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Avitall Gerstetter, shown in 2019, wrote a column critical of conversion in Germany. (Photo/JTA-Stephan Röhl-Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung via Wikimedia Commons)
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Are too many Germans converting to Judaism? The debate is roiling Germany’s Jewish community.

by Toby Axelrod and JTA September 7, 2022September 7, 2022
Then-U.K. Foreign Minister Liz Truss and Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meet at the U.K. Commonwealth and Development Office in London, Nov. 29, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Stefan Rousseau-PA Images via Getty Images)
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On Jewish issues, new UK Prime Minister Liz Truss looks to continue in Boris Johnson’s footsteps

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA September 7, 2022
Two men hold up signs in front of Auschwitz.
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Polish police arrest Minadeo during white supremacist tour of Europe

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman September 4, 2022September 6, 2022
Israeli fans at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Sept. 5, 1972. (Photo/JTA-Klaus Rose-picture alliance via Getty Images)
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How the 1972 Munich Massacre unfolded, through the eyes of athletes in the Olympic village

by Jon Marks and JTA September 2, 2022September 2, 2022
State Department spokesman Ned Price takes a question from a reporter during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, Feb. 28, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Andrew Harnik-Pool-AFP via Getty Images)
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What’s in the new Iran deal, and what’s holding it up?

by Ron Kampeas and JTA September 1, 2022September 1, 2022
Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev at the European Parliament in Brussels, May 26, 2008. (Photo/European Parliament-Pietro Naj-Oleari CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader whose reforms included letting Jews leave for Israel, dies at 91

by Ron Kampeas and JTA August 31, 2022August 31, 2022
In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev made the front page of our paper.
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Gorbachev was closely watched in Bay Area, a center of Soviet Jewry activism

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 31, 2022August 31, 2022
Participants in a 125th anniversary gathering of the 1897 First Zionist Congress will recreate an iconic photograph taken then of Theodor Herzl, father of modern political Zionism. (Photo/JTA-GPO via Getty Images)
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World Zionist Organization convenes hundreds in Basel to mark 125th anniversary of First Zionist Congress

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA August 29, 2022
Bottles of Lunardelli Wine with labels depicting Nazi leader Adolf Hitler are displayed on a shelf in a wine shop near Venice, Sept. 12, 2003. (Photo/JTA-Giuseppe Cacace-Getty Images)
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Italian company that has long produced Hitler wines says it will stop next year

Orge Castellano by Orge Castellano and JTA August 23, 2022
Members of the Oberammergau Passion Play, which has been telling the New Testament story of Jesus’ death and resurrection since 1634, sing backstage in Oberammergau, Germany, July 12, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Angelika Warmuth-picture alliance via Getty Images)
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The director of Germany’s infamous Passion Play takes its antisemitic stereotypes by the horns

by Toby Axelrod and JTA August 18, 2022August 19, 2022

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