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Amsterdam To Refund Holocaust Survivors’ Back Taxes and Fines

Amsterdam will reimburse the families of Jewish Holocaust survivors for back taxes and fines they paid after failing to pay city taxes while they were in hiding or in concentration camps. The survivors or their families have a year to request the refund from the independently run Foundation for Individual Refunds Amsterdam, or ITA, the…

By JTA Sep 6, 2015 | < 1 min read
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Israeli Nuclear Whistleblower Says He Does Not Regret His Actions

Mordechai Vanunu, who served 18 years in prison for disclosing Israeli nuclear secrets, said in his first Israeli television interview that he does not regret his actions. He also called on the state to allow him to leave the country permanently. In an interview broadcast Friday night on Israel Channel 2, which was approved by…

By JTA Sep 6, 2015 | < 1 min read
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Holocaust Victims’ Remains Buried After Discovery at French Medical School

The remains of Holocaust victims that were preserved as anatomy specimens in a French medical school were buried. Several hundred people attended the burial ceremony Sunday at the Cronenbourg Jewish cemetery in Strasbourg in eastern France. The remains, preserved in several glass containers, were discovered on July 9 at the University of Strasbourg’s Institute of…

By JTA Sep 6, 2015 | < 1 min read
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Italy’s Jewish Leadership Calls for Aid for Refugees

Italy’s Jewish leadership called for Sunday’s European Day of Jewish Culture to be dedicated to battling indifference and urged aid and welcome for refugees. This year marked the 16th edition of the European Day of Jewish Culture, a continent-wide Jewish culture and education festival that encompasses hundreds of events in more than 30 countries. Renzo…

By JTA Sep 6, 2015 | 2 min read
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Mother of Baby Killed in West Bank Firebombing Suffers Deteriorating Condition

The mother of the baby killed in a firebomb attack on his West Bank home has deteriorated and her life is in danger. Reham Dawabsheh, 27, suffered burns to some 90 percent of her body in the July 31 attack in the West Bank village of Duma. Her son, Ali, 18 months old, was killed…

By JTA Sep 6, 2015 | < 1 min read
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Netanyahu: Israel ‘Too Small’ To Absorb Syrian Refugees

Israel is “not indifferent to the human tragedy” of refugees from Syria and Africa, Benjamin Netanyahu said, but it is too small to absorb mass numbers of them. “We have already devotedly cared for approximately 1,000 wounded people from the fighting in Syria and we have helped them to rehabilitate their lives,” the Israeli prime…

By JTA Sep 6, 2015 | < 1 min read
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Collection of Sephardic Torah Scrolls Finds Home at San Diego State U.

A collection of Torah scrolls and maps was donated to San Diego State University by a private donor. The collection includes more than 70 Torah scrolls and Torah fragments that are hundreds of years old, from around the world – including Spain, the Netherlands, Turkey and Morocco, according to the university. Donor Howard Singer, who…

By JTA Sep 6, 2015 | < 1 min read
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E.U. Worker Says Drunken Colleague Called Her ‘Dirty Jew’

The European Jewish Congress called for the suspension of a Maltese European Union employee who is accused of shouting anti-Semitic hate speech while under the influence of alcohol. Stefan Grech, 45, assaulted another E.U. worker in July at a café at around midnight and told her that “Hitler should have killed all the Jews” and…

By JTA Sep 6, 2015 | < 1 min read

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Amsterdam To Refund Holocaust Survivors’ Back Taxes and Fines

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Mother of Baby Killed in West Bank Firebombing Suffers Deteriorating Condition

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Collection of Sephardic Torah Scrolls Finds Home at San Diego State U.

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