Porto’s Jewish community unveils memorial to 842 local victims of Portuguese Inquisition
The victims ranged in age from 10 to 110 and were identified using newly digitized records
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Paris mayor revokes Mahmoud Abbas’ top honor after he spreads Holocaust falsehoods
"With manifest will, you denied the genocide of the Jewish populations of Europe by the Nazi regime and its allies," Anne Hidalgo wrote to the Palestinian leader
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Buenos Aires to rename subway station after Jewish woman who famously stood up to sex traffickers
Raquel Liberman played a critical role in the dismantling of infamous Argentine sex-trafficking ring Zwi Migdal and in the move to outlaw prostitution in the country
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Violet Spevack, weekly chronicler of Cleveland Jewry for 50 years, dies at 107
Her society column for the Cleveland Jewish News, launched on March 5, 1965, made her one of the of the longest continuously published columnists in the country
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The co-creator of ‘Shtisel’ identifies as haredi Orthodox again
Yehonatan Indursky grew up in a haredi family but wrote the hit show as a secular Jew
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Spain’s language authority still uses an antisemitic definition of ‘Jew.’ These groups want it deleted.
In the Dictionary of the Spanish Language's entry for the word “Jew,” the fifth definition listed translates to a “greedy or usurious” person
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Nearly 1 in 3 Jewish college students has witnessed or experienced antisemitism on campus, survey finds
Fourteen percent of Jewish respondents said they had directly experienced antisemitism on campus
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Ohio school board member apologizes for giving Nazi salute at public meeting
'I’m not an expert at this, but isn’t that how some of this snowballed with Hitler and Nazism?' Zakkour asked as she apologized
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Newly discovered document lists more than 3,000 Jews the Catholic Church sheltered from Nazis
The discovery sheds new light on the Vatican’s actions during the Holocaust, but some historians have questions
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Jewish women’s group: Biden should have seriously considered a woman for ambassador to Israel
At least two prominent women had been mentioned as possible candidates to hold the high-profile post
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ADL CEO: Elon Musk is a ‘great innovator’ who engages with ‘users who are espousing antisemitism and hate’
'I would say that blaming the Jews or ADL for antisemitism also kind of evokes the age-old tropes that we work so hard to fight every single day,' Jonathan Greenblatt said
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