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Interior view of the destroyed Fasanenstrasse Synagogue, Berlin, burned on Kristallnacht in 1938.

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‘Horrifying’: Germany still not safe for Jews, chancellor says on Kristallnacht anniversary

Speaking at a Munich synagogue, Friedrich Merz said armed guards outside Jewish institutions show open Jewish life in Germany is still not possible.

Rikki Zagelbaum

Nov 12, 2026

Interior view of the destroyed Fasanenstrasse Synagogue, Berlin, burned on Kristallnacht in 1938.

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‘Horrifying’: Germany still not safe for Jews, chancellor says on Kristallnacht anniversary

Speaking at a Munich synagogue, Friedrich Merz said armed guards outside Jewish institutions show open Jewish life in Germany is still not possible.

Rikki Zagelbaum

Nov 12, 2026

Interior view of the destroyed Fasanenstrasse Synagogue, Berlin, burned on Kristallnacht in 1938.

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‘Horrifying’: Germany still not safe for Jews, chancellor says on Kristallnacht anniversary

Speaking at a Munich synagogue, Friedrich Merz said armed guards outside Jewish institutions show open Jewish life in Germany is still not possible.

Rikki Zagelbaum

Nov 12, 2026

“Darse de pêche et bassin Duquesne,” a 1902 landscape painting by Danish-French painter Camille Pissarro. Photo courtesy of www.sothebys.com via Wikimedia Commons.

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Court orders Sotheby’s to return painting looted by Nazis to Jewish heirs

Lawyers for seven descendants of a French Jewish banker won a ruling over a 1902 Pissarro sold in London in 2024.

JNS

Nov 12, 2026

“Darse de pêche et bassin Duquesne,” a 1902 landscape painting by Danish-French painter Camille Pissarro. Photo courtesy of www.sothebys.com via Wikimedia Commons.

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Court orders Sotheby’s to return painting looted by Nazis to Jewish heirs

Lawyers for seven descendants of a French Jewish banker won a ruling over a 1902 Pissarro sold in London in 2024.

JNS

Nov 12, 2026

“Darse de pêche et bassin Duquesne,” a 1902 landscape painting by Danish-French painter Camille Pissarro. Photo courtesy of www.sothebys.com via Wikimedia Commons.

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Court orders Sotheby’s to return painting looted by Nazis to Jewish heirs

Lawyers for seven descendants of a French Jewish banker won a ruling over a 1902 Pissarro sold in London in 2024.

JNS

Nov 12, 2026

The view outside the “Six Dome Synagogue” (“The Grand Synagogue,” designed by architect Hillel Ben Haim in 1888), one of three synagogues in Quba in Azerbaijan. Photo courtesy of Eliana Rudee.

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Azerbaijan is a Jewish story written in three alphabets

From Red Village to Baku, Azerbaijan’s Jews kept their identity through Soviet rule, a changing language and a close bond with Israel.

Rabbi Michael Freund

Oct 22, 2026

The view outside the “Six Dome Synagogue” (“The Grand Synagogue,” designed by architect Hillel Ben Haim in 1888), one of three synagogues in Quba in Azerbaijan. Photo courtesy of Eliana Rudee.

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Azerbaijan is a Jewish story written in three alphabets

From Red Village to Baku, Azerbaijan’s Jews kept their identity through Soviet rule, a changing language and a close bond with Israel.

Rabbi Michael Freund

Oct 22, 2026

The view outside the “Six Dome Synagogue” (“The Grand Synagogue,” designed by architect Hillel Ben Haim in 1888), one of three synagogues in Quba in Azerbaijan. Photo courtesy of Eliana Rudee.

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Azerbaijan is a Jewish story written in three alphabets

From Red Village to Baku, Azerbaijan’s Jews kept their identity through Soviet rule, a changing language and a close bond with Israel.

Rabbi Michael Freund

Oct 22, 2026

The leader of Britain’s Green Party, Zack Polanski in 2022. Photo courtesy of the Bristol Green Party.

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UK leftist parties outdo each other’s anti-Israel policies

The Green Party voted to treat Zionism as racism as Labour hardens its stance, leaving British Jews wary of what comes next.

Canaan Lidor

Oct 15, 2026

The leader of Britain’s Green Party, Zack Polanski in 2022. Photo courtesy of the Bristol Green Party.

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UK leftist parties outdo each other’s anti-Israel policies

The Green Party voted to treat Zionism as racism as Labour hardens its stance, leaving British Jews wary of what comes next.

Canaan Lidor

Oct 15, 2026

The leader of Britain’s Green Party, Zack Polanski in 2022. Photo courtesy of the Bristol Green Party.

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UK leftist parties outdo each other’s anti-Israel policies

The Green Party voted to treat Zionism as racism as Labour hardens its stance, leaving British Jews wary of what comes next.

Canaan Lidor

Oct 15, 2026

View of the United Nations headquarters in New York City, Aug. 20, 2026. Photo courtesy of Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.

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Next U.N. leader must clean up anti-Semitism, world Jewish communities tell global body

Seven Jewish communities ask U.N. member states to weigh anti-Semitism when choosing the next secretary-general, who starts Jan. 1.

Mike Wagenheim

Oct 8, 2026

View of the United Nations headquarters in New York City, Aug. 20, 2026. Photo courtesy of Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.

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Next U.N. leader must clean up anti-Semitism, world Jewish communities tell global body

Seven Jewish communities ask U.N. member states to weigh anti-Semitism when choosing the next secretary-general, who starts Jan. 1.

Mike Wagenheim

Oct 8, 2026

View of the United Nations headquarters in New York City, Aug. 20, 2026. Photo courtesy of Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.

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Next U.N. leader must clean up anti-Semitism, world Jewish communities tell global body

Seven Jewish communities ask U.N. member states to weigh anti-Semitism when choosing the next secretary-general, who starts Jan. 1.

Mike Wagenheim

Oct 8, 2026

The abandoned Palace of Concerts and Sports in Vilnius, Lithuania, was built on a Jewish cemetery site in the 1970s. Photo courtesy of Brian Toward via Creative Commons.

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Lithuania tells JNS it’ll ‘respect’ Jewish burial site where commercial development was planned

Lithuania’s government says it is weighing a memorial at the former Vilnius Jewish cemetery site rather than allowing commercial development.

Mike Wagenheim

Oct 8, 2026

The abandoned Palace of Concerts and Sports in Vilnius, Lithuania, was built on a Jewish cemetery site in the 1970s. Photo courtesy of Brian Toward via Creative Commons.

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Lithuania tells JNS it’ll ‘respect’ Jewish burial site where commercial development was planned

Lithuania’s government says it is weighing a memorial at the former Vilnius Jewish cemetery site rather than allowing commercial development.

Mike Wagenheim

Oct 8, 2026

The abandoned Palace of Concerts and Sports in Vilnius, Lithuania, was built on a Jewish cemetery site in the 1970s. Photo courtesy of Brian Toward via Creative Commons.

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Lithuania tells JNS it’ll ‘respect’ Jewish burial site where commercial development was planned

Lithuania’s government says it is weighing a memorial at the former Vilnius Jewish cemetery site rather than allowing commercial development.

Mike Wagenheim

Oct 8, 2026