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Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalized for suspected infection
Ron KampeasJuly 14, 2020The Jewish justice was hospitalized after “experiencing fever and chills.”
Opinion
Editorial | Another NYT departure, another blow to open debate
Jodi RudorenJuly 14, 2020Bari Weiss’s experience took place in an Opinion section undergoing a transformation during an intensely polarized period in our history.
Breaking News
Ilhan Omar’s challenger raised $3.2M this past quarter — 7 times more than she did
Molly Boigon
Breaking News
Ilhan Omar’s challenger raised $3.2M this past quarter — 7 times more than she did
Molly BoigonJuly 14, 2020Some of Melton-Meaux’s donations have come from conservative donors and pro-Israel groups like NORPAC.
National News
Rabbi who said Jews not ‘indigenous’ to Israel defended in open letter
Ari FeldmanJuly 14, 2020“Contrary to what some of Rabbi Kahn’s detractors suggest, he never said Jews lacked a strong link to the land of Israel.”
Scribe: Community voices
When a meditation is Zoom bombed
Nilmini RubinJuly 14, 2020Meditation is supposed to be grounding and calming. Intruders shouting curses and slurs are anything but.
Scribe: Community voices
Asylum is becoming nearly impossible; we can’t let it
Aaron Alexander and Lauren Holtzblatt
Scribe: Community voices
Asylum is becoming nearly impossible; we can’t let it
Aaron Alexander and Lauren HoltzblattJuly 14, 2020Fleeing Egypt taught us what it should mean to be a powerful nation with the capacity to help those who need entry or safe passage.
Opinion
Why do free speech warriors only care when conservatives are canceled?
Joel SwansonJuly 14, 2020In truth, questioning Israel’s Jewishness is far more verboten in American Jewish spaces than questioning its democracy.
Culture
In a Polish Netflix thriller, undercurrents of The Holocaust
Nathan AbramsJuly 14, 2020By moving the action of Harlan Coben’s “The Woods” from America to Poland, Netflix’s series becomes a Holocaust story.
Scribe: Community voices
Protecting the souls in an African Cemetery
Shmuel HerzfeldJuly 14, 2020Our world has enough storage units. What we need more of is respect for our holy martyrs.
Scribe: Community voices
Racial justice will drive Jewish votes in November
Halie SoiferJuly 14, 2020It’s because of our values that many Jewish voters are compelled to take action to ensure that Trump and hatred he incites are defeated in November.
Israel News
‘We’re all Amir Haskel’ say Jerusalem protesters. Who is Amir Haskel?
Ilan Ben ZionJuly 14, 2020Amir Haskel, former Israeli general, explains why he’d rather face jail than Bibi
National News
Will Rosh Hashanah 5781 come with a paywall?
Ilene PrusherJuly 14, 2020 BOCA RATON, Fla.Will Rosh Hashanah 5781 come with a paywall?
News
Orthodox organization Bonei Olam raises over $6 million for fertility treatments amid Covid
Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt
News
Orthodox organization Bonei Olam raises over $6 million for fertility treatments amid Covid
Avital Chizhik-GoldschmidtJuly 14, 2020The Haredi organization subsidizes IVF for Orthodox couples - assisting in treatments of 8,723 children to date.
Music: Israeli & Jewish Music
Woody Guthrie’s Jewish Soul And The Tale Of A Tulsa Tallis
Will Kaufman
Music: Israeli & Jewish Music
Woody Guthrie’s Jewish Soul And The Tale Of A Tulsa Tallis
Will KaufmanJuly 14, 2020A tallis? In Woody Guthrie’s Tulsa of all places?
National News
Booker: Blacks and Jews must work together to fight prejudice
Aiden PinkJuly 13, 2020Booker isn’t convinced by polls showing Biden far ahead of Trump. “I don’t know if Blacks and Jews have a corner on this, but we worry,” he said.
News
Retirement of “Redskins” recalls an earlier name change — inspired by Yitzhak Rabin
Irene Connelly
News
Retirement of “Redskins” recalls an earlier name change — inspired by Yitzhak Rabin
Irene ConnellyJuly 13, 2020The milestone move comes more than 20 years after the city’s basketball team did something similar.
World News: Breaking News From Around The World
French town famous for saving Jews in Holocaust elects mayor accused of anti-Semitism
Cnaan Liphshiz
World News: Breaking News From Around The World
French town famous for saving Jews in Holocaust elects mayor accused of anti-Semitism
Cnaan LiphshizJuly 13, 2020The election of 31-year-old Romain Lopez was part of a strong municipal elections showing for the far-right National Rally party of Marine Le Pen.
Opinion
I spent 20 years in a white church. I’m done trying to persuade people.
Issac J. BaileyJuly 13, 2020I will never stand in their redemption’s door. But I know I have no power to make them walk through it.
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