“The question of sex is a very painful one for us,” 21-year-old Meir Skorczky wrote in June 1945. Two months after being liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp, in Germany, he was now a member of the founding group of “Kibbutz…
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‘If Believers Cannot Do This, Who Can?’: The Rabbi, Pastor and Imam Building a Berlin House of Prayer
Imam Kadir Sanci, left, and Rabbi Andreas Nachama, two of the founders of House of One. Credit: House of One / René Arnold
Construction of the House of One – an ambitious interfaith project in the heart of Berlin – has been painfully slow….
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Shady watchdog launches 'Antisemite of the Year' award, flaring fierce backlash
StopAntisemitism has faced criticism for targeting Muslim figures in its ‘Antisemite of the Year’ campaign, which has always named a person of color. Nick Fuentes, a 27-year-old Neo-Nazi influencer, was nominated in past years but not this year,…
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Novelists in Arab Countries Recall Jews Who Were Once There, and Then Disappeared
Beirut, summer of 1954. The streets were filled with demonstrations against the Baghdad Pact, a military alliance between Great Britain, Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan and Iran to counter Soviet expansion in the Middle East. While security forces mingled…
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Colombia expels members of Lev Tahor, ultra-Orthodox cult dubbed 'Jewish Taliban'
26 people were detained, including five children with Interpol abduction notices. Cult survivors have previously reported kidnapping and forced marriages of minors with adult men. Officials said the sect arrived in Colombia in October, in search…
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Finally, a vivid Philip Roth biography not stung by strife
Steven Zipperstein’s new book, ‘Philip Roth: Stung by Life,’ harmoniously navigates Roth’s complex legacy while raising real questions about the author’s enduring intellectual invincibility
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U.K.’s Starmer Reportedly ‘Very Troubled’ by Intel That Led to Ban on Israeli Maccabi Soccer Fans
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday he is “very concerned” about the apparently inaccurate information received by the West Midlands Police that led to the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending the Europa League match against Aston…
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Reform U.K. leader Nigel Farage dismisses antisemitism claims from ex-classmates after wave of allegations
The far-right politician told the BBC he had never made any offensive comments ‘with intent,’ after a former classmate alleged he threatened to ‘gas them.’ Prime Minister Starmer called Farage ‘spineless’ and urged him to apologize
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'A love letter to my Jewishness' | This author had to know why Sid Caesar shaped generations of comedians – and vanished
‘When Caesar Was King’ documents the rise and fall of 1950s TV comedian Sid Caesar. Author and longtime Vanity Fair journalist David Margolick describes the book as celebration of a ‘secular Jewish sensibility’ that’s disappearing
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Man arrested on suspicion of involvement in attack at a Manchester synagogue that killed two
Two congregation members were killed in the Yom Kippur attack, one of whom was accidentally shot by a police officer as congregants barricaded the synagogue to block the attacker from entering, who was killed by police. The man was detained on…
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