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A pencil said to have belonged to Adolf Hitler on sale at an auction house in Belfast, the United Kingdom, pictured ahead of its auctioning scheduled for June 6, 2023. (Bloomfield Auctions)
June 7, 2023, 9:04 am
Pencil said to have been Hitler’s sells for $6,700 — a 10th of pre-auction estimate
Initialed pencil is sold in Belfast along with other items linked to Nazi dictator; all are bought by online bidders
By ToI Staff and Canaan Lidor
A pencil said to have belonged to Adolf Hitler on sale at an auction house in Belfast, the United Kingdom, pictured ahead of its auctioning scheduled for June 6, 2023. (Bloomfield Auctions)
June 1, 2023, 8:33 pm
Jewish group protests UK auction of pencil said to have been Hitler’s
AH-initialed pencil is one of 10 items connected to the Nazi dictator going on the block in Belfast
By Canaan Lidor
US President Joe Biden is greeted by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, left, and US Ambassador to the United Kingdom Jane Hartley, center, he steps off Air Force One at Belfast International Airport in Belfast, Northern Ireland, April 11, 2023. Biden is visiting the United Kingdom and Ireland in part to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. At right is United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland Joe Kennedy III. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
April 12, 2023, 9:33 am
Biden arrives in Northern Ireland to help mark decades of relative peace
US president says trip priority is to ‘keep the peace’; will deliver congratulations, encourage work on universally beneficial economic policies; will visit ancestral hometowns
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Colleen Long and Jill Lawless
The City Hall of Belfast (Giorgio Galeotti/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
June 5, 2021, 12:31 am
Belfast City Council calls for expelling Israeli ambassadors from UK and Ireland
In Dublin, pro-Palestinian students and activists stage sit-in protest in front of Foreign Ministry, blocking entrance for hours, in wake of Gaza war
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Fireworks thrown by rioters explode on police vehicles in Belfast, April 8, 2021. (Paul Faith/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
April 17, 2021, 10:55 am
As in 1970s, Northern Ireland’s Jews look to weather violence in Belfast
Feuding protesters are split into British loyalists and those who want a united Ireland; decades back, unrest eventually reached the Jewish community
By Olivia Fletcher
Nationalist youths gesture toward a police line blocking a road near the Peace Wall in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, April 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
April 10, 2021, 4:04 am
Rioters battle police in Belfast as Brexit stokes tensions in Northern Ireland
Law enforcement uses water cannons to disperse protesters; pro-Ireland demonstrators and UK supporters square off, recalling past sectarian conflict
By Joe STENSON
Jewish graves at the Belfast City Cemetery (JTA via Eric Jones/ Geograph.ie, Creative Commons)
August 27, 2016, 7:19 pm
13 Jewish graves vandalized in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Eight youths reportedly smash tombstones with hammers, blocks as crowd looks on, in suspected hate crime
By JTA
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams (L) and Sinn Fein politician and Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister, Martin Mcguinness (2R) speak during a press conference outside Stormont Castle in Belfast, Northern Ireland on June 24, 2016, after the United Kingdom's June 23 referendum in which voters chose to leave the European Union. (AFP Photo/Paul Faith)
June 25, 2016, 9:21 pm
In divided Belfast, Brexit vote sows fresh uncertainty
Northern Ireland voted to remain in EU, and rifts exposed by the result could prompt a surge in calls for a united Ireland, and fears of new violence too
By Douglas DALBY
John Henry and Frances Patterson’s new gravesite in Israel. The inscription reads, 'As I speak of him, I will remember him.' (Hillel Kuttler/JTA)
June 10, 2016, 6:01 pm
Belfast memorial to ‘godfather of Israeli army’ vandalized
Police treat attack on mural honoring Christian Zionist John Henry Patterson as a hate crime; Netanyahu’s brother Yonatan was named for him
By JTA
Plaque on a building in Belfast marking the spot where Chaim Herzog, a president of Israel, was born. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons CC A 3.0/Keresaspa)
August 13, 2014, 12:12 am
Belfast plaque marking Herzog’s birthplace removed
Repeated vandalism prompts authorities to take down marker on building where Israeli president was born
By JTA
Elliot, Sammy and Alan Matthews who feature in True North: The Last Minyan – A Belfast Jewish Story on BBC One Northern Ireland (courtesy of BBC Northern Ireland)
March 12, 2014, 2:16 pm
Belfast’s last Jews shown on the Beeb
Filmmaker Aaron Black documents the twilight years of his own Jewish community in Northern Ireland
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Riot police watch flames of Molotov cocktails thrown by Protestant hardliners in North Belfast, Northern Ireland, early Saturday. (photo credit: AP/Peter Morrison)
July 14, 2013, 4:17 am
Dozens wounded in Belfast clashes between Protestants, police
Police try to block part of anti-Catholic parade route, setting off hours of street battles
Ireland's Jewish community is confronting troubling demographic trends, but its demise has been predicted before. (Vimeo screenshot)
March 17, 2013, 1:18 am
Irish Jews face uncertain future (as usual)
A community that produced a beloved Israeli president confronts dwindling numbers, but also a rich and largely peaceful history
By Renee Ghert-Zand
December 31, 2012, 1:14 am
Bomb found under Belfast policeman’s car
Police believe dissident group placed explosive device intending to kill the officer
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