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(JTA) — The Jewish Agency for Israel is denying an Israeli news report that Russia had ordered it to stop operating there.

(JTA) – Mexico’s president doubled down on calling a Jewish critic of his administration “Hitlerian,” prompting protests from representatives of his country’s Jewish community.

This week, AJC CEO David Harris is in Athens, Greece, to speak at The Economist Annual Government Roundtable and to meet with government officials. 

(Israel Hayom via JNS) American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and his wife, Israeli singer Daniella Pick, welcomed a baby girl to the world on Sunday.

(Israel21c via JNS) If you’re looking for friendship, sniff a stranger.

(JNS) After years of touring the world’s leading museums, several exquisite 1,700-year-old Roman mosaics returned to Israel for public display.

(JNS) A German court sentenced a former Nazi concentration camp guard to a five-year jail term on June 28.

(JTA) — In a live streamed address to students, faculty and staff at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Israel to join the network of countries around the world that have placed sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.

(JNS) Iranian cyber-attackers targeting Israel have focused on trying to create panic; however, they have not activated advanced cyber-attack capabilities, say observers in Israel while cautioning that the hostile actors will continue to search for new vulnerabilities.

(JTA) — Pope Francis has ordered 170 volumes of Jewish requests for help from the Catholic Church during World War II to be published online, two years after making their physical copies available to historians.