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Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center

EU official says the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s annual antisemitism list has gone too far

Katharina von Schnurbein, the European Union’s coordinator for fighting antisemitism, says the center’s list is now hurting the cause it means to uplift.

Right-wing Romanian political party calls Holocaust education ‘minor topic,’ drawing sharp rebuke

The country has recently mandated the subject in all high schools.

Kazakhstan’s Jews, who ‘steer clear’ of politics, are sitting out their country’s bloody unrest

The country’s synagogues have shut down, but Jewish heritage sites appear to be unharmed as violence rages in the city of Almaty.

Mantua, Italy, to get Jewish museum on burial site of 17th-century Kabbalist masters

Brazilian court fines American Airlines for ’emotional suffering’ to passengers denied kosher food

In Germany and Austria, a movement of grandmothers is taking on the far right

Former Dutch Prime Minister Dries van Agt

Former Dutch prime minister criticized for accusing Israeli settlers of poisoning Palestinians

A screenshot from a virtual tour of the Jews of Singapore Museum

A new museum tells the story of Singapore’s Jews, starting with their Baghdad roots

British rabbi ends his regular contributions to the BBC, saying no Jew ‘who has any pride’ can work there

Quebec shutters houses of worship in response to Omicron variant

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