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• In a Ukrainian Jewish orphanage, Tikva, economic downturn hits home

  February 15, 2012 6:35pm

  The challenges facing a Jewish home in Ukraine for orphaned and impoverished children are a sign of the toll that the global economic downturn is having on Jewish institutions in already financially strapped nations.

• Ukrainian historian makes career in Jewish heritage travel

  January 12, 2012 5:18pm

  Alex Dunai may not be Jewish, but he’s built a profitable career researching the Jewish communities of western Ukraine.

• Return to shtetl gives texture to reporter’s family history

  January 11, 2012 8:51pm

  After six months of traveling Europe, Alex Weisler headed back to his family’s shtetl and found the past to be a living, breathing, complex thing.

• In tiny Gibraltar, an outsized Jewish infrastructure

  December 11, 2011 10:05pm

  In tiny Gibraltar, a community of just 750 Jews has created a substantial Jewish infrastructure.

• In Mallorca, a year of breakthroughs for descendants of Jews

  December 8, 2011 5:35pm

  After centuries of exclusion, the Chueta community — descendants of Jews living on the Spanish island of Mallorca — are finally having a banner year.

• American-style Jewish fraternities cross Atlantic to Britain

  November 30, 2011 9:34pm

  Jewish fraternities are leading the introduction of American-style Greek life to the United Kingdom, but not everyone is ready to don a toga to celebrate their arrival.

• Russian book fair honors Israel-themed tome

  November 28, 2011 3:34pm

  An Israel-themed book was chosen as one of Russia’s top books of the year for the first time in an annual book conference’s history.

• Belgian Jewish teen beaten by Moroccan classmates

  November 22, 2011 2:54pm

  The beating of a 13-year-old Jewish girl in Brussels has Belgium’s Jewish umbrella group contemplating civil action.

• How to succeed in picking a chief rabbi successor in Britain

  November 15, 2011 8:03pm

  Synagogue leaders in Britain say they will be more transparent and more inclusive of women as they move toward naming a successor to longtime Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks before the end of 2012.

• Limmud expands dramatically in former Soviet states

  November 7, 2011 5:52pm

  As Limmud continues its global expansion, Russian Jews are embracing the model and infusing it with their own flavor.