By Alex Gordon in Haifa, Israel After the implementation of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Jewish population of the USSR increased by approximately two million people. The annexation of Western Ukraine, Western Belarus, the Baltic States, Bessarabia, and Northern Bukovina resulted in the total Jewish population of the USSR reaching five million people. As a result
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Unfortunately, antisemitism is still an issue around the world and is upsetting to read about in our own San Diego County. The No Place for Hate response is that if you hear something, say something; do not be a bystander, but stand up when hate is encountered. We should support each other. (Cailin Acosta)
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I once learned from my Rabbi that according to the kabbala, when you catch a fish and then serve it for your Shabbos meal, you have elevated it spiritually by enabling the fish to complete its reincarnation for which it was brought to earth.
(Avraham Dimenstein)
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Louise’s parents want to shield her from knowledge of the antisemitism that brought an end to more than two millennia-long Jewish settlement in Iraq, once known as Babylon. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Created in collaboration with the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum, the Chinese American GI Project and the local community, the exhibition explores the journeys of Jewish refugees to Shanghai and their lives during and after World War II. (Cailin
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Cailin Acosta, Holocaust, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Travel and Food, USAAnti-Defamation League of San Diego announces “Confronting Extremism: Oren Segal in Conversation with Father Brent Kruger” at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 9, in Carmel Valley. [Cailin Acosta]
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The first Jewish recipients were Tobias Asser (1911), a Dutch lawyer who was honored for his work on international law and the Hague Conferences and Alfred Fried (1911), the Austrian pacifist, journalist, and co-founder of the German Peace Society. (Oliver B. Pollak)
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Holocaust, International, Israel, Jewish History, Oliver Pollak, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Travel and Food, USAWith school back in session from Kinder to College, the American Jewish Committee shares key resources and guidance designed specifically for schools, students, and parents to create learning environments that are inclusive of all identities, including Jewish identity, and safe from harassment and fear. [Cailin Acosta]
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NEW YORK CITY (Press Release) — Hate crimes data recently released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reveals that reported single-bias anti-Jewish hate crime incidents in 2025 remained by far the most common form of religion-based hate crimes in the United States. A total of 1,528 anti-Jewish hate crime incidents were reported in 2025,
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Iceland had a population of about 115,000 in 1935. By the end of the decade Reykjavik’s population of about 28,000 included three “Jewish” musicians from Germany and Austria. (Oliver B. Pollak)
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Finally, my mother agreed to put the ring in a safe deposit box, with the promise to give it to my future fiancé. And that is what she did 20 years later, when she handed it to my spouse-to-be — for him to hand to me. [Karen Galatz]
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Jewish Religion, Karen Galatz, Lifestyles, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Travel and Food, Trivia, Humor & SatireWittstock and Blubacher, born in 1955 and 1967 respectively, represent a postwar generation of scholars who chronicle what went horrendously wrong in Germany, the decline of the Weimar Republic, Germans who felt wronged and betrayed by the Treaty of Versailles, inflation and financial disaster, Hitler’s charismatic attraction to the alienated volk, and the methodical manner in which Nazis infiltrated and challenged democratic political and cultural institutions focusing on the enemy, and eliminating Jews, Socialists and Communists. [Oliver B. Pollak]
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Nefesh B’Nefesh on Sunday celebrated the arrival of its 100,000th North American Oleh, a landmark achievement since the organization’s founding in 2002. [Press Release]
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International, Israel, Jewish History, Press Release, Travel and Food, USAWith elementary, middle, and high schools all heading back for a fun and adventurous new year, be mindful on the road, look for kids with backpacks, and watch your speed. [Cailin Acosta]
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