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A Jewish pitcher was tapped to start the MLB All-Star game. In a menschy move, he gave it up.
Max Fried is one of two Jewish stars who were selected for this year's Summer Classic but won't play because of injury
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Why a major teachers union voted to break ties with the ADL
The National Education Association wants to part ways with the Anti-Defamation League in part over disagreements related to Israel
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Holy Ground This town lost most of its Jews. But not its Judaism.
A century-old Orthodox synagogue in a Rust Belt town lost most of its congregation, its rabbis, and almost everything else — but not its daily minyan
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Fast Forward Could a $1,700 rebate change the landscape of Jewish education?
What a national school voucher program in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will mean for American Jews — and why it’s dividing them
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Friends of the IDF in crisis after internal report alleges financial abuse and toxic culture
The U.S.-based charity has raised hundreds of millions of dollars by promising to meet the emergency needs of Israeli soldiers during the war in Gaza
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Meet the Jews who helped elect Zohran Mamdani
Progressive Jewish strategists helped the Muslim candidate navigate controversy and connect with voters
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Rabbis can now endorse political candidates. But will they?
A new IRS policy lets clergy back political figures without losing tax-exempt status — but many Jewish leaders say politics doesn’t belong in the pulpit
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This northern Norway city has adopted a one-of-a-kind approach to observing Shabbat
The synagogue in Trondheim is marking its 100th anniversary in 2025
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Sports He was one of the greatest Jewish soccer players who ever lived — pity you probably haven’t heard of him
Rinus Israël, who has died at 83, was the first Dutchman — and the first Jew — to lift the European Cup
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He wrote the book on American Jewish history. Stepping back from teaching, Jonathan Sarna says he has plenty of chapters still to go.
Retiring from the classroom after 50 years in academia, every journalist’s favorite Jewish historian is enjoying a victory lap
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Fast Forward Josh Shapiro’s Judaism was not why Kamala Harris snubbed him, new book claims
A tell-all describes how the war in Gaza loomed over the 2024 campaign and strained Biden’s reelection bid
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Yiddish דער ישׂראלדיקער ייִדישער טעאַטער „ייִדישפּיל“ בײַט זײַן נאָמען The Israeli Yiddish theater ‘Yiddishpiel’ changes its name
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