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Stolen Marc Chagall painting sells for $130,000 at auction in Israel

The buyer of the small oil painting is from Tel Aviv and wishes to remain anonymous,

Deborah Lauter, the new director of the New York City Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes, attends a press conference to denounce the hate crime attack in Jersey City in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York on December 12, 2019. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Getty Images)

She has 6 employees and less than $2 million. The mission: Stop anti-Semitism in New York City.

Some activists want Deborah Lauter, director of New York’s Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes, to focus on shorter-term solutions.

Kate Middleton took portraits of Holocaust survivors and their grandchildren

They will be part of an exhibition set to open this year of 75 images of survivors and members of their families to mark 75 years since the Holocaust’s end.

Vampire Weekend wins 2020 Grammy for best alternative album

Their romance ended. Then the duo behind Lola Marsh became Israel’s biggest indie band.

Ezra Schwartz, an American terror victim, loved baseball. Now there’s a field in Israel in his memory.

Israel’s Olympic baseball team preps for Tokyo and looks to expand the sport

You can’t defend haredi Orthodox Jews against violence while demonizing our schools

Fran Drescher doesn’t mind being single because she has a ‘friend with benefits’

Diego Schwartzman writes about his family’s Holocaust history

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