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Ruth Ellen Gruber, JTA

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It’s always Chanukah in this picturesque Italian town

CHANUKAH 5778 SECTION E PAGE 6 CASALE MONFERRATO, Italy — It’s always Chanukah in this picturesque town in northern Italy’s Piedmont region. Jews have lived in Casale...
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Shylock back in Venice

VENICE — Last week, an international, multilingual cast performed Shakespeare’s controversial play, “The Merchant of Venice,” in the secluded main plaza of the city’s historic...
International

Money, memory meet at Auschwitz

CRACOW — Pawel Sawicki gets to his desk every morning by 7, but he works no regular office job. Sawicki is an information officer...
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Warsaw’s POLIN museum celebrates and mourns Polish Jewish life

WARSAW — In a Europe wracked by fears of rising anti-Semitism, and in a country whose Jews were all but annihilated in the...
International

Two popes canonized

ROME — Popes John XXIII and John Paul II were declared saints of the Roman Catholic church on April 27, the day that...
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