More Orban or a party with a neo-Nazi record? Hungarys Jews dont like their choices in this weeks election. – Forward
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Photo by Cnaan Liphshiz Hungarian Jews celebrate the opening of a new synagogue in Budapest on Aug.
East County Happenings, April 3 – The San Diego Union-Tribune
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City councils: Lemon Grove, 6 p.m.
Chinese media keeps referencing the Holocaust heres why – The Times of Israel
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (JTA) Two months ago, shortly after the Olympics began in Beijing, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) took a shot at China for its treatment of the Uighur minority group. At the #Olympics youll see a well-known tradition the torch relay which the Nazis used at the 1936 Olympics for propaganda purposes, the museum wrote on Twitter. Today, we witness how the Olympics can still be used to distract from atrocities, such as the persecution of the #Uyghurs
Ukrainian Jews Rebut Russian Defense Ministry Claim That Synagogue in Historic City of Uman Was Used as Weapons Storage Site – Algemeiner
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Ukraines Jewish community has angrily refuted Russian claims that a synagogue in the historic city of Uman site of the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, the revered founder of the Breslover Hasidim is being used as a weapons storage and transportation site by Ukrainian armed forces.
New synagogue guidelines call for weapons, phones on Shabbat following deadly attacks – Cleveland Jewish News
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In the wake of the recent wave of deadly terror attacks in Israel, The World Organization of Orthodox Communities and Synagogues on Wednesday called for congregations to take precautions against possible attack. Among its recommendations: Worshippers should arrive at services armed, and a cellular phone should be left on in the building during Shabbat services. In guidelines issued on Wednesday, the organization called on the gabbais; or beadles, who assist in running the synagogue, community leaders and worshippers to remain vigilant, and for those licensed to do so to carry weapons with them, including on Shabbat
Musical coming to South Jersey combines message of Passover with recovery from addiction – Burlington County Times
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Opioid victims face Sacklers in hearing A hearing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court has given survivors of opioid addiction and people who lost loved ones to the crisis the chance to confront members of the family behind OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma. (March 10) AP CINNAMINSON - When the pandemichit, millions of people were in isolation working from home, going to school from home, and worshipping from home.
Brith Shalom to honor Men’s Cub and Man of the Year – Jewish Herald-Voice
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Congregation Brith Shalom will host a Shabbat on Saturday, April 2, at 9:30 a.m., honoring its Mens Club and featuring the Mens Club Man of the Year celebration. This years Mens Club Man of the Year is Morris Narunsky, who was born in a southern Polish concentration camp shortly after it was liberated
A cup and a chair will tell a profound story at the Philly Jewish museum – WHYY
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The Jewish museum sought those objects to include them in its permanent exhibition. As a national museum, it is our job to raise consciousness and raise alarm when these types of violent events are happening to Jews, and to many communities around the country, said curator Josh Perelman. Perelman says the items tell more than just the story of the standoff.The teacup and chair that were involved in the hostage situation at the Texas synagogue in January are now at the Weitzman Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia
On vacation in Egypt, I found hope for peace in Israel J. – The Jewish News of Northern California
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On March 28, top diplomats from the United States, Egypt, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Israel gathered in Sde Boker, in the Negev Desert, for the first Israeli-Arab summit of its kind on Israeli soil. Though it did not produce any solutions to the regions most pressing challenges, including issues around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Irans quest for nuclear weapons, it was an important demonstration of the shifting attitudes in parts of the Arab world toward the Jewish state. Just a few years ago, this gathering would have been impossible to imagine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a press conference
My family was murdered in Austria during the Holocaust. Now theyre offering me citizenship. Should I accept? – Forward
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My mother and I discovered my grandmother Erikas faded birth certificate on a trip to Austria in 2019. It was in an administrative office building adjacent to the Stadttempel synagogue, the only synagogue built before 1938 that was not burned by the Nazis and only because it was too close to the Nazi headquarters in The Hotel Metropol, 150 meters away
