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Israel declines to sign UN statement on China’s treatment of Uighurs

While the U.S., U.K., Germany and Australia were among the group of 43 countries that signed the statement, an Israeli diplomatic official said the Israeli government had “other interests that it has to balance.”

Actors Milla Bankowicz and Robert Wieckiewicz portray members of the Chiger family trying to survive the Holocaust during filming in Lviv, Ukraine in 2011. (Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)

Inspired by a 2011 movie, Ukrainian researchers have found the Lviv sewer where dozens of Jews escaped the Nazis

The researchers discovered how at least 20 Jews were able to remain alive in the gutter for more than a year among rats and worms during the Holocaust.

French President Emmanuel Macron, third from right, visits the Dreyfus Museumin Medan near Paris, on Oct. 26, 2021. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)

The Alfred Dreyfus affair shocked Jews in France. Now there’s a museum devoted to it.

The new institution is housed in the former home of Émile Zola, a non-Jewish writer who led the fight against the army captain’s antisemitic persecution on bogus spying charges.