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A woman puts a flower during a protest against the desecration of the Holocaust memorial in Thessaloniki on July 4, 2018. (AFP/Sakis Mitrolidis)
July 11, 2018, 7:18 pm
Holocaust memorial vandalized on Greek university campus
Monument to Thessaloniki cemetery destroyed by Nazis splattered with blue paint and daubed with nationalist symbol
By AFP and JTA
Kostas Papadopoulos was one of the few survivors of the 1944 British attack on the ship Tanais carrying Crete’s Jews. (Roger Rapoport/JTA)
June 25, 2018, 7:32 am
Last survivor of Crete’s Jewish community watches its rebirth with gratitude
His Christian surname saved Kostas Papadopoulos from the Nazis; now, a rededicated interfaith synagogue commemorates the island’s Holocaust victims
By Roger Rapoport
A Jewish headstone found vandalized in the Jewish cemetery in Athens Greece on May 5, 2018 (Courtesy/KIS)
May 5, 2018, 4:02 pm
Jewish headstones smashed in Athens cemetery
Greek police investigating latest in a series of vandalizations of Jewish cemeteries and Holocaust memorials
By AFP
Illustrative photo of a memorial to the Holocaust at the Jewish cemetery in Thessaloniki, Greece (photo credit: Arie Darzi/Wikimedia Commons/File)
January 25, 2018, 6:58 pm
Greek Jews condemn neo-Nazi vandalism of Thessaloniki Holocaust memorial
Logo of far-right Golden Dawn party found spray-painted at site, along with flyers calling city’s mayor a ‘slave of the Jews’
By JTA
A memorial in Kavala, Greece, that commemorates Greek Jews who died in World War II. (Yiddish News/Twitter via JTA)
April 11, 2017, 10:13 am
Holocaust memorials in Greece vandalized
Marble plague in Kavala smashed with hammers, while monument in Arta defaced with graffiti
By JTA
A screenshot from the destruction in March 2017 at a Jewish cemetery in Waldwisse, France, where 40 of 50 headstone were found smashed or toppled. (Twitter via JTA)
March 31, 2017, 6:45 pm
40 headstones at French Jewish cemetery found smashed, toppled
Destruction at gravesite, no longer in use, discovered by passer-by; police say no indication act was a hate crime
By JTA and TOI staff
Greek Jewish community head David Saltiel (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)
March 18, 2017, 9:22 pm
Greek Jewish community hails citizenship decision
Descendants of Holocaust survivors eligible to regain nationality their relatives lost fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe
By AFP
Devin Naar says Ladino connects Jews with Latinos and Muslims, two communities he considers marginalized in Trump’s America. (Meryl Schenker Photography/The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at Washington University/via JTA)
March 18, 2017, 11:53 am
Sephardi studies scholar sees preserving Ladino as ‘act of resistance’ against Trump
The dwindling language’s roots in Spanish and Arabic speak to the perceived challenges facing those communities in post-Trump America, says Prof. Devin Naar
By Josefin Dolsten
The Greek delegation of the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project baking challahs in Jerusalem in 2015. (Courtesy of Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project/via JTA)
December 10, 2016, 3:28 am
‘Birthright for moms’ resonates with world’s small Jewish communities
The Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project has participants from Sydney to San Francisco — but the initiative really hits home in countries with lower income and high anti-Semitism
By Cnaan Liphshiz
The wedding photo of Allegra Confino and Calev Elias, the grandparents of the film's director, Lawrence Russo. (Screenshot)
November 25, 2016, 3:41 pm
Wiped out ‘in the blink of an eye’: Only 35 Jews survived from a 2,000-year-old Greek community
A new film from co-producer and director duo Lawrence Russo and Larry Confino documents the WWII decimation of the Jews of Kastoria
By Reut R. Cohen
Alejandro Bautista from Las Lomas Bakery was able to reproduce the 'pan de siete cielos.' From Puebla, the baker said that the bread reminded him of the symbolic Mexican breads introduced by Spanish conquistadors. (Ronit Treatman/Times of Israel)
June 12, 2016, 4:28 pm
From Spain to Salonika, a disappearing Shavuot tradition revisited
A Greek-Sephardic custom until the Nazis decimated the community, will the ‘bread of the seven heavens’ soon be the crumbs of history?
By Ronit Treatman
Illustrative: Athens's Jewish school. (JTA Photo)
March 21, 2016, 4:17 am
Athens mayor signs declaration against anti-Semitism
Giorgos Kaminis joins 60 European mayors and 300 American ones in Jewish group’s prejudice awareness campaign
By JTA
Excavation team at the 400-year-old Kaha Shalom synagogue on Rhodes, Greece, using ground-penetrating radar to detect artifacts. (Courtesy)
November 9, 2015, 3:22 am
Paradise lost, and remembered, for the Jews of Rhodes
An exhibition at the University of Hartford explores a once-thriving Greek Jewish community before the Nazis deported all 1,800 to Auschwitz; only 150 survived
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative photo of an engraving featuring the Jewish Star of David. (Abir Sultan/Flash 90)
May 18, 2015, 7:56 am
Greek mayor relents in controversy over Holocaust monument
Jewish groups had blasted authorities for objecting to placement of a Star of David on commemorative stone
By AP and TOI staff
Illustrative photo of an engraving featuring the Jewish Star of David. (Abir Sultan/Flash 90)
May 16, 2015, 9:04 am
Greek town wants Star of David off Holocaust memorial
Jewish groups outraged after local authorities in Kavala cancel unveiling of monument
By JTA
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