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Three Sisters Travel to Germany to Lay Stones for Family Members Who Fled World...

  Three sisters who grew up in Baltimore knew little about their mother fleeing Nazi Germany as a toddler. But an unexpected call from a...

In the Netherlands, a Majority Do Not Know the Holocaust Affected Their Country

A recent study of the Dutch population conducted by the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany showed an alarming lack of education around...

One Month Ahead of Ukraine War Anniversary, JDC Widens Care for Jews in Europe

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As the world prepares to commemorate one year since the start of the crisis in Ukraine, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) continues and is expanding its...

AJC Survey on Holocaust Knowledge Among Americans Shows Few Know Numbers, Details

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Most U.S. adults know when the Holocaust happened and are familiar with Auschwitz, but fewer are cognizant about the number of Jews murdered and...

Online Holocaust Denial Suppressed in English, Though Rife in Arabic

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As International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27 forces Jews to ask themselves how safe they feel, new data from CyberWell has revealed social-media...

‘Jews Out!’ German Board Game on Exhibit at Tel Aviv University Library

On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, a new exhibition at the Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi...

Five Rabbis Sue State of Missouri Over Abortion Bans on Religious Freedom Grounds

Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA Five rabbis from multiple Jewish denominations are among more than a dozen Missouri faith leaders challenging the state’s ban on abortion. In a lawsuit...

New Images Discovered in Poland Offer Never-Before-Seen Perspective on Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

For the last 80 years, the only way to see images of Jews rising up against their captors in the Warsaw Ghetto has been...

Jeanette Kuvin Oren Stamps Style and Beauty Into Synagogue and Judaica Creations, Large and...

The Baltimore Jewish community and people across the world are seeing the work of Judaic artist Jeanette Kuvin Oren everywhere they look. Her artistic...

World Briefs: Tennis Champion Dick Savitt Dies at 95 and more

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Tennis Champion Dick Savitt Dies at 95 Dick Savitt, the Jewish tennis champion who won both the Australian Open and Wimbledon Championships in 1951, died...