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Opinion: After 70 years, Israel still plagued with internal rifts

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Holocaust survivors: Shanghai ghetto was paradise compared with Europe

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Putin condemned for saying Jews may have manipulated U.S. election

JewishgroupsandU.S.lawmakerscondemnedRussianPresidentVladimirPutin’ssuggestionthatthe2016U.S.presidentialelectionmayhavebeenmanipulatedbyRussianJews.Putin’srema

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Chinese musical to take Broadway stage on regular basis

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Macron, Netanyahu mark 75 years since Paris roundup of Jews

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined a ceremony in Paris on Sunday marking 75 years since the roundup of 13,000 Jews sent to Nazi death camps, with French President Emmanuel Macron saying France's responsibility was a "stark truth".

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Copenhagen imam accused of calling for killing of Jews

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Israel marks annual Holocaust Remembrance Day

Israel marked the beginning of its annual day of Holocaust remembrance on Sunday evening with an official ceremony in Jerusalem.

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Philippine president's Hitler remarks clarified

Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said Duterte's reference to the slaughter was an oblique deflection of the way he has been pictured as a mass murderer, a Hitler, is a label that he rejects.

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Israeli forces enter Jerusalem's mosque for Palestinian rioters

Israeli forces on Sunday stormed in Jerusalem's al-Aqsa compound after dozens of Palestinians hurled stones and firecrackers at police officers, Israeli officials said.

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Return of Israel's religious parties to gov't may spell social, economic trouble

​After two years in the opposition, Israel's ultra-Orthodox parties, Shas and the United Torah Judaism, managed to secure their spots in the new Israeli government formed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month.

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Chinese visas to Shanghai save thousands of Jews in Austria before WWII

China and Israel on Tuesday unveiled a plaque to commemorate a late Chinese diplomat for his humanitarian efforts on the eve of World War II, at the site of the former Chinese Consulate General in Vienna.

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Israel lays to rest 4 victims of Paris supermarket attack

Israeli leaders and multitude of mourners gathered Tuesday with the families of four Jewish victims of last week's terror attack on a Paris kosher supermarket for a solemn funeral ceremony at a Jerusalem cemetery.