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Polish scholar Barbara Engelking receives Karski award

Polish scholar Barbara Engelking received this year’s Jan Karski and Pola Nirenska Award.

Putin: Jewish teacher’s jail sentence ‘egregious’

Russian President Vladimir Putin said a court in Tver may have acted “egregiously” in sentencing a Jewish rural teacher to seven years in jail for taking $13,000 in bribes.

Pope Francis praises Jews for keeping their faith amid ‘trials’

Pope Francis praised Jews for keeping their faith despite the Holocaust and other “terrible trials” throughout history, and reaffirmed Judaism as the “holy root” of Christianity.

Australian Orthodox leader apologizes for ‘culture of cover-up’ on abuse

British soccer body says term ‘yid’ inappropriate at games

Putin denies report Russia will sell Iran advanced anti-aircraft missile batteries

Jewish center in strapped Spanish city shuts doors

Israel to pay more than $1 million to family of Ben Zygier

Romanian town defends cell tower construction in Jewish cemetery

Heirs of German Jewish art dealers await hearing on looted treasure

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