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Women celebrate Rosh Chodesh el Banat in Jerusalem, Israel in December 2019. (Aliza Lavie)

Israelis want to bring back North African Jewry’s feminist Hanukkah tradition

Rosh Chodesh el Benat was a chance for mothers to pass on female pride, as well as dowry treasures, in a family atmosphere that featured exquisitely rich pastries.

A boy visitng the Kazerne Dossin Holocaust museum in Mechelen, Belgium on Dec. 22, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

4 passengers threaten to blow up Belgian train unless ‘cancer Jews’ get off

The incident happened between Antwerp and Mechelen, the former dispatch center of Holocaust victims to death camps in Poland.

Joseph Safra, Brazil’s richest person and Jewish philanthropist, dies at 82

Forbes magazine said Safra was the richest banker in the world, with a fortune estimated at $23 billion.

Halle synagogue shooter denies the Holocaust in closing statement of his trial

French man who stabbed neighbor to ‘kill a Jew’ declared unfit to stand trial

Snow falls on a Hanukkah Menorah made of ice in Tomsk, Russia on Dec. 8, 2020. (Levy Kaminetsky)

A Siberian synagogue has a 10-foot menorah made of ice

Dutch government criticizes country’s own Holocaust restitution policy that has blocked families from return of stolen art

A woman stands in a field that used to be part of a Jewish cemetery in Hulyaipole, Ukraine in December 2021. (TCN)

Farmers desecrate Jewish cemetery in Ukraine

3 players suspended from Argentina’s rugby team after anti-Semitic tweets discovered, but reinstated days later

Trump administration wants Holocaust restitution cases heard outside US. The Supreme Court seems skeptical.

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