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(JNS) Israel has called on its citizens to leave Ukraine as a Russian invasion appears increasingly likely.

(JNS) Belgium’s Royal Museums of Fine Arts has returned a painting to the great-grandchildren of a Jewish couple who owned the artwork before it was stolen by the Nazis, reported Reuters.

(JTA) — Systematic persecution of Jews in Yemen by Houthi rebels and a previous government has driven the ancient community almost entirely out of the country, with possibly just seven remaining, a United Nations panel said.

TEL AVIV — A few weeks ago, Joel Tenenbaum, 81, and Marilyn Berkowitz, 84, arrived in Tel Aviv on an El Al flight from New York ready to start their new lives in Israel. 

(JTA) – In yet another addition to the world of Wordle offshoots, an Australia-based Jewish community organization has created Jewdle — a distinctly Jewish version of the wildly popular online word game. 

(JNS) Israeli archeologists have discovered a 1.5-million-years-old human vertebra—the earliest evidence of an ancient human discovered in the country, according to a report published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports.

(JTA) — Despite the continuing COVID chaos and the mounting protests about China’s human rights record, the 2022 Beijing Olympics are proceeding on schedule, just six months after the delayed Tokyo games — and we have your guide to the Jewish athletes who are on their way.

(Israel Hayom via JNS) Over the past year, 15,324 Holocaust survivors died in Israel, according to data published on Wednesday by the country’s Social Equality Ministry.

Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Nachman Shai recently sat down for an interview with Jewish Federations of North America.

(JNS) The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) has launched a new social-media initiative in partnership with Yad Vashem that highlights the stories of non-Jews who saved Jews from Nazi persecution during the Holocaust.