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Curb Your Enthusiasm ends: Our top 5 moments

After 12 seasons and 25 years, David's second hit sitcom after Seinfeld will finally end.

15/12/2023

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WATCH: Far-right Polish MP expelled from parliament for extinguishing Hanukkah candles

All major political forces quickly denounced the incident carried out by Grzegorz Braun, and said there would be no tolerance for anti-semitic and xenophobic behaviour in the Sejm, the Polish parliament.

12/12/2023

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Culture Re-View: How The Jazz Singer ended cinema's silent era

6 October 1927: The Jazz Singer is released

06/10/2023

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Watch: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Yom Kippur Ritual

Observant Jews believe they transfer their past years' sins into the chicken, symbolically ridding themselves of their transgressions.

21/09/2023

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Which European sites are being added to UNESCO's World Heritage List?

From ancient cities to producing beer; UNESCO's latest European additions give a lot of travel inspiration.

20/09/2023

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Happy 5784! How Jews worldwide are celebrating their New Year's Day

To misquote the Black Eyed Peas’ phenomenal ‘Boom Boom Pow’: “I’m so 5784, you’re so 2000 and… sore?”

15/09/2023

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Warsaw museum displays rare artefacts from World War II Jewish ghetto

An exhibition at the Kordegarda gallery, presenting artefacts found during excavations in the Warsaw ghetto, comes just in time for the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

18/04/2023

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Jewish worshippers pray at Jerusalem's Western Wall

Thousands of Jewish worshippers gathered on Sunday at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, the holiest place where Jews can pray, for a mass priestly benediction prayer service for Passover.

09/04/2023

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Steven Spielberg collects honorary Golden Bear at Berlinale

Visibly moved, the legendary director said the lifetime achievement honour for a glittering career had added significance for him as a Jewish man being honoured in the German capital.

23/02/2023

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The world's oldest and most complete bible goes to auction

More than 1,000 years old, the Codex Sassoon is a missing link in the history of Abrahamic religions.

17/02/2023

World News

Kyiv celebrates Hanukkah amid electricity blackouts

Kyiv celebrates Hanukkah in a ceremony that reflected on Ukrainians still left in darkness due to Russian attacks on critical infrastructure.

19/12/2022

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Worshippers pray by Western Wall during Sukkot

Thousands of Jewish worshippers attended the Priestly Blessing at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. The traditional blessing, usually attended by tens of thousands of worshippers, is held three times a year on the holidays of Sukkot, Shavuot and Passover.

12/10/2022

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It's Jewish New Year: but what is Rosh Hashanah?

Seem a few months too early? Learn about how the Hebrew calendar celebrates its new year in September.

25/09/2022

Italy

'Life that was': Experts restore historic synagogues in Venice ghetto

Venice’s ghetto dates from 1516 when the republic forced the city's Jewish residents into isolation in the district where the old foundries, or “geti”, had been located.

12/06/2022

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Jewish pilgrimage begins at the Ghriba synagogue in Tunisia

Pilgrims have arrived for the annual Ghriba pilgrimage on the tourist island of Djerba in southern Tunisia.

18/05/2022

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Publishing pulled on controversial Anne Frank cold case book

'The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation' landed in Europe's bookstores on January 18 to a mixed reception and mounting scrutiny about the claims it makes.

31/01/2022

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Tu Bishvat: What is the Jewish holiday for trees?

Get your seder plates and gardening gear ready: it's time to celebrate Tu Bishvat.

16/01/2022

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Giant lego menorah in Budapest

Hungarian Jews celebrated Hanukkah by lighting candles on a Lego menorah in their Buda Castle religious house.

02/12/2021

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Jerusalem: Western Wall notes cleared ahead of Jewish New Year

Prayer notes were removed Wednesday ahead of the Jewish New Year from between the stones of the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

25/08/2021

Cult

Discover the centuries-old culture of Mountain Jews in Azerbaijan

In partnership with The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Located at the foot of the Greater Caucasus, Krasnaya Sloboda in Azerbaijan is a Jewish settlement that has existed for centuries. We discover the life of the mountain Jews there with a museum dedicated to them.

25/02/2021