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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 573

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Illustrative: Wreaths placed at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin, Germany, on January 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
January 27, 2022, 10:25 pm
German soccer club fans unveil plaque dedicated to Jews deported from local area
Schalke supporters, working with the Gelsenkirchen municipality, local historians, and Jewish community, bring attention to deportation of 500 Jews to Nazi-ruled Latvian ghetto
By Ciaran Fahey
Riga Ghetto Museum des Vereins Shamir in Riga, Latvia (Fishman/ullstein bild via Getty Images via JTA)
October 30, 2020, 6:17 pm
Riga Holocaust museum to remain open after city waives rent
Latvian capital scraps plans to charge Ghetto Museum about $12,000 after 10-year lease expires
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Newly elected Latvian president, former European Court of Justice judge Egils Levits gives a press conference in Riga, Latvia, on May 29, 2019. ( Ilmars ZNOTINS / AFP)
May 29, 2019, 5:46 pm
MPs elect ex-Soviet dissident with Jewish roots as Latvian president
European Court of Justice judge Egil Levits and his Latvian patriot parents were expelled from former Soviet Union in 1972 because KGB viewed them as threat
By AFP and ToI Staff
A man taking part in a march to honor member of the Latvian Legion SS units in Riga, Latvia, on March 16, 2019. (Courtesy: JFDA e.V. / Grischa Stanjek(
March 17, 2019, 3:23 am
Latvians march to honor troops who fought alongside Nazis
About 1,000 gather in Riga for annual march of veterans of local Waffen SS units, with some 50 counter-demonstrators separated by police
By ToI Staff and JTA
In this file photo taken on June 2, 2018, protesters take part in a demonstration against reforming the minorities education in Latvia in Riga. (AFP Photo/Ilmars Znotins)
June 24, 2018, 8:59 am
Latvia school language reform irks Russian minority, backed by Jewish community
Riga’s chief rabbi throws support behind plan mandating minority schools to teach in Latvian, cites ‘disadvantaged’ Arab students in Israel who study in Arabic
By Imants Liepinsh and Anna Maria Jakubek
A view of the annual march on the Remembrance Day of the Latvian Legionnaires in Riga, Latvia, on March 16, 2018. (LTA Zinu dienests/Twitter via JTA)
March 16, 2018, 4:35 pm
In Latvia, hundreds march in honor of SS veterans
Man arrested for displaying a poster of soldiers killing Jews during world’s sole event for former Nazi fighters
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Deputy Speaker of the Latvian parliament Alexander Kirshtejns in 2013. (Screen capture: YouTube)
January 5, 2018, 4:38 pm
Latvian lawmaker slammed for saying Russian is the language of Zionism
Nationalist deputy speaker of parliament accused of anti-Semitism as he lobbies for removal of Russian from schools, says it is the same as Hebrew and Yiddish
By JTA
Ester Goldstein, left, and sister Margot lived in Berlin before they were separated in 1939. (Courtesy of Yad Vashem/via JTA)
May 23, 2017, 8:01 am
Short on time, Yad Vashem packing emotion into Trump visit
Israel’s Holocaust memorial to focus on the human toll through the story of one German Jewish girl, Ester Goldstein, murdered in the Riga ghetto
By Andrew Tobin
Karlis Serzants (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
March 19, 2016, 12:30 pm
Top Latvian MP: ‘Smart’ Jews working to undermine country
Karlis Serzants tells local radio that Jewish legal experts are skillful in operating ‘on the edge’ of the law
By JTA
Veterans of the Latvian Legion, a force that was commanded by the German Nazi Waffen SS during WWII, and their sympathizers carry flowers as they walk to the Monument of Freedom in Riga, Latvia, March 16, 2016. (AFP/Ilmars Znotins)
March 16, 2016, 9:26 pm
Latvian Nazi veterans join controversial annual march
Procession through Riga includes elderly ex-fighters of Waffen SS; Jewish groups say parade glorifies Nazism
By AFP
Latvian veterans who fought on Nazi Germany's side against the Soviets in World War II stage a controversial march in Riga, Latvia on March 16, 2015 (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)
March 16, 2015, 3:43 pm
Latvian veterans who fought alongside Nazis hold parade
1,500 participate in annual Riga march marking 1944 battle; Nazi hunter decries ‘distortion of history’
By AFP
Yosef Mendelevitch visiting St. Petersburg Airport, November 30, 2014. (Photo credit: Roman Yanushevsky, Courtesy of Limmud FSU)
November 29, 2014, 2:02 am
Former refusenik makes first visit to St. Petersburg since 1970
Renowned ‘Prisoner of Zion’ Yosef Mendelevitch speaks at Russian conference 44 years after attempted hijacking of plane to Israel
By JTA
Israeli President Shimon Peres and Latvian President Andris Berzins at the opening of the Zanis Lipke Memorial Museum in Riga, Latvia on Tuesday, July 30 (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)
July 30, 2013, 1:13 pm
Peres attends opening of Latvia museum honoring WWII Jew rescuers
Museum designed to give visitors a claustrophobic feeling, imitating victims’ life in an underground pit
Former Kadima MK Marina Solodkin, who died in Latvia on Saturday, poses for a photo outside the Knesset building in 2010. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
March 16, 2013, 11:46 pm
Former MK Marina Solodkin dies of stroke at 60
Netanyahu laments death of ‘upright public representative whose ear was always attuned to the problems of Israel’s citizens’
By Yifa Yaakov
A home phone (Illustrative photo credit: CC BY/tawalker via Flickr.com)
March 6, 2013, 4:32 pm
Decades-old family rift ends with a phone call
American relatives no longer know why a prewar dispute divided siblings across continents and decades
By Hillel Kuttler
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