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The Finnish parliament in Helsinki, Finland on Sept. 4, 2017. (Wikimedia Commons Tiina Tuukkanen)

Proposal to ban circumcision of boys scrapped from Finland bill

The language was added and then removed in committee to legislation targeting female genital mutilation.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tests positive for COVID-19

“I will overcome COVID19 as most people do. It’s gonna be fine!” wrote Zelensky, who added he is feeling “good.”

Reuven Rivlin and Antonio Guterres, left, meet in Jerusalem, Israel on Aug. 28, 2017. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

World Jewish Congress honors UN boss Antonio Guterres for efforts to end anti-Israel bias

The “bizarre fixation on the Jewish state” is dangerous to Israel and demeaning to the international forum, WJC President Ronald Lauder said.

All the lights are on at the Great Synagogue of Stockholm, Sweden on Nov. 9, 2020. (Ute Steyer)

European synagogues keep on their lights to mark 1938 Kristallnacht pogroms

The aftermath of vandalism at the Jewish cemetery of Malyn, Ukraine in November 2020. (Evgeny Gorodetsky)

Headstones smashed at Jewish cemetery in Ukraine

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Jonathan Sacks, former UK chief rabbi and Jewish ‘intellectual giant,’ dies at 72

Two Israeli women arrivng to Lisbon, Portugal on Feb. 15, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Portugal has naturalized 23,000 applicants under Jewish law of return

Kosher meat from a cow that was slaughtered in Poland in Nov. 2013 carrying a kosher certification from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. (Aryeh Gross)

Polish government vows to introduce new bill to end ritual slaughter

The Grenfell tower burns in London, UK on 14 June, 2017. (Natalie Oxford/Wikimedia Commons)

Panels clears UK pharmacist who said ‘Zionists’ were responsible for London fire

A RATP bus with a billboard of Sacha Baron Cohen wearing a ring with the word Allah on it moves through Paris, France on Nov. 2, 2020. (Courtesy of @firehairedreamr/Twitter)

‘Borat’ ads featuring Sacha Baron Cohen wearing ‘Allah’ ring (and little else) anger Paris Muslims

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