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Assessing some of the damage after Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass,” in Germany on Nov. 9-10, 1938. Credit: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The echo of broken glass from Amsterdam

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I am horrified and outraged by the antisemitic attacks against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam. The events in Amsterdam last week mark a dark moment for European Jewry and demand our immediate attention. Jews were...
Map of Western Europe. Credit: Shutterstock.

European attitudes towards defense undergo sea change in wake of Ukraine war

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The defense awakening across Europe in response to the invasion of Ukraine is most dramatic among Western European countries, which had resisted the previous U.S. administration’s appeals to increase their defense budgets. In a...
A Jewish man waiting on the streets in Munich, Germany on May 5, 2018. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.

Terrorist attacks stark reminder for European Jewry, loud alarm for general society

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As Austrians were making the most of their last night in restaurants, cafes and bars on Nov. 2 before the onset of a new lockdown, a 20-year-old Islamic terrorist fired at passersby in Vienna’s...
Survivors at the Dachau concentration camp cheer their liberation by U.S. soldiers. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.

State Department: ‘Much work remains’ to provide restitution to Holocaust survivors and their descendants

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Property belonging to Holocaust survivors and their descendants have yet to be returned to their rightful owners, in addition to restitution to these people, is an issue largely unresolved 70 years after the end...
A view of Madrid, Spain. Credit: Falco via Pixabay.

In devastated Spain, Jewish leaders look to optimistic future

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Spain’s ambassador to the United States and the president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain discussed the challenges of, and response to, the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in that country in an online...