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Hundreds of men pack into Brooklyn study hall and street for Hasidic rabbi’s funeral

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‘It isn’t Jewish’: Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi denigrates Reform conversions

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eBay removes Nazi toys from its marketplace

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In new Passover children’s books, a bespectacled lion reads the Haggadah and a Depression-era mitzvah

By Penny Schwartz March 8, 2021 11:28 am

Moldova synagogue

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Rabbi in Moldova helps save a life and scores matzah for his community

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 5, 2021 12:58 pm

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks at the House of Commons in London, UK on March 3, 2021. (House of Commons)

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Changes to UK bill would make it easier to punish husbands who refuse Jewish divorce

Yaniv Iczkovits

Culture

Yaniv Iczkovits’ shtetl mystery ‘The Slaughterman’s Daughter’ wins top UK Jewish book prize

Global

Diego Schwartzman becomes emotional after finally winning hometown Argentina Open

Culture

A varsity letter, 63 years late: California cantor helps reverse a homophobic snub

By Gabriel Greschler March 5, 2021 11:10 am

Global

‘Peaceful existence’: Jews in Iran freely observe their religion, communal leader says

By Gary Rosenblatt March 5, 2021 10:59 am

The interior of the Great Synagogue of Slonim, Belarus pictured in 2007. (Wikimedia Commons)

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In Eastern Europe, historic synagogues are sold for the price of a used car

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 5, 2021 10:43 am

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