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After two weeks in Paris – including a reporting trip to Amsterdam and a personal weekend in Lyon – I finally visited Le Marais, Paris’s iconic Jewish neighborhood. Though larger, newer Jewish communities have cropped up in other Paris neighborhoods like Belleville and Pantin, Le Marais is still the historical center of the city’s yiddishkeit. […]

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Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum in Israel, has an unexpected new ally in its efforts to chronicle the Nazi atrocities: Google. Each day, Yad Vashem gets literally hundreds of requests for information about Holocaust victims. It’s impossible for the museum to respond to all of them. But a collaborative project with Google offers massive assistance…in the form of […]

* Sue Fishkoff, JTA’s staff writer in the San Francisco Bay Area, is leaving the news agency to become the editor of j., the Jewish news weekly of Northern California, succeeding longtime editor and publisher Marc Klein. Nora Contini, j.’s associate publisher, will become publisher. * Professor Suzanne Last Stone of Yeshiva University was appointed academic […]

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