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6 October 1927: The Jazz Singer is released

06/10/2023

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Watch: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Yom Kippur Ritual

Observant Jews believe they transfer their past years' sins into the chicken, symbolically ridding themselves of their transgressions.

21/09/2023

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Which European sites are being added to UNESCO's World Heritage List?

From ancient cities to producing beer; UNESCO's latest European additions give a lot of travel inspiration.

20/09/2023

Rabbi Eliyahu Schusterman of Atlanta's Chabad Intown, blows a shofar at the congregation's small Jewish temple in Atlanta Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2005.

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Happy 5784! How Jews worldwide are celebrating their New Year's Day

To misquote the Black Eyed Peas’ phenomenal ‘Boom Boom Pow’: “I’m so 5784, you’re so 2000 and… sore?”

15/09/2023

A Nazi SS-man inspects a group of Jewish workers in April 1943 in the Ghetto of Warsaw.

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Warsaw museum displays rare artefacts from World War II Jewish ghetto

An exhibition at the Kordegarda gallery, presenting artefacts found during excavations in the Warsaw ghetto, comes just in time for the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

18/04/2023

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Jewish worshippers pray at Jerusalem's Western Wall

Thousands of Jewish worshippers gathered on Sunday at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, the holiest place where Jews can pray, for a mass priestly benediction prayer service for Passover.

09/04/2023

Steven Spielberg with his honorary Golden Bear at the Berlinale

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Steven Spielberg collects honorary Golden Bear at Berlinale

Visibly moved, the legendary director said the lifetime achievement honour for a glittering career had added significance for him as a Jewish man being honoured in the German capital.

23/02/2023

The 'Codex Sassoon' bible is displayed at Sotheby's in New York on February 15, 2023.

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The world's oldest and most complete bible goes to auction

More than 1,000 years old, the Codex Sassoon is a missing link in the history of Abrahamic religions.

17/02/2023

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Kyiv celebrates Hanukkah amid electricity blackouts

Kyiv celebrates Hanukkah in a ceremony that reflected on Ukrainians still left in darkness due to Russian attacks on critical infrastructure.

19/12/2022

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men as they perform the annual Cohanim prayer at the Western Wall in the old city of Jerusalem.

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Worshippers pray by Western Wall during Sukkot

Thousands of Jewish worshippers attended the Priestly Blessing at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. The traditional blessing, usually attended by tens of thousands of worshippers, is held three times a year on the holidays of Sukkot, Shavuot and Passover.

12/10/2022

David R. Cohen is the "Baal Jekiah," Hebrew for the shofar trumpeter, at Temple-Kol Ami in Beachwood, Ohio during Rosh Hashanah

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It's Jewish New Year: but what is Rosh Hashanah?

Seem a few months too early? Learn about how the Hebrew calendar celebrates its new year in September.

25/09/2022

Interiors of the Spanish Schola Synagogue in Venice, 1 June 2022

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'Life that was': Experts restore historic synagogues in Venice ghetto

Venice’s ghetto dates from 1516 when the republic forced the city's Jewish residents into isolation in the district where the old foundries, or “geti”, had been located.

12/06/2022

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Jewish pilgrimage begins at the Ghriba synagogue in Tunisia

Pilgrims have arrived for the annual Ghriba pilgrimage on the tourist island of Djerba in southern Tunisia.

18/05/2022

People walk up the stairs at the renovated Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Publishing pulled on controversial Anne Frank cold case book

'The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation' landed in Europe's bookstores on January 18 to a mixed reception and mounting scrutiny about the claims it makes.

31/01/2022

Tu Bishvat was used in the late 19th century to plant trees across modern-day Israel, draining the swampland to make it inhabitable.

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Tu Bishvat: What is the Jewish holiday for trees?

Get your seder plates and gardening gear ready: it's time to celebrate Tu Bishvat.

16/01/2022

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Giant lego menorah in Budapest

Hungarian Jews celebrated Hanukkah by lighting candles on a Lego menorah in their Buda Castle religious house.

02/12/2021

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Jerusalem: Western Wall notes cleared ahead of Jewish New Year

Prayer notes were removed Wednesday ahead of the Jewish New Year from between the stones of the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

25/08/2021

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Discover the centuries-old culture of Mountain Jews in Azerbaijan

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND TOURISM OF THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN

Located at the foot of the Greater Caucasus, Krasnaya Sloboda in Azerbaijan is a Jewish settlement that has existed for centuries. We discover the life of the mountain Jews there with a museum dedicated to them.

25/02/2021

'Kosh-Armani' Cuisine: Dubai opens its very first kosher restaurant in the world’s tallest structure

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'Kosh-Armani' Cuisine: Dubai opens its very first kosher restaurant

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Kosher cuisine comes to Dubai thanks to closer relations between the UAE and Israel. For restaurants in Dubai that means competition to offer food which complies with Jewish Dietary laws. Chef Fabien Fayolle at the Armani Hotel in Dubai’s Burj Khalifa is no exception.

10/11/2020

Jewish and Muslim leaders in joint visit to Nazi death camp Auschwitz

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Jewish and Muslim leaders in joint visit to Nazi death camp Auschwitz

The historic visit comes ahead of commemorations to mark 75 years since its liberation.

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