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KLM airplanes at Schiphol airport in the Netherlands. (KLM)

Dutch airline KLM discriminated when it asked woman to move for Orthodox man, watchdog finds

The flight crew bumped the wife of a lawmaker from her seat because a observant Jewish man wouldn’t sit near her on a flight from New York to Amsterdam.

German city enlists rapper who joked about Holocaust for social distancing PSA

Farid Bang in a 2018 song rapped about “another Holocaust” and having bodies “more sculpted than an Auschwitz inmate.”

Rainer Hoess poses at a school after speaking to students about his grandfather's legacy in Toronto, Canada on Nov. 19, 2019. (Andrew Francis Wallace/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

Grandson of Auschwitz commander Rudolf Hoess, who criticized his family history, is a criminal, report claims

Rainer Hoess’ reckoning with his family’s past made him a media darling. Along the way, he has defrauded several people out of thousands of dollars.

There are 49 Jews left on the British island of Jersey. The pandemic has pushed their one synagogue to the brink.

Irina Shur (Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography)

Holocaust survivor, 90, stabbed to death in her Moscow apartment

Former concentration camp guard, 93, gets suspended sentence as accessory to murder of 5,230

British lecturer fired for making racist claims, including that Jews are ‘the cleverest in the world’

Genesis Philanthropy Group names 39-year-old woman as new CEO

Israeli diplomats buy 600 pounds of tahini to back Arab-Israeli businesswoman hit by boycott

Twitter says it accidentally closed the accounts of some users for posting Star of David

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