Larry Luxner
By Larry Luxner
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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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News Lively Jewish festival in New York suburbs signals the comeback of in-person Jewish life
(JTA) — BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y. — David Harris grew up in a Russian-speaking home in New York and was raised to hate communism. In 1974, he was among a handful of Americans allowed to live and teach in the Soviet Union — an experience that left an indelible mark on his life. It set Harris…
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Fast Forward Itzhak Perlman, Rep. Jamie Raskin and a blind rabbi highlight the need for disability advocacy
When Israeli-American violinist Itzhak Perlman debuted at Carnegie Hall in 1963, he performed while seated — a consequence of the polio that left him unable to walk without leg braces or crutches since age 4. “I got a standing ovation, but The New York Times reviewer wasn’t sure if that was because of the way…
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