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Zsolt Balla stands on the sidelines of a press conference in the synagogue of Dresden, Germany on January, 2019. (Sebastian Kahnert/picture alliance via Getty Images)

A rabbi from Hungary will be the German army’s first rabbi chaplain since the Holocaust

Zsolt Balla cited the emphasis on ethics education in the German army as important to his decision to join the institution that made the Holocaust possible.

Krakow city official says good-luck figurines of Jews are ‘antisemitic’ and should not be sold

The city may deny market concessions to vendors of the depictions of Orthodox Jews, who are often shown counting money.

Ewa Jasiewicz attends a protest rally against Israel in Istanbul, Turkey on June 3, 2010. (Bulent Kilic/AFP via Getty Images)

Journalist who vandalized Warsaw Ghetto wall is teaching British teachers about antisemitism

A leader of British Jews called Ewa Jasiewicz’s new role within the National Education Union “grotesque.”

Page 95 of 'The Diary of Anne Frank' quotes her writing about feeling 'ecstasy' every time she sees a female nudes painting. (Anne Frank Fonds/Calman Levy)

Brazilian parents protest teaching of new Anne Frank diary containing sexual descriptions

Far-left French presidential candidate suggests Toulouse Jewish school murders were part of elections conspiracy

Students and pedestrians attend a cultural event at the University of Vienna, Austria on April 12, 2015. (Wikimedia Commons)

Vienna university announces new $9,000 scholarships for young Jewish studies researchers

The after math of vandalism at the Jewish cemetery of Ploesti, Romania in June 2021. (MCA Romania)

Headstones smashed at Jewish cemeteries in Ukraine and Romania

David Dushman at a memorial service in Berlin in 2015. (Markus Heine/NurPhoto/Getty Images)

David Dushman, Auschwitz liberator who drove a tank through its fence, dies at 98

A cyclist passes by the synagogue of Ulm, Germany on March 13, 2017. (Wikimedia Commons)

Arson suspected outside German synagogue

The New York Times called Isaac Bashevis Singer a Polish writer. Here’s how Wikipedia warriors made him Jewish again.

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