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Jewish groups rejecting Hungary’s grants for Holocaust events

Several Jewish organizations in Hungary as a form of protest will not accept government grants for memorial events marking the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust.

Israeli high court freezes funds to haredi yeshivas over draft deferrals

Israel’s Supreme Court has frozen nearly $3 million in funding to haredi Orthodox yeshivas until the government stops military deferments for their students and passes a new law on drafting yeshiva students.

Report: Croatia probing ex-U.S. citizen on Auschwitz war crimes

Croatian authorities are investigating a former American citizen suspected of committing war crimes as an SS soldier and guard at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Party at Russian synagogue-Holocaust memorial causes uproar

After Polish ritual slaughter ban, competitors carve up a lucrative market

German non-Jews honored for preserving local Jewish history

Portugal’s oldest standing synagogue to become a museum

The Yiddish Separatists in the Siberian Wild

Children from haredi sect must return to Quebec, judge rules

Britain bars quenelle creator Dieudonne

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