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The former Great Synagogue of Lutsk, Ukraine. (The Center for Jewish Art/Foundation for Jewish Heritage)

Rare ‘fortress synagogue’ to return to Jewish ownership in Lutsk, Ukraine

The 17th-century structure, which the Germans destroyed and the Soviets turned into a sports facility, last served as a Jewish house of worship in 1942.

European soccer’s Super League is over — and fans can thank Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich

The Russian-Jewish oil magnate who runs the prestigious Chelsea club with an iron fist is being called an unlikely savior of British soccer.

Friedrich Karl Berger in 1959. (Source: U.S. Department of Justice)

Germany won’t prosecute 95-year-old former concentration camp guard deported from US

Friedrich Karl Berger did not serve at a death camp, so the evidence against him “is not sufficient as such to prove the crime,” prosecutors said.

Students explore Camp Amersfoort in the NEtherlands on April 19, 2021. (Mike Bink/National Monument Kamp Amersfoort)

Museum opens at one of Holland’s most infamous Nazi camps

Despite COVID lockdowns, anti-Semitic incidents rise in Berlin

Isabel Frey is a 26-year-old Bundist who records protest songs in Yiddish. Now she’s also an Austrian politician.

Jerusalem rabbinical court orders Hungary to freeze funding temporarily for feuding Jewish groups

Oscar-nominated filmmakers to produce documentary on French Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld

Warsaw unveils monument to secret underground archive that documented the Holocaust’s horror

Bernardo Strozzi’s "Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well" at the Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle, the Netherlands. (Museum de Fundatie)

Dutch museum will pay $240K to owners of Nazi-looted painting it won’t return

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