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Masks of all kinds: Scenes from a pandemic Purim across the world

For some, this was the first pandemic Purim. For others, it was the second. For all, it was a chance to celebrate despite COVID-19.

By JTA Staff February 26, 2021 3:02 pm

Nearly 200 US and UK scholars back British lecturer who called Jewish students ‘pawns’ of Israel

The University of Bristol professor also said Israel was “a violent, racist, foreign regime engaged in ethnic cleansing.”

February 26, 2021 12:04 pm

$Alexander Klyachin listens to and Marina Loshak, director of the Pushkin State Museum at her institution in Moscow, Russia on Sept. 30, 2019. (Mikhail Metzel\TASS via Getty Images)$

‘Pride exists to be part of something Jewish’: Russian billionaire to head Moscow museum’s board

Alexander Klyachin has not served in any Jewish community leadership roles.

February 26, 2021 10:31 am

Television host Orlin Gorbanov in Sofia, Bulgaria on May 20, 2016. (Biser Todorov/Wikimedia Commons)

Bulgarian game show host quotes anti-Semitic rantings by chess champion Bobby Fischer

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 26, 2021 10:09 am

Biden’s first military action: Strike on Iranian-backed targets in Syria

By Ron Kampeas February 25, 2021 9:19 pm

Puppets of Mordechai and Hitler made by Nechama Mayer-Hirsch in 1951. (Courtesy of the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam)

Hitler as Haman? An Amsterdam museum holds a relic of that post-Holocaust Purim tradition.

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 25, 2021 5:51 pm

First Person

On a Jewish tour of northern Ontario, small spaces convey decades of history

By Robert Walker February 25, 2021 4:27 pm

The Dock Worker, a statue that stands in front of the Portuguese synagogue, was inaugurated in 1952 to commemorate the participants of the 1941 February Strike in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

How the 1941 Dutch February Strike turbocharged a growing resistance movement in Nazi Europe

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 25, 2021 3:52 pm

An excavator digs near a mass grave of Jews in Veliucionys, Lithuania in February 2021. (Ruta Vanagaite)

Digging documented near privately owned mass grave of Jews in Lithuania

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 25, 2021 10:04 am

Azerbaijan’s Jews postpone public Purim events in deference to national memorial day

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 25, 2021 9:48 am

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