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PRAGUE, Sept. 17 (JTA) — An article in a London newspaper has led to an emotional reunion of Holocaust survivors at a Prague Jewish community center. The gathering earlier this month was initiated by Czech-born Israeli resident Hana Greenfield, who wrote an article about a late cousin for the London-based Jewish Chronicle nearly two years […]

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PRAGUE, Sept. 17 (JTA) — The race is on to save and restore a cemetery that contains the remains of one of Judaism’s most revered spiritual leaders of the 18th and 19th centuries. For decades in the Slovak capital of Bratislava, the earthly remains of Rabbi Chatam Sofer and other leading Jewish figures have been […]

NEW YORK, Sept. 14 (JTA) — In February, Austria announced plans to rapidly resolve all Holocaust restitution claims against it. Vienna’s enthusiasm for settling these claims came days after the European Union imposed sanctions against Austria for including a far-right party in its new government. Several American Jewish leaders rejected the about-face, charging it was […]

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