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Far-right politician who praised Nazi collaborators shocks with top finish in Romanian presidential election

Calin Georgescu now heads to a runoff against a liberal lawmaker.

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George Simion, president of Romania's right-wing AUR party

This Romanian party called the Holocaust a ‘minor topic.’ Israel’s envoy just met with its leader.

Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, did not support the meeting.

Romania’s ornate and sometimes crumbling synagogues get new access via virtual tours

The tours are intended to generate awareness about and support for the Jewish communities of the Banat region.

The Torah in Romanian.

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This Romanian rabbi spent 7 years translating the Torah into Romanian — even though he moved away

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In a Romanian resort town, Jewish children from Odessa celebrate Purim as refugees

An actress in a mask in a scene from a movie

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Sex, lies, videotape — and antisemitism: Indie film uses shock value to discuss Jewish persecution in Romania

Aurel Vainer with children

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Romanian Jews bid ‘goodbye to an era’ with death of their longtime leader, Aurel Vainer, at 89

The aftermath of vandalism at the synagogue of Orastie, Romania, which was recorded on June 28, 2021. (Transylvania News)

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Teenagers shatter 19th-century synagogue’s windows in Romania

The interior of the Great Synagogue of Slonim, Belarus pictured in 2007. (Wikimedia Commons)

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In Eastern Europe, historic synagogues are sold for the price of a used car

The ledger of the burial society of Cluj, Romania. (Kestenbaum & Company)

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Brooklyn auction house suspends sale of 19th-century document that Romanian Jews say was stolen in the Holocaust

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