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Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman reaches top 20 in world tennis rankings

Following his victory in the Rio Open, Schwartzman becomes first Jewish player to reach the top 20 since American Brad Gilbert in 1990.

This Jewish grandmother was sentenced to death in Iran. Holland won’t grant her asylum.

Convicted of political offenses, 60-year-old Sipora is an illegal immigrant in the Netherlands, but fears immigrating to Israel would endanger her husband back in Tehran.

A soaring number of Sephardic Jews acquired Portuguese citizenship in 2017

The tally is six times higher than for 2016, when a new law hit bureaucratic snags amid political changes.

Palestinian stone-thrower bitten by Israeli army dog sues Dutch breeder

Palestinian ex-terrorist deported from US invited to speak in Amsterdam

500 Icelandic physicians back bill to outlaw circumcision

Polish senator suspended for klezmer-themed video of Nazi violence to Jews

US agrees to Libyan request that activists say prevents Jewish artifacts from leaving the country

Poland needs a ‘Polocaust’ museum to tell story of its non-Jewish Nazi victims, government minister says

Israel says it thwarted an Islamic State plan to bomb Australian flight

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