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Government / News Briefs / Eastern Europe

Herzog Meets Latvian Counterpart, Hails Three Decades of Bilateral Ties

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

“Israel places great importance on continuing to enhance and deepen our bilateral relations with Latvia as well as all three Baltic states,” says the Israeli president.

Israel / Diaspora / Chessed and Tzedaka / Judaism

Ohr Torah Stone Launches Jewish Education Grants to Small European Communities

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The first recipients of the grant will help strengthen seven small European communities in Helsinki, Finland; Riga, Latvia; Oslo, Norway; and Warsaw, Szczecin and Wroclaw, Poland.

Featured / IDF & Security / History / Eastern Europe / NATO

For the First Time Since Hannah Szenes IDF Paratroopers Jump in Eastern Europe

By JNi.Media

The IDF paratroopers are participating in joint training with the 173rd Brigade of the European Command of the US Army.

IDF & Security / Eastern Europe

A First: IDF Participating in NATO Eastern European Exercises

By JNi.Media

Nineteen countries participate in the maneuvers, with about 18,000 soldiers spread around Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.

News Briefs / Europe / Media / Jerusalem / Holocaust

Yad Vashem Online Presents Touching 'Last Letters From the Holocaust'

By JNi.Media

There are thousands of personal letters in the Yad Vashem Archives, which were sent by Jews – adults and children – to their relatives and friends from their homes, the ghettos and the camps.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

Peres Flying to Lithuania, Will Thank Blacklisting Hezbollah

By Jewish Press News Desk

President Shimon Peres is flying  on Sunday to Latvia and Lithuania, temporary president of the European Union whom he will thank the European Union for blacklisting the Hezbollah military wing as a terrorist organization. The EU decision does not affect the Hezbollah political party, which gives orders to the branch. He will return just in […]

News Briefs

Latvian Minister Resigns in Protest of Holocaust Restitution to Jews

By JTA

Latvian Justice Minister Gaidis Berzins has resigned in protest of plans to offer restitution for Jewish property seized after the Holocaust. Berzins, chair of the rightist All For Latvia-For Fatherland and Freedom Party, announced his resignation on Wednesday, the country’s news agency Leta reported. In 2006, the Latvian parliament blocked a bill proposing $55 million […]

Serials

Freedom Is the Ownership of Time

By Itamar Frankenthal

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