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Diaspora Jewry

Reopened synagogues give Hungary’s Jews a chance to connect to their Jewishness, says Chabad Rabbi Shlomo Köves.
“We have big freezers and have been working since after Passover to prepare the items,” said Yehoshua Vishedski at Vaad HaKashrut of Ukraine.
Hundreds of the neediest Jews across the former Soviet Union will also receive such packages for the holidays, starting before Rosh Hashanah.
A Jewish center in London disinvited the Israeli minister, reportedly due to local communal pressure.
The memorial wall features the names of 842 victims from Oporto and the dates of their autos-da-fé.
New York’s Congregation Shearith Israel says the congregation has failed to be a good steward of the site.
The documents were rescued during the Iraq War and are now in Washington. The Baghdad regime wants them back.
“Israel is closer than you think,” longtime diplomat Lorin Maugery told JNS.
New York City, where a majority of incidents occur, saw an increase of 33% in crimes against Jews.
The historic conference crossed the Atlantic for the post-COVID summit.
The fatal disease is 10 times more prevalent among Ashkenazi Jews as the general American public.
Therapist Rachel Bernstein says she has spoken to more than 1,000 former cult members in the course of three decades.