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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)
Posted inNews

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)
Posted inObituaries

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.
Posted inFrom the Archives

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)
Posted inWorld

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)
Posted inWorld

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)
Posted inWorld

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
Philosopher Jason Stanley (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Yale University)
Posted inNews

A philosopher went viral for tweeting about ‘polite dinners’ with Nazis. Here’s what he really thinks.

by Sarah Nachimson and Forward August 17, 2022
Rolf Eden at the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 24, 2017 (Photo/JTA-Matthias Nareyek-Getty Images)
Posted inObituaries

Rolf Eden, German playboy and nightclub impresario who fought in Israel’s War of Independence, dies at 92

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA August 17, 2022August 17, 2022
Political science professor Maksym Gon is at the front in the Donbas region of Ukraine, defending the country from the Russian army. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Gon)
Posted inWorld

This Jewish Ukrainian professor could still be teaching. He chose to go to war instead.

by Helen Chervitz and Forward August 10, 2022August 11, 2022

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