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A person inspects the damage from a fire set at the Torat Chaim Yeshiva on the eve of Passover, April 19, 2019 (Courtesy/Torat Chaim Yeshiva)

Russia’s largest yeshiva attacked with arson and swastikas ahead of Passover

By AP and ToI Staff

No one reported injured in fire at Torat Chaim in eastern Moscow, hours before 60 people gathered for traditional seder meal

Evgeny Velikhov speaks at Limmud FSU Moscow on April 12, 2019. (Courtesy Limmud FSU)

The non-Jewish physicist who lobbied Gorbachev to open the first Soviet yeshiva

By JTA

Members of the Polish neo-Nazi Pride and Modernity group celebrating Adolf Hitler's birthday in an undated video. (Screen capture: TVN24)

WJC urges European lawmakers to ban neo-Nazi events marking Hitler birthday

World Jewish Congress says picnics and hiking trips among events planned across the continent to mark 130 years since birth of Nazi leader

This Jan. 3, 2019 photo shows snow covered Swastika Acres in Englewood, Colorado. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via AP)

What's in a name?Colorado city votes to rename ‘Swastika Acres’ neighborhood

By ToI Staff and AP

A screenshot of an image posted to Instagram and then deleted by Max Meyer that appears to show Crystal Palace goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey (back left) making a Nazi salute. (Screenshot/Instagram)

UK soccer player to be educated about Nazis after ‘ignorant’ Hitler salute

By AFP

Jason Greenblatt attends the Champions of Jewish Values International Awards gala at Carnegie Hall in New York, March 28, 2019. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Trump official: Unhelpful to use ‘two-state solution’ terminology in peace talks

Jason Greenblatt said to warn both Israelis and Palestinians against rejecting ‘deal of the century’

Screencapture from a video purporting to show a plan to to give the Palestinian part of the Sinai for a future state. US envoy Jason Greenblatt denies this is part of the Trump peace plan, Aprli 19, 2019. (Screencapture/Twitter)

US envoy denies reports peace plan includes giving Palestinians part of Sinai

An image from a tweet from the UK Labour Party wishing Jews a happy Passover featuring a loaf of bread, April 19, 2019 (twitter)

Half-baked: UK Labour ridiculed for Passover bread greeting

Corbyn’s party, deeply embroiled in anti-Semitism scandal, wishes Jews a happy Passover in tweet, swiftly withdrawn, featuring a loaf of bread

US President Donald Trump arrives to speak during the Republican Jewish Coalition 2019 Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 6, 2019. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Trump, Ivanka send out Passover greetings

Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota listens as lawmakers speak about the Voting Rights Enhancement Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on February 26, 2019. (Joshua Roberts/Getty Images/AFP)

Embattled Ilhan Omar tweets ‘happy Passover’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Elissa Strauss, left, and Gabrielle Birkner are the authors of the 'Kveller Haggadah.' (Collage by Emily Burack/JTA)

A family haggadah imagines a ‘complicated, engaging and fleshy’ Passover

By Emily Burack

A puppet of Max the Matzah at a park in Amsterdam (Courtesy of JCK/via JTA)

Bread of affection

Cartoon matzah character a flat-out success in Holland

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Tapuah Junction in the West Bank on January 7, 2019. (Israel Police)

Border Police say they thwarted stabbing attack in West Bank

Palestinian attempts to attack officer at Tapuah Junction south of Nablus, is shot and reportedly critically injured; no Israelis hurt

A Hamas-appointed government employee in Gaza signs a document to receive 50 percent of her long-overdue salary from funds donated by Qatar, while others wait in the queue, at the main Gaza Post Office, in Gaza City, December 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Hamas calls on UN to speed up delivery of Qatari cash aid

By AFP

In this Dec. 15, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump sits with Attorney General Jeff Sessions during the FBI National Academy graduation ceremony in Quantico, Va.(AP/Evan Vucci)

Mueller: Trump took Sessions resignation letter with him to Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

President kept AG’s missive with him throughout his first trip abroad, worrying officials he would use it against the Justice Department, report says

US Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-NY, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, speaks during a news conference, Thursday, April 18, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Democrats subpoena full Mueller report amid calls for impeachment

By LISA MASCARO

US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive at Andrews Air Force Base April 18, 2019 in Maryland prior to boarding Air Force One for departure to Florida where they will spend the Easter weekend. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP)

