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Hungarian Jews celebrate the opening of a new synagogue in Budapest on Aug. 27, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
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Which European countries are best for Jews? A new study offers unexpected answers.

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA June 21, 2022June 21, 2022
Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich addresses congregants during the prayer ahead of Yom Kippur at the open-air synagogue at the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv, Sep. 15, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Oksana Parafeniuk for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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A chief rabbi in Ukraine denies sexual misconduct allegations

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA June 15, 2022
Monika Salzer speaks at a rally with fellow members of the Omas Gegen Rechts group, or Grandmas Against the Right, which she co-founded in 2017. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Omas Gegen Rechts)
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In Germany and Austria, a movement of grandmothers is taking on the far right

headshot of Joe Baur by Joe Baur and JTA January 5, 2022
A scene from the Yiddish version of "Waiting for Godot" staged at Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm, Nov. 13, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Magnus Swärd-Judisk kultur i Sverige)
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Sweden’s national theater stages its first ever Yiddish production

by Katarzyna Andersz and JTA November 22, 2021November 22, 2021
Jewish immigrants moving to Israel get off the plane at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv in 2020. (Photo/JTA-Jewish Agency for Israel)
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A quarter of European Jewish community leaders say they’ve considered emigrating amid concerns about growing antisemitism

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA November 18, 2021November 18, 2021
Eddie Jaku shows the concentration camp number tattoo on his left arm, July 2, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Louise Kennerley-The Sydney Morning Herald via Getty Images)
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Holocaust survivor who called himself ‘The Happiest Man on Earth’ dies at 101

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA October 13, 2021
Volunteers put the finishing touches on the new Lypovets Holocaust museum.
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New Ukraine Holocaust museum honors Bay Area man’s history

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss September 24, 2021
The interior of the Great Synagogue of Slonim, Belarus, pictured in 2007. (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
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In Eastern Europe, historic synagogues are sold for the price of a used car

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA March 5, 2021
The new Holocaust Museum of Porto, Portugal, is set to open Jan. 20, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Jewish Community of Porto)
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Jewish community shaped by the Inquisition opens Portugal’s first Holocaust museum

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA January 13, 2021January 13, 2021
Protesters march through Paris on Jan. 11, 2015. (Photo/Wikimedia Commons-Sébastien Amiet)
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6 years after Hyper Cacher killings, French Jews say sense of solidarity “has all but dissipated”

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA January 12, 2021January 12, 2021

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