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Latvia drops investigation into Nazi collaborator’s Holocaust participation because it was ‘not genocide'

Prosecutors claimed that Herberts Cukurs’ actions ‘do not constitute’ genocide under the country’s criminal code

By Jewish News Syndicate

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Herberts Cukurs was a Nazi collaborator in Latvia who has been accused of participating in the mass murder of the country's Jews (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
(l-r) Rabbi Misha Kapustin, Rabbi Andrew Goldstein and his wife Sharon reuniting at the newly restored Trencin Synagogue in Slovakia (Photo: courtesy of Reform Judaism)

Northwood Ark emeritus rabbi reunites with former student in Slovakia

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Two orthodox jews are seen arriving are seen arriving at the Medyka pedestrian border crossing in eastern Poland on February 25, 2022, fleeing the conflict in their country, one day after Russia launched a military attack on its neighbour Ukraine. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP) (Photo by WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Early signs of a mass Jewish exodus from Ukraine and Russia says new report

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JJJ6Y7 Krasilov, Ukraine (Russian / Polish shtetl or Jewish village ).c. 1916-17. Jewish men sitting outside shop talking

When eastern Europe was home to the Jews

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