Larry Luxner
By Larry Luxner
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News Russia’s invasion of Ukraine inadvertently sparks a Jewish renaissance — in Armenia
Jews from both Ukraine and Russia made their way to Yerevan, Armenia’s biggest city. Many are staying
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Culture French crooner Charles Aznavour loved Jews. A new museum in Armenia will tell that story.
Delayed by war in Nagorno-Karabakh and other obstacles, the Aznavour museum will document how his family saved Jews in Paris during WWII
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Fast Forward For one Jewish family, education about family cancer history pays dividends
Because they are in a heightened risk category, Jews have extra reasons to undergo genetic testing and research their family history
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Fast Forward Albania has long been a pro-Israel country. Will the Hamas war change that?
Albania is known as the only European country that had more Jewish residents after World War II than before it
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News A Serbian city’s Jewish community barely survived the Holocaust. Now it might die out.
Novi Sad, once a center of Jewish life in prewar Yugoslavia, is struggling to revive its Jewish community in a country threatened by far-right nationalism and beset by economic turmoil
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News Armenia has had few Jews and a poor relationship with Israel. That could be changing.
No more than 200 Armenians are Jewish. At least twice that number Russian Jews flooded into Yerevan this summer
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Fast Forward Unique Canadian Jewish institution is back in force as hundreds gather at Niagara Falls
The Limmud FSU Canada festival attracted more than 350 participants
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Fast Forward The Jews of Key West: Making a home again in Margaritaville
KEY WEST, Fla. (JTA) — On any given afternoon, hundreds of visitors here patiently line up for selfies next to a brightly painted, 12-foot-high concrete buoy marking the southernmost point in the continental United States. Just behind this landmark, a less obvious monument overlooks the Atlantic Ocean for a few days a year: a menorah…
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Theater Hidden in this picture, the murder of 1.1 million Jews
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News The great tent conspiracy theory: Are ‘outside agitators’ supplying protesters’ tents?
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Opinion Edward Said tried to erase Jews. So do the pro-Palestinian Columbia protesters citing his legacy
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Opinion Yes, antisemitism is rising. But pro-Palestinian protests aren’t the real threat to our campuses
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Opinion USC taught its pro-Palestinian valedictorian to ask good questions — then axed commencement because it was afraid of them
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Fast Forward Hundreds of students arrested from Texas to California as college Israel protests continue
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Fast Forward USC cancels graduation amid tumult over Israel and Gaza
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News Columbia’s campus is rocked by protests. The surrounding neighborhood? Not so much