Comedian Jon Stewart announces he is leaving The Daily Show, the
mock news program he anchored for 16 years and built into a political
and cultural touchstone.

Europe's Jewish population is pegged at 1.4 million, down from 2 mil-
lion in 1991 and 3.2 million in 1960, according to a new Pew Research
Center survey. Overall, European Jews account for about 10 percent of
the world Jewish population, compared to 57 percent in 1939, the eve
of the Holocaust.

CBS News reporter Bob Simon, an Emmy Award-winning correspon-
dent who was held captive in Iraq for 40 days while covering the Gulf
War in 1991, is killed in a car crash in New York. He was 73.

Jon Stewart announced an end to his run on

The Daily Show.

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synagogue, where a guard
was shot and killed Feb.

A gunman attacks the main synagogue in Copenhagen, killing a
security guard. The attack comes just hours after a gunman kills one
person at a cafe in the city, where a caricaturist who had lampooned
Islam was speaking. The attacks are seen as a wake-up call for Danish
Jews to the threat of Islamic terrorism. As a gesture of solidar-
ity, Muslims in neighboring Norway form a "peace ring" around an
Oslo synagogue.

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The Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film goes to Ida, a Polish
movie about a Catholic novitiate who learns she is the daughter of
Jewish parents killed by the Nazis. But Israel's losing streak at the
Oscars continues as Aya fails to win for Best Short Film.

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More than half of U.S. Jewish college students witnessed or experi-
enced anti-Semitism, an online survey conducted by two professors at
Trinity College finds.

In a landmark case, a New York jury orders the PLO and the
Palestinian Authority to pay more than $218 million in damages
to American victims of six terrorist attacks that took place in Israel
between 2002 and 2004 and were attributed to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs
Brigade and Hamas. The Palestinian Authority pledges to appeal.

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accepted the Best Foreign
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Ida during the 87th Annual

Leonard Nimoy, the actor who portrayed the iconic character Spock
on Star Trek for over four decades on television and in film, dies at
83. Born in Boston to Yiddish-speaking Orthodox parents, Nimoy had
said he derived Spock's trademark split-finger salute from the priestly
blessing that involves a physical approximation of the Hebrew letter
"shin"

Academy Awards in Los
Angeles, Feb. 22, 2015.

March 2015

Amid lingering controversy, Prime Minister Netanyahu addresses a
joint session of Congress to warn of the emerging Iran nuclear deal.
Several Jewish lawmakers skip the address. Obama says the speech
offers "nothing new," and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., calls it an "insult
to the intelligence of the United States:'

The Reform movement's rabbinic group, the Central Conference of
American Rabbis, installs Denise Eger as its first openly gay president.

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