Shira Li Bartov
By Shira Li Bartov
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Fast Forward Jewish and Israeli volunteers join in relief effort as floods pound Central Europe
“This is a real kiddush Hashem,” said Poland’s chief rabbi
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Fast Forward Jewish songwriter Benj Pasek joins elite EGOT ranks after ‘Only Murders’ Emmy
Pasek and his songwriting partner Justin Paul were the 20th and 21st winners of the show business crown
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Culture He escaped the Nazis and created Britain’s first memorial to their victims. Now this artist is getting a second look.
A retrospective of the work of Fred Kormis comes as British lawmakers seek to advance a long-planned national Holocaust memorial
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News At 28, Ireland’s new chief rabbi is leading an aging population in a time of turmoil
“Since Oct. 7, so much has changed,” Rabbi Yoni Wieder says about Jewish life in Ireland, a country that is staunchly pro-Palestinian
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News Before this famous Polish bakery ‘opened’ in 1944, it belonged to a Jewish family killed by the Nazis
The third-generation owners of Kuźmiuk Bakery say they only learned of the site’s pre-war history in the past decade
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Fast Forward At Camp Ramah in Ukraine, sports and Jewish traditions are an escape from war
This year, fewer Ukrainian men came to camp, to avoid forced conscription. A teen from Chicago volunteered instead
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News After UK riots against Muslims and refugees, British Jews grapple with extremism that targeted them, too
British Jews are also thinking about whether and how to reestablish ties with Muslim communities that frayed after Oct. 7
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Fast Forward A popular Belgian author wrote he wanted to ‘ram a sharp knife’ through every Jew he meets. He says it was satire.
“Publicly expressing his desire to stab the throat of any Jew he comes across is psychopathic,” said the head of the European Jewish Association
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