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Assault on 16-year-old Austrian schoolboy wearing Star of David ring

Jewish community leader in Graz warns of uptick in antisemitism in recent years

By Liam Hoare

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Assault on 16-year-old Austrian schoolboy wearing Star of David ring

If anyone lost out from last weekend’s Sanders boycott, it is Aipac itself

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Warsaw Jewish museum finally appoints new director

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Inept report shows Austria’s far right has not changed

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‘Serious threat’ to Warsaw Jewish museum as Poland withholds reappointment

Museum partners say Dariusz Stola has been waiting to return since last May

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February 5, 2020 08:52

‘Serious threat’ to Warsaw Jewish museum as Poland withholds reappointment

New photos said to show notorious guard at work in Sobibor camp

Berlin museum says it will release images next week of John Demjanjuk at the Nazi camp where he always denied working

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January 21, 2020 11:55

New photos said to show notorious guard at work in Sobibor camp

Trial of German SS guard in chaos after witness withdraws

It has emerged Moshe Peter Loth, who publicly forgave the 93-year-old suspect Bruno Dey last year, is not the grandson of a Jewish woman gassed at Stutthof

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January 17, 2020 11:42

Trial of German SS guard in chaos after witness withdraws

Vienna's traditional New Year concert drops Nazi-era march

The Vienna Philharmonic said it now wanted to use a version that was ‘unconnected to the Nazi past’

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December 17, 2019 11:02

Vienna's traditional New Year concert drops Nazi-era march

Holocaust survivors’ defamation case reveals Austria’s far-right magazines

A European Court ruled in favour of Aba Lewit and nine other survivors claims that Austrian courts had failed to protect their reputation

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November 8, 2019 09:57

Holocaust survivors’ defamation case reveals Austria’s far-right magazines

Halle synagogue was told by police ‘there is no acute threat’

The security advice came before a gunman wearing military fatigues tried to storm the building during Yom Kippur prayers

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October 10, 2019 10:11

Halle synagogue was told by police ‘there is no acute threat’

Fears of a far-right return in Austria election

Every major party canvassed the Jewish vote in this campaign — except one

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September 28, 2019 19:00

Fears of a far-right return in Austria election

Chabad regains control of Krakow shul

Local directors were pictured climbing into the locked courtyard in July

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September 26, 2019 14:12

Austria to offer passports to survivors’ descendants

MPs in Austria's parliament unanimously approve cross-party plan to restore citizenship to children, grandchildren — and great-grandchildren too

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September 19, 2019 14:01

Austria to offer passports to survivors’ descendants

Anger after Austrian politician with Jewish roots speaks at far-right rally

Ursula Stenzel joined the torch-lit parade attended by members of the extremist Identitarian Movement

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September 9, 2019 11:41

Anger after Austrian politician with Jewish roots speaks at far-right rally

German police eject academic after shul places her on blacklist

Shani Tzoref was forcibly removed after she wrote a JC column objecting to the liberal synagogue's gender segregation

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July 23, 2019 14:42

German police eject academic after shul places her on blacklist

Worshippers locked out of Kraków shul in community dispute

The Chabad-run, religiously mixed congregation at the Izaak Synagogue has been holding services outside

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July 12, 2019 15:55

Worshippers locked out of Kraków shul in community dispute