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A Dutch journalist hunting for art treasures belonging to an Amsterdam Jewish art dealer spent years trying to get answers from Patricia Kadgien, the daughter of the Nazi financier who had made off with some of them, with no luck. So last year he went to her house in Mar del Plata, a resort city on Argentina’s Atlantic coast.

The United Kingdom, France and Canada will ban goods produced in the West Bank settlements and Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told Parliament on Sept. 8, stating that all such communities were deemed by his country to be illegal.

President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded a medal of honor on Aug. 27 to Natan Sharansky in Kiev for his efforts to help Ukraine and preserve the memory of the Holocaust there.

Former Knesset Member Yoav Segalovitz announced Aug. 31 that he had joined the Arab the Ra’am party led by Mansour Abbas in an attempt to give the coalition of opposition parties enough votes to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oct. 27 Israeli election.

California is poised to become the first state to deem “Jewish identity” an ethnic and racial identity, after lawmakers gave final approval to the groundbreaking legislation on Aug. 31. The SB 1387 bill expands the definition of ethnicity “to include Jewish identity” in demographic data collection.