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Levi, Thirza and Ezra: Why are non-Jewish Dutch parents giving their children Jewish names?

Some are attracted to them for religious reasons. Others just like the short, decisive sounds of Hebrew names.

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 21, 2021 8:00 am

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A leather shop that used to be a synagogue in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Cnaan Liphshiz

For Mallorca’s Jews, their first ‘public’ sukkah is a triumph over the Spanish Inquisition

The island’s first sukkah made in tandem with local government represents a community’s steady resurgence.

September 20, 2021 3:07 pm

Asylum seekers from Afghanistan reach Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates on Sept. 6, 2021. (IsraAID)

Israeli philanthropists help dozens flee Afghanistan for United Arab Emirates

The coalition included Aaron G. Frenkel, who airlifted thousands of Jews from Russia, and IsraAID.

September 20, 2021 2:25 pm

A Torah scroll that the Nazis stole from a Czech congregation on display at The Memorial Scrolls Trust in London, UK. (Courtesy of the European Union for Progressive Judaism)

Torah scroll the Nazis stole for their post-Holocaust ‘Jewish museum’ returns to service in Prague

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 20, 2021 2:17 pm

Thieves caught trying to take over 200 Jewish headstones from Argentine Jewish cemetery

By JTA Staff September 20, 2021 1:39 pm

Operators prepare the Holocaust Memorial of Names for its opening in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Sept. 2, 2021. (Ramon van Flymen / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands Out via Getty Images)

Amsterdam’s latest Holocaust memorial features the names of 102,000 victims

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 20, 2021 12:06 am

Visitors study the Grande Mosque in the district of Empalot in Toulouse, on June 23, 2018. (Eric Cabanis/AFP via Getty Images)

French court acquits imam of incitement charges for quoting text commanding Muslims to kill Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 17, 2021 10:14 am

Police guard the synagogue of Hagen, Germany on Sept. 16, 2021. (Roberto Pfeil/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Plan to attack German synagogue on Yom Kippur was foiled, police say

By Toby Axelrod September 17, 2021 9:43 am

Snow falls on the Okopowa Street Jewish cemtery in Warsaw, Poland. (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Human remains found in former Warsaw Ghetto buried in Jewish cemetery

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 17, 2021 9:35 am

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