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Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki (Flash90)

PA to sue UK over Balfour Declaration

JERUSALEM — With the 100th anniversary of a key Zionist declaration approaching, the PA said it plans to sue Britain for issuing the edict. The PA’s foreign...

Flowers and wreaths left at the memorial to the massacre at Jebwabne, July 10, 2016.

Seventy-five years since massacre at Jedwabne

JEDWABNE, Poland — As German army troops invaded eastern Poland, Ichak Lewin’s family fled their town of Wizna. On July 10, 1941, the Lewins approached the nearby...

The Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue in Myanmar (Burma)

Myanmar’s lone synagogue once the focus of 2,500 Jews

YANGON — Myanmar’s only synagogue was recognized by a Yangon historical organization. The Musmeah Yeshua Synagogue in Yangon, formerly Rangoon, installed a blue...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with British Prime Minister David Cameron, at Cameron's office at 10 Downing Street, London, England, on September 10, 2015. Photo by Avi Ohayon/GPO

Whither Israel if Britain leaves the EU?

London — Once controlling an empire spanning every continent, the UK has been undergoing an identity crisis in recent years. In 2014, Scotland, which has been part of...

After 10 days of festive conversion rites, 12 couples were wed in Jewish ceremonies. (Deborah Josefson)

Conversion comes to Madagascar

By Deobrah Josefson Antananarivo, Madagascar — A nascent Jewish community was officially born in Madagascar last month when 121 men, women and children underwent...

Symon Petliura Monument in Rivne, Ukraine (John McLaughlin/Wikimedia)

Ukraine honors nationalist whose troops butchered Jews

KIEV — Amid a divisive debate in Ukraine on state honors for nationalists viewed as responsible for anti-Semitic pogroms, the country for the first time observed a...

Muslim mayor of London sets out to build bridges

LONDON — The newly elected mayor of London, the first Muslim to hold the position, attended a community program commemorating the Holocaust as his first official...

Cameron: Corbyn must renounce ‘friends’

NEW YORK —— British Prime Minister David Cameron called on Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to renounce his past indication of friendship with Hamas and Hezbollah....

Jeremy Corbyn (Dan Kitwood/Getty)

Corbyn’s bluster infuriates Jews

LONDON —— Even before he was kicked out of Britain’’s Labour Party for saying that Israel runs the Islamic State, Bob Campbell was a marginal figure within...

Venice marks 500th anniversary of Jewish ghetto

VENICE — Venice has kicked off commemorations marking the 500th anniversary of the imposition of the world’s first official Jewish ghetto. Artists, scholars, musicians...