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Decades after the Holocaust, efforts to return Nazi-looted art are slow, steady

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It’s never just as simple as “finders keepers, losers weepers.” In June, the Philadelphia Museum of Art returned a 16th-century marksman’s shield in its possession...

In an era of war, Ukrainian refugee kids get a summer break thanks to...

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Sponsored By Stewart Ain Before Olga decided to flee Ukraine, she and her 16-year-old daughter sat in the basement of their home while Russian rockets fell...

Israeli tech leader launches new human health collaboration to solve urgent real-world problems

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Sponsored By Larry Luxner If thinking you’re sick can make you feel sick, is there a way to train your brain — and...
Falash Mura children help hang the washing outside their home in Gondar, Ethiopia, May 29, 2022.

How Israel’s Falash Mura immigration from Ethiopia became a painful 30-year saga with no...

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GONDAR, Ethiopia — It was love at first sight for Wesom Mellese when his wife stepped into his metal shop 17 years ago. “Her...

Ukrainians welcomed in Israel with kittens and paperwork

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JERUSALEM – A ballroom at Jerusalem’s Caesar Hotel on Jaffa Road was strikingly quiet, considering that it was Purim in the rest of the...

5 reflections from Buenos Aires on 30th anniversary of Israeli embassy bombing

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By Juan Melamed BUENOS AIRES — In the center of this city, promptly at 2:50 p.m. local time on March 17, a siren called out....

In appeal to Israel, Zelensky invokes the ‘final solution’

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In a searing 12-minute speech addressing the “people of Israel,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky likened the “final solution” the Nazis sought to impose on...

WATCH: Rabbi Julia Gris on her escape from Ukraine

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjBDmQ0vdew&t=3979s Rabbi Julia Gris, Reform rabbi of Shirat ha-yam in Odessa, Ukraine, speaks on March 6 about her escape to Poland. This is her prayer for...

For Putin, this war is personal

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“No one since Stalin has had power in Russia like Putin does,” said Stephen Blank, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s...

Philadelphia Jewish Exponent sold to Mid-Atlantic Media

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Mid-Atlantic Media, LLC, bought, effective Feb. 28, the 135-year-old Jewish Exponent from the Jewish Publishing Group, a subsidiary of the Jewish Federation of Greater...