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An Israeli flag football team forfeited a game on Shabbat. It won the European championship anyway.

A majority of Israel’s under-17 men’s flag football players are Orthodox.

Ireland’s first kosher restaurant in decades attracts local Jews and non-Jewish celebrities

Maurice Cohen, president of the Ireland Jewish Representative Council, believes that Deli 613 is the first fully kosher eatery in Ireland since the late 1960s.

‘Tatami,’ a film inspired by Iran’s Israeli athlete boycott, is making movie history

It is being billed as the first major film co-produced by Israeli and Iranian filmmakers.

Barcelona resumes ‘sister city’ relationship with Tel Aviv, reversing former mayor’s decision

A Swiss university is hiring its next Jewish studies professor. Jews need not apply.

98-year-old German man charged with accessory to murder at Nazi concentration camp

More than 20,000 Israelis sought Portuguese nationality last year

The UK’s defense secretary is Jewish, a first since the 1990s

After leading minister joked about Nazis, Finland moves to criminalize Holocaust denial

Holocaust survivor group claims victory after Christie’s cancels second auction of jewelry linked to Nazi plunder

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