Trump laces into ex-advisers who spoke with Mueller

Biblical women represent royalty and redemption, passion and compassion — themes that are surely welcome at any seder

The ultimate Passover dessert is made with Peeps

How my Easter candy envy led to joining the sweet, sticky ’hot mess’ of Peeps S’mores Skillet with the bread of affliction

Michal Mamit Vorka's 'Waiting for Avera Mengistu, 2018' (Courtesy Avraham Hay)

With award-winning work, Israeli painter shows life is anything but colorblind

By Jessica Steinberg

Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky holds his ballot at a polling station during Ukraine's presidential election in Kiev on March 31, 2019. (Genya Savilov/AFP)

Ukraine votes on Sunday

Zelensky: Ukrainian clown or political wonder boy?

By Dmytro Gorshkov and Olga SHYLENKO

The Jewish TV star has capitalized on citizens’ despair over mainstream politics, war with Kremlin-backed rebels, poverty and corruption

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, left, and Ukrainian presidential candidate and popular comedian Volodymyr Zelensky, right, argue their debates at the Olympic stadium in Kiev, Ukraine, April 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Rivals in Ukraine’s presidential runoff hold bitter debate at sports stadium

By YURAS KARMANAU

Laura Mandel said she had been to Israel about 10 times without any airport incidents of the kind she experienced this week. (Courtesy of Abraham Initiatives/J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA)

Activist detained at Ben Gurion: Once I said the word ‘Arab,’ everything changed

By Gabe Stutman

Jewish American rights activist details extensive questioning, detention at airport while leaving Israel, something critics charge is increasing for pro-Palestinian supporters

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President Reuven Rivlin celebrates the Passover holiday with IDF lone soldiers, April 19, 2019. (Courtesy)

Lone soldiers from 35 countries mark Passover with Rivlin, chief of staff

A Narcan nasal device which delivers naloxone lies on a counter as a health educator gives instructions on how to administer it in Brooklyn, New York, July 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Teva gets FDA approval for 1st generic nasal spray of overdose reversal drug

By LINDA A. JOHNSON

Campus at Arkansas Tech (CC-BY SA Zscout370/Wikimedia Commons)

Arkansas university accused of honoring Holocaust denier with new scholarship

By Josefin Dolsten

Jewish American soldiers celebrating Passover in Seoul, Korea, 1952. (American Jewish Historical Society)

Rare Korean War Haggadah from 1952 finds new home in Israel

By Cnaan Liphshiz

People walk past a banner supporting proposed amendments to the Egyptian constitution with a picture of Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in Cairo, Egypt, on April 16, 2019. (AP/Amr Nabil)

Egyptians vote on referendum allowing extension of Sissi’s rule to 2030

By AP

Israel Kostan (Channel 13)

Israeli living in LA allegedly murdered by fellow Israeli who owed him money

File: Syrian soldiers stand guard at their military post on the entrance of the central Syrian town of Rastan, Homs province, Syria, Tuesday, July 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Monitor: Islamic State hits Syria army with deadliest attacks since ‘caliphate’

By AFP

Actor James Burke-Dunsmore portrays the Christian savior in 'The Passion of Jesus,' an annual performance in Trafalgar Square, in 2018 (YouTube screenshot)

Passion projectThousands attend annual crucifixion reenactment in London

Family photo made available Friday, April 19, 2019, issued by Northern Ireland Police, shows journalist Lyra McKee, who was shot and killed when guns were fired during clashes with police Thursday night April 18, 2019, in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. (Family photo/PSNI via AP)

Journalist shot dead in Northern Ireland ‘terrorist incident’

Former vice president Joe Biden talks with officials after speaking at a rally in support of striking Stop & Shop workers in Boston, Thursday, April 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Biden expected to launch presidential campaign next week

By Julie Pace, Thomas Beaumont and MEG KINNARD

US Rep. Bella Abzug (D-N.Y.) in 1971, wearing one of her trademark hats. (AP Photo)

Harvey Fierstein to play Jewish feminist icon Bella Abzug Off Broadway

By Curt Schleier

Major General Francis Vib-Sanziri of Ghana, Head of the UNDOF peacekeeping force in the Golan Heights, who died April 19, 2019 (Courtesy/UN)

Head of UN peacekeepers in Golan Heights dies

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