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Detail from a 4th-century Greek inscription found in a Romaniote Jewish synagogue on the island of Aegina. (Courtesy Friends of the Mosaic Floor of the Aegina Synagogue Project)
August 28, 2019, 6:12 am
Campaigners bid to save rare 1,700-year-old Greek island synagogue mosaic
150,000 euros sought to preserve vivid geometric floor mosaic from what is arguably the oldest Jewish prayer house in Greece
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A view of the southern coast of Crete in June 1943. (German Federal Archive/Wikimedia Commons/via JTA)
June 11, 2019, 2:35 am
Greek Jews honor Crete community drowned in entirety en route to Auschwitz
75 years ago, Nazis rounded up the island’s Jewish population and forced them onto the tanker Tanais, subsequently mistaken for a German war ship and sunk by the British
By Bernard Dichek
Moses Elisaf, the first Jewish person elected mayor in Greece. (Screencapture/YouTube)
June 3, 2019, 2:32 am
Ioannina, home to unique Jewish community, elects Greece’s first Jewish mayor
Moses Elisaf elected with 51% of vote in city that was once heartland of country’s Romaniote Jewish tradition
By Gavin Rabinowitz
German Chancellor Angela Merkel pays tribute at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens on January 11, 2019 (Aris Messinis/AFP)
January 12, 2019, 6:33 pm
Merkel says Germany recognizes responsibility for Nazi crimes in Greece
Chancellor declares an understanding of the amount of suffering brought to the country during World War II
By AFP and TOI staff
A woman places a flower on the Holocaust memorial in Thessaloniki, during a protest against its desecration, on July 4, 2018. (AFP/ Sakis Mitrolidis)
December 17, 2018, 9:30 pm
Greek Holocaust memorial vandalized for 4th time this year
Swastika spray-painted on monument to Thessaloniki cemetery destroyed by Nazis, sparking condemnation from Israeli embassy, World Jewish Congress
By TOI staff
A woman places a flower on the Holocaust memorial in Thessaloniki, during a protest against its desecration, 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
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