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Queen’s Australian representative visits Great Synagogue of Sydney

The synagogue’s rabbi called the visit “a sign of respect for the Jewish community.”

Fleeing recession and violence, Brazilian Jews moving to Israel in record numbers

Aliyah from the South American country has more than doubled in the past four years.

Dutch Schultz, Ruthless Jewish Mobster of the Bronx

The nostalgia machine known as contemporary American Jewish identity has done something curious to the Jewish thugs, loan sharks, and all-around bad guys of the past: we’ve bestowed upon them, for some reason we would like to understand, an aura of cute. But there was nothing cute about them. And certainly not about Dutch Schultz. […]

British-American Jewish academic under investigation for Jewish Nazi comment

French far-right National Front party wins first round of local elections

In Paris, public Hanukkah ceremonies held despite security concerns

U.S. congressmen protest statue honoring Hungarian minister who deported Jews

Elton John to headline Life Festival in Auschwitz town

SF Bay Area foundation to provide mezuzahs for Israeli army bases

German Muslim leader helps complete writing of Torah scroll

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