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US President Donald Trump, center, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd left), his wife Akie Abe (right), US First Lady Melania Trump (Left) and Robert Kraft (foreground), sit down for dinner at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort on February 10, 2017. (AFP / NICHOLAS KAMM)
Patriots owner Kraft joins NFL chorus protesting Trump tirade
By TOI staff and Agencies
Dozens of players kneel during anthem in London game, as day of expected demonstrations against president kicks off
Sara Zielinski, with her mother Elizabeth, center, and a volunteer at a pre-Shabbat program at the Jewish Community Center of Krakow. Sara is part of the inaugural class of Frajda, the first pluralistic Jewish nursery and preschool in Krakow since World War II. (Courtesy of Jewish Community Center of Krakow/via JTA)
Krakow JCC’s new preschool signals hope for a community’s rebirth
By Penny Schwartz
Jean-Luc Melenchon during a protest over the government's labour reforms in Paris on September 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt)
French leftist leader in hot water over ‘shameful’ Nazi comparison
By Pascale Juilliard
Argentina's public prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, gives a news conference in Buenos Aires, May 20, 2009. (JUAN MABROMATA/AFP/Getty Images)
Argentina experts confirm Nisman was murdered, name possible suspect
By JTA and TOI staff
Imam Sayed al-Ghitawi speaking at the al-Andalous Islamic Center in Montreal in 2014 (Screen capture: YouTube)
February 19, 2017, 8:07 pm
Montreal imam probed for viral call to ‘destroy accursed Jews’
Speech, given in 2014, appears online three weeks after Quebec mosque attack when Jews offered support to Muslims
By JTA and TOI staff
Igal Hecht shooting his 2013 film 'A Universal Language' in Jerusalem. (Courtesy)
February 19, 2017, 6:02 pm
Israeli-Canadian filmmaker gives Jewish state’s minorities a major role
Igal Hecht's documentary 'My Home' explores the Holy Land’s multi-layered, non-Jewish reality
By Robert Sarner
President Reuven Rivlin and Conference of Presidents of Major American Organizations CEO Malcolm Hoenlein, February 19, 2017 (Mark Neiman / GPO)
February 19, 2017, 2:03 pm
Rivlin says ‘polarization’ in the US is concerning
Contradicting boss, US defense secretary says media isn’t the enemy; Shin Bet arrests Palestinian teens for shooting attacks
By Elie Leshem
US Vice President Mike Pence, second from left, stands behind the gate with the infamous writing "Labor makes free" during a visit to the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau near Munich, southern Germany, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
February 19, 2017, 2:02 pm
Amid anti-Semitism row, Pence tours Nazi concentration camp
US vice president's visit to Dachau follows criticism over administration's omission of Jews from Holocaust Remembrance Day statement
By AP and TOI staff
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch at a news conference on Capitol Hill, February 1, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/via JTA)
February 19, 2017, 4:23 am
In reviewing ‘Hobby Lobby’ opinion, Jews see reasons to diverge over Neil Gorsuch
Like some partisan issues before it, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act has had a polarizing effect on traditionally liberal or conservative denominations
By Ron Kampeas
People watch ceremonies marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, January 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)
February 19, 2017, 2:20 am
Do Holocaust memories eclipse WWI tragedy for Warsaw’s Jews?
In his newest book, historian Robert Blobaum examines the city's tumultuous history of occupation and the effects it had on Jewish-Christian relations during trying times
By JP O’ Malley
Prisoners at forced labor building the Dove-Elbe canal in Germany, 1941-42. The kapos wear white and black armbands. (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of KZ-Gedenkstatte Neuengamme)
February 18, 2017, 11:13 pm
Fury over planned meat factory on site of Nazi labor camp
Descendants of former landowners oppose plans by one Austria's biggest pork producers to develop location, say they weren't compensated
By TOI staff
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis addresses London's anti- anti-Semitism rally Sunday, August 31, 2014. (courtesy Adam Arnold)
February 18, 2017, 9:51 pm
Act on rising anti-Semitism, Jewish students tell UK universities
Spate of recent incidents include appearance on campuses of swastikas, flyers praising Holocaust denial
By TOI staff
Leopold David, first mayor of Anchorage, Alaska. (Courtesy AJM)
February 18, 2017, 7:01 pm
For the past 150 years, Alaskan Jews have blazed trails in the last frontier
With a spotlight on the dramatic rescue of 40,000 Yemenite Jews by Alaska Airlines, the Alaska Jewish museum marks the anniversary of 'Seward’s Folly'
By Rich Tenorio
Protesters wearing white sheets shout at Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as he arrives for his confirmation hearing to be the US attorney general on January 10, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
February 18, 2017, 4:42 pm
Alt-right website tries to weed out Jews from drug reform
A neo-Nazi 'news' outlet -- the US's top hate site -- claims that 'kikes' are behind attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his ardent anti-drug policies
By Madison Margolin
Dutch far-right politician and leader of the Freedom Party Geert Wilders (C) addresses journalists as he officially launches his parliamentary election campaign in Spijkenisse on February 18, 2017. (AFP/John Thys)
February 18, 2017, 3:26 pm
Dutch anti-Islamist presidential candidate calls Moroccan migrants ‘scum’
At campaign launch, populist Geert Wilders says immigrants 'make the streets unsafe,' states his intention to 'make the Netherlands ours again'
By AFP
At Camp Ramah of the Rockies, campers live in tent cabins with no electricity or running water. (Camp Ramah of the Rockies)
February 18, 2017, 7:33 am
These Jewish summer camps are proud to be basic
While many seek to provide kids with bigger and better amenities, some programs are eschewing luxury -- with great results
By Ben Harris
New Caledonia (via JTA)
February 18, 2017, 6:54 am
New Chabad house opens in Pacific archipelago of New Caedonia
With a population of 250,000, the French territory now has a rabbi to serve the 250 Jews living there
By JTA
Adolf Hitler's personal traveling telephone is displayed at Alexander Historical Auctions in Chesapeake City, Md., February 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
February 18, 2017, 5:57 am
Maryland auction house selling Hitler’s phone
Bids on traveling telephone owned by Nazi leader start at $100,000, but item is estimated to go for two or three times that
By AP
Violinist Yevgeny Kutik performs at Temple Emanuel in Newton, Massachusetts, on December 16, 2016 (Leah Kleiman)
February 18, 2017, 4:37 am
‘Refugee’ violinist blends Russian-Jewish roots with modern tones
Yevgeny Kutik's family fled the USSR's institutionalized anti-Semitism with a suitcase of sheet music when he was 5. Now he tours the free world with a century-old violin
By Matt Lebovic
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