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Over 1,100 synagogues to provide young Jewish people with free High Holidays seats

Synagogue Connect will help Jewish young people between the ages of 18 and 26 to find the synagogue with the appropriate affiliation near them to attend Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services.

Inspiring Jews who died in 5779

This year the task of remembering the departed is particularly fraught: Twelve people on the list were lost to acts of violence in U.S. synagogues.

2 new synagogues open in Budapest

Hungary has about 100,000 Jews, by far the largest Jewish community in Central Europe.

Extreme Jewish religious sect Lev Tahor requested political asylum from Iran

United Arab Emirates will build its first official synagogue

Fellow writers defend British author stripped of prize for her support of Israel boycott

The interior of the Choral Synagogue in Vilnius, Lithuania (Wikimedia Commons)

Vilnius, a hub of Torah study destroyed by Nazis, to get new yeshiva

Bulgaria opens 1st Jewish school in over 20 years

Austria’s oldest Holocaust survivor dies at 106

Iceland fined for displaying Palestinian flags at Eurovision

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