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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 424

Czech Federation of Jewish Communities

A demonstrator dressed in a costume of prisoner holds a banner reading the word 'Untermensch' (sub-human) referring to a Nazi term attends the protest against COVID-19 government measures on January 10, 2021, in the old Town Square in Prague. (Michal Cizek / AFP)
January 11, 2021, 11:08 pm
Czech churches pan ‘tasteless’ use of yellow Star of David at anti-vax protest
Responding to rally in opposition of inoculations and in support of Trump, Christian faith leaders say fringe activists abused symbol of Jewish persecution by Nazis
By AFP
A Bulgarian woman attends a commemoration ceremony at the Sofia Synagogue, one of the largest and most ornate of its kind in the Balkans, March 10, 2013. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images/ via JTA)
September 25, 2020, 6:09 am
Coronavirus crisis tests resilience of Europe’s dwindling Jewish communities
After years of building the infrastructure to be self-reliant, many smaller Jewish centers again require outside support — but are confident they have the tools to bounce back
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Tourists stand or walk across the pavement of the pedestrian zone at Wenceslas Square in Prague on March 15, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Michal CIZEK)
March 25, 2018, 9:46 am
Prague pedestrians tread unaware on Jewish gravestones
Communist-built pavement in Czech capital used slabs with Hebrew inscriptions taken from derelict cemetery; despite many complaints by Jewish community, issue was never resolved
By Jan MARCHAL
File: Czech President Milos Zeman, right, and his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin put stones on the memorial during a remembrance ceremony for the victims at the former Nazi concentration camp of Terezin, October 22, 2015. (AFP/Michal Cizek)
May 17, 2016, 4:41 am
Czech Jews call Terezin memorial addresses nationalist, xenophobic
Community groups says speeches at Sunday commemoration in former concentration camp demonized foreigners, refugees
By JTA
Illustrative: The Old New synagogue in Prague, Czech Republic. (CC-BY-SA 3.0 Wikimedia/Øyvind Holmstad)
April 5, 2016, 11:20 pm
Czechs to up security of ‘threatened’ Jewish institutions
New official position created to handle coordination between the community and the government
By AFP
Russian President Vladimir Putin at his annual holiday news conference in Moscow, Russia, on December 18, 2014 (photo credit: AP/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)
December 20, 2014, 10:17 pm
Czech Jewish group opposes Putin invite to Holocaust event
Federation calls Russian president’s attendance at an Auschwitz liberation memorial ‘inappropriate’
By AFP
Jewish candidate Jan Fischer is favored to advance to the second round of the presidential elections in the Czech Republic. (Courtesy of the Jan Fischer campaign via JTA)
January 10, 2013, 9:41 am
Czech ‘Joe Lieberman’ could be Europe’s first Jewish president
The son of an Auschwitz survivor, Jan Fischer compensates for his lack of charisma simply by being ‘ordinary’
By Dinah Spritzer
The restored synagogue in Jicin, Czech Republic, will serve as one of 10 sites in a planned network of new Jewish museums. (Ruth Ellen Gruber/JTA)
December 13, 2012, 12:58 pm
Czech Jewish museum will literally be ‘scattered around the country’
Nationwide tribute to Jewish history will be spread across former synagogues in 10 cities
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
Polish lawmakers have not enacted any form of private restitution or compensation for the estimated $30.5 billion worth of property confiscated by the Nazis, then the communists. (Alik Keplicz/AP)
December 6, 2012, 3:07 am
Poland seen as worst offender on Shoah restitution
Conference shows some progress, mostly evasion by governments across Central and Eastern Europe
By Dinah Spritzer
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