February 4, 2020, 6:18 pm
Elderly Poles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust have a free taxi service
By Cnaan Liphshiz / JTA
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis of Lithuania, seen in 2016, heads the committee drafting legislation declaring that neither Lithuania nor its leaders participated in the Holocaust. (Petras Malukas/AFP via Getty Images)
January 14, 2020, 7:00 pm
Following Poland’s lead, Lithuania proposes a controversial Holocaust law
By Cnaan Liphshiz / JTA
The Choral Synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania. (Kontis Šatūnas/Wikimedia Commons)
August 6, 2019, 4:45 pm
The only functioning synagogue in Lithuania’s capital shuts down
By Cnaan Liphshiz / JTA
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