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Participants in the Miszpucha Foundation trip for Polish Jewish emigrants and their descendants have lunch at the Jewish Community Center in Warsaw, Poland. (Adam de Kaminski)
Posted inWorld

13,000 Jews were driven out of Poland in 1968. Now, some are returning to tell their story.

Shira Li Bartov by Shira Li Bartov June 12, 2026June 12, 2026

(JTA) — In March 1968, Rachelle Halpern walked into her university in Szczecin, Poland, and found a group of her classmates gathered around a newspaper. She asked what they were […]

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At the dawn of the World Cup, the story of the Jews who helped bring soccer to America

by Dan Friedman June 11, 2026June 11, 2026
Marchers take part in the Roma Pride parade in Rome, June 11, 2022. (Camelia Boban/Wikimedia Commons)
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Rome’s Pride parade bars Jewish LGBTQ float over refusal to call Gaza war ‘genocide’

Simone Somekh by Simone Somekh May 29, 2026May 29, 2026
Mohammad al-Saadi, right, meets with former Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani in an undated photograph that the U.S. Justice Department said came from al-Saadi's social media accounts. (DOJ)
Posted inU.S.

U.S. charges Iraqi with organizing synagogue attacks on behalf of Iran

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer May 18, 2026May 18, 2026
Noam Bettan from Israel celebrates reaching the final of the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in the Stadthalle in Vienna, May 12, 2026.(Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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Noam Bettan says he is tuning out ‘genocide’ chants as he heads into Eurovision final

by Deborah Danan May 14, 2026May 14, 2026
Abe Foxman at an Anti-Defamation League event at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, May 8, 2014. (Michael Kovac/WireImage/Getty Images)
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Abraham Foxman, transformative longtime director of the ADL, dies at 86

by Ron Kampeas May 11, 2026May 11, 2026
People celebrate during a rally over the killing of former Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khameini at Harry Bridges Plaza in San Francisco, March 1, 2026. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inWorld

Monitored phone calls and fear of arrest: What life looks like for Iran’s Jews now

by Simone Saidmehr May 8, 2026May 8, 2026
A march against antisemitism, Paris, Nov. 12, 2023. (Siren-Com/Wikimedia Commons)
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Do Jews have a future in Europe? A historian of antisemitism has her doubts.

by Andrew Silow-Carroll May 7, 2026May 7, 2026
A rendering of helical DNA structures. (onlyyouqj/iStock)
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Her body has been unidentified for decades. Her Ashkenazi DNA may explain why

by Hannah Feuer May 7, 2026May 7, 2026
La America, a Ladino paper from the U.S., published 1911. (Courtesy NIL)
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Stanford Ladino scholar keeps grip on fading Ottoman Jewish world

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 24, 2026April 24, 2026

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