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Nearly 200 US and UK scholars back British lecturer who called Jewish students ‘pawns’ of Israel

Television host Orlin Gorbanov in Sofia, Bulgaria on May 20, 2016. (Biser Todorov/Wikimedia Commons)

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Bulgarian game show host quotes anti-Semitic rantings by chess champion Bobby Fischer

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Puppets of Mordechai and Hitler made by Nechama Mayer-Hirsch in 1951. (Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam)

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The Dock Worker, a statue that stands in front of the Portuguese synagogue, was inaugurated in 1952 to commemorate the participants of the 1941 February Strike in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

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How the 1941 Dutch February Strike turbocharged a growing resistance movement in Nazi Europe

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Bulgarian game show host quotes anti-Semitic rantings by chess champion Bobby Fischer

Biden’s first military action: Strike on Iranian-backed targets in Syria

Hitler as Haman? An Amsterdam museum holds a relic of that post-Holocaust Purim tradition.

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Israel’s ‘vaccine diplomacy’ is a scandal, not Michael Che’s ‘SNL’ joke

I can’t fast for Jewish holidays without being reminded of our toxic diet culture

Queen Esther helped me become the hero of my own Persian Jewish story

How the 1941 Dutch February Strike turbocharged a growing resistance movement in Nazi Europe

Mary Heller Cope, one of the first exchange students to Germany after World War II

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