David Ian Klein covers breaking news and international Jewish communities for the Forward. You can reach him at [email protected] and on Twitter @davidianklein.
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By David Ian Klein
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Culture Coming to Washington D.C., a new Jewish museum highlighting activism and heritage
For more than 60 years, the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington has been recording the Jewish story of the nation’s capital. Next year, that story will be available for all to peruse in the new Capital Jewish Museum — a Washington D.C. first. From New York to Philadelphia, Baltimore and New Orleans, Jewish museums…
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News Close to crumbling, the tomb of an ancient prophet is saved in Kurdish Iraq
For nearly 30 centuries the tomb of the prophet Nahum was an important pilgrimage site for Jews in what is today Kurdish Iraq. But after the founding of Israel in 1948, all its Jewish caretakers began leaving the region, and in more recent years, the Islamic State embarked on its campaign to destroy holy sites…
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Fast Forward Israeli astronaut Eytan Stibbe to take ancient Jewish coin into space
Eytan Stibbe, the former Israeli Air Force pilot who is self-funding a trip into space aboard SpaceX’s Axiom Mission 1 in January, has chosen a particularly apt piece of Jewish heritage to accompany him: a coin from the era of the Bar Kochba revolt, bearing the name of its leader, Shimon Bar Kochba. Bar Kochba…
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News Why only Yiddish and Ladino? Oxford wants to teach you Judeo-Tat and Karaim
When Jews long ago ordered their coffee in Baghdad, gossiped in Derbent or traded recipes in Kurdistan, they did so in Judeo-Arabic, Juhuri and Neo-Aramaic— languages that are all but lost, and with them centuries of unique Jewish history, culture and tradition. Beginning this fall, Oxford University will be offering online classes in nearly a…
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News Turkish Jewish media outlets hit with cyberattacks amid global antisemitism surge
The cyberattacks began in May following the outbreak of fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza strip this spring. Months after the ceasefire, they are still targeting Avlaremoz, an alternative Turkish Jewish web magazine. The media outlet has been sustaining consistent “denial-of-service” or “ddos” attacks, in which a website is bombarded with thousands if…
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Culture Hitler wanted his 1936 Olympics to wow the world. The Forward highlighted protest games instead.
The modern Olympic games, first held in Athens in the summer of 1896, predate the Forward’s founding by less than one year. In the 52 winter and summer games to take place since, the Jewish stories have ranged from tales of perseverance and success, as in the victories of Jewish athletes like Mark Spitz and…
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News In Iraqi Kurdistan, a one-man museum celebrates the region’s Jewish history and ethnic diversity
For more than 27 centuries, Jews lived in the region around Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s semi-independent Kurdish Regional Government. Once home to a Jewish community numbering in the tens of thousands, the Kurdistan region and wider area of Northern Iraq is also, many believe, the final resting place of the prophets Nahum and Jonah…
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Fast Forward Presidential candidate with Jewish parent could be disqualified if a new law passes in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Lawmakers introduced a bill to the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s National Assembly which, if passed, would sideline popular candidate Moise Katumbi. It seems that Katumbi’s problem is his Sephardic-Jewish father. More specifically, the bill aims to ban anyone without two Congolese parents from running for the presidency. Katumbi is the only current major candidate…
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