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By Andrew Adler Community Editor On the evening of Monday, April 13, Louisville’s Jewish community will mark Yom HaShoah with ceremonies at Congregation Adath Jeshurun. The remembrance will include remarks by Holocaust survivor Ruth Kline, whose family emigrated from Germany … Read More
By Shira Li Bartov, Alice D’Oléon, Orge Castellano and Jacob Judah MADRID, PARIS and LONDON (JTA) — As the bloody war in Israel and Gaza continues to escalate, many European Jews are bracing for reverberations far from the frontlines. … Read More
By Toby Axelro BERLIN (JTA) — Germany’s largest Jewish center since World War II and one of the largest of its kind in the world opened on Sunday in Berlin with a dedication ceremony that included diplomats and communal leaders … Read More
Linda Leeser always knew her father had played the violin, but she can’t recall a time when she heard him play it. “It’s been tucked in my closet since my father died in ’81,” she said. “Of all the instruments … Read More
Jews who attended a recent conference of Asian congregations in Singapore came from some exotic places – including Phnom Penh. That’s right, there are Jews in Cambodia – a place better known for the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge. … Read More
An interesting and complicated situation is going on in German politics right now. In the last few years, Germany has taken in hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and many other parts of the Middle East, causing … Read More