‘Russia has crossed the Rubicon’ — arrest of Evan Gershkovich
David I. KleinApr 05, 2023
Evan Gershkovich, 31, has been charged with espionage, in a move that human rights organizations are decrying and the Biden administration is fighting.
Wrenching journey — Haggadah in Ukrainian
David I. KleinApr 05, 2023
For the first time, a Passover Haggadah in Ukrainian.
Bulgaria’s Jews skip remembrance ceremony
David I. KleinMar 23, 2023
Conspicuously absent from a March 10 ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of Bulgaria’s dramatic decision to save its 48,000 Jews from the Nazis were any...
Did Iran direct anti-Semitic attack in Germany?
David I. KleinMar 23, 2023
After a century-old synagogue in Essen, Germany, was struck by two bullets last November, in 2022, news reports connected it to the shooting at a synagogue in Halle...
Earthquake brings Antioch’s 2,500-year-old Jewish community to an end
David I. KleinFeb 16, 2023
Jews have been present in Antakya — known in antiquity as Antioch — for nearly 2,500 years, since its founding under the Seleucid Empire.
Never before seen footage of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising unearthed
David I. KleinJan 26, 2023
For the last 80 years, the only way to see images of Jews rising up against their captors in the Warsaw Ghetto has been from the perspective of Germans, who took the...
Pope Benedict was an enigma for Jews
David I. KleinJan 12, 2023
ROME — Jewish groups are among those marking the death of Benedict XVI, the Catholic pontiff who died Dec. 31 at 95, a decade after shocking the world by becoming the...
In Turkey, a festival revives a jewel of the Sephardic world
David I. KleinJan 12, 2023
IZMIR, Turkey — Prague has the dubious distinction of having been chosen by Adolf Hitler to be a record of what he hoped would be the vanquished and finished Jews of...
Lithuania: $38 million for Holocaust survivors
David I. KleinJan 05, 2023
By David I. Klein VILNIUS — Lithuania’s parliament passed a law last week to set aside over 37 million euros ($38 million) as restitution for Holocaust survivors and...
Jews in Kherson face collaboration charges
David I. KleinDec 15, 2022
When Russian troops poured across the Ukrainian border in March, thousands fled from the cities that would be first in their path. But in Kherson, the southern port city...
