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• Marking numbers on refugees’ arms recalls Holocaust, Italian Jewish leaders say

  September 3, 2015 8:29am

  Czech police used felt-tipped pens to mark the hands and arms of refugees, mainly from Syria, taken off a train near the border crossing with Austria.

• Matisyahu performs outside Auschwitz following Spain appearance

  August 26, 2015 11:37am

  “Played in the last remaining Synagogue outside of Auschwitz in the city Oświęcim. Peace and blessings,” Matisyahu wrote on his Facebook page.

• Courting Jewish students, Charleston college builds kosher dining hall

  May 11, 2015 11:06am

  The South Carolina city is a foodie heaven if you embrace all things shellfish. Now the College of Charleston is spending $1 million to bring some kosher and vegetarian food into the mix.

• Italian police break up right-wing terror plots

  December 24, 2014 12:28pm

  Italian Jewish leaders praised authorities for breaking up a right-wing extremist network that appeared to have been planning terror attacks around the country.

• Right-wing extremists from around Europe meet in Milan

  December 21, 2014 8:12am

  The gathering, organized by the Italian far-right party Forza Nuova, was intended as the first meeting of a new pan-European party called Alliance for Peace and Freedom.

• Netanyahu, in Rome to meet with Kerry, rebuffs Palestinians’ deadlines

  December 15, 2014 3:17pm

  The Palestinians, working through Jordan, said they would present a U.N. Security Council resolution as early as this week giving Israel until November 2016 to leave the West Bank.

• Far-right rally, concert held in Milan despite protests

  November 30, 2014 8:04am

  The Milan Jewish community was among the organizations that had called on authorities to bar the concert, which Milan’s mayor criticized as “unacceptable.”

• Milan Jewish community asks authorities to bar neo-Nazi concert, rally

  November 27, 2014 5:03pm

  The gathering outside Milan is expected to draw neo-Nazi bands and hundreds of skinheads and other right-wing extremists from various countries.

• Italian aliyah expected to double in ’14

  November 23, 2014 1:22pm

  Several Italian Jewish leaders said economic distress figured strongly for the move, with Jews feeling that “they can lead a better life in Israel.”

• Pope prays for victims of Jerusalem synagogue terror attack

  November 19, 2014 4:13pm

  Pope Francis said he prayed for the victims of a terror attack on a Jerusalem synagogue and appealed for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.