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In Germany, where police brutality is rare, cadets learn mandatory Holocaust history

In Berlin, for example, all trainees visit the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp, a New York Times report shows.

By Gabe Friedman June 26, 2020 12:41 pm

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Chabad says 100,000 people attended Zoom commemoration for Rabbi Menachem Schneerson

The influential rabbi’s legacy was celebrated in what could be the world’s biggest Zoom gathering to date.

June 25, 2020 6:12 pm

For elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union, COVID-19 lockdown loneliness is debilitating

Organizations like the JDC are calling elderly, often poor Jews to make up for the social networks the pandemic has destroyed.

June 25, 2020 5:04 pm

Allen Fagin, head of the Orthodox Union, reflects on how the pandemic has changed Orthodox life

By Shira Hanau June 25, 2020 4:19 pm

Facebook prank tricks thousands into thinking ‘Back to the Future’ actors are Israeli couple from the 1950s

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 25, 2020 4:04 pm

Jewish teens help successful effort to abolish Oakland’s school police force

By Gabriel Greschler June 25, 2020 12:47 pm

More Bay Area Jewish Community Centers slash budgets and lay off staff members

By Gabe Stutman June 25, 2020 11:08 am

Jenny Slate

Jenny Slate decides to leave Netflix’s ‘Big Mouth’ because her character is half Black

By Gabe Friedman June 24, 2020 4:59 pm

This quiz show aficionado has won JTA’s ‘You Call That News?!?’ 4 times. Who will break his streak?

By Philissa Cramer June 24, 2020 4:19 pm

In Germany, several churches have perverse anti-Semitic sculptures from the Middle Ages. Can one man get them taken down?

By Toby Axelrod June 23, 2020 4:34 pm

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