David I. Klein

Lithuania’s Jews and Yiddishists around the world are mourning the passing of Fania Brantsovsky, the last surviving member of the Jewish underground in the Vilna ghetto and a keeper of the flame of the city’s once glorious Yiddish past, who died at the age of 102 on Sept. 22 in Vilnius.

Evan Gershkovich, 31, has been charged with espionage, in a move that human rights organizations are decrying and the Biden administration is fighting.

For the first time, a Passover Haggadah in Ukrainian.

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 representatives of Bulgaria’s contemporary Jewish community.

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 three years earlier that had been perpetrated by a far-right German extremist.