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Dennis Gaitsgory (left) and guest attend the 11th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Barker Hangar on April 5, 2025 in Santa Monica, California. (Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize)

Breakthrough Prize winner Dennis Gaitsgory is planning to attend a protest in Israel

The Israeli-American mathematician spoke with JTA about his experience since Oct. 7, 2023, how it feels to win the prize and what message he would send to Israelis today.

The Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oswiecm, Poland receives about 1% of the 2.3 million visitors who come to the former death camp each year. (Courtesy of the Auschwitz Jewish Center)

80 years after Auschwitz, kosher food will be sold in its town of Oświęcim

The Auschwitz Jewish Center is now selling packaged kosher food, in a move both practical and symbolic.

Sotheby's is auctioning what it says is the earliest known kiddush cup. (Courtesy of Sotheby's)

Sotheby’s to auction earliest known kiddush cup

The artifact has an estimated value of $3 million to $5 million.

New HBO Max series ‘Reformed’ depicts a French woman rabbi inspired by Delphine Horvilleur

As Netanyahu arrives in Budapest, Hungary announces exit from International Criminal Court

Citing post-Holocaust doctrine, Germany seeks to deport 4 pro-Palestinian protesters

Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy painting by Henry Gibbs, 1654

Britain’s Tate to return Nazi-looted painting to heirs of Jewish art collector

3 sentenced to death for murder of UAE Chabad rabbi

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