Jacob Gurvis
By Jacob Gurvis
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News Empty chairs, mirrors and pomegranates: How Jews are bringing the Israel-Hamas war to their seder tables this Passover
Many of this year’s additions focus on women and Hamas’ reported sexual abuses on Oct. 7 and since
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Fast Forward Ken Holtzman, winningest Jewish pitcher in MLB history, dies at 78
He would later work at a local JCC and as a manager in Israel’s short-lived professional baseball league
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News How US Jewish summer camps are preparing to welcome Israeli staff — many fresh from war
The Jewish Agency for Israel is running training sessions for prospective Israeli counselors — and the American summer camps that will welcome them — to help both sides prepare for a summer in the shadow of Oct. 7
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Fast Forward The Jewish Sport Report: Enviable seasons for a Jewish NHL star and an almost-Jewish NBA star
It’s been a year of highs for Edmonton Oilers winger Zach Hyman and Sacramento Kings big man Domantas Sabonis
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News Some Jewish summer camps are facing pressure to rethink — or even fully scrap — their Israel programs
Before the war, Jewish camps were already experiencing pressure from some who said they had contributed to a sanitized picture of Israel
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Culture Jewish comedian Lena Dunham discovers her family’s Holocaust story on PBS’ ‘Finding Your Roots’
Dunham’s great-great-grandmother Regina came to America as a teenager but left behind at least 11 siblings in Europe
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Fast Forward New York Jets star Sauce Gardner says his ‘intentions were positive’ when he said that Jews ‘run the world’
Gardner said he did not know that he was echoing a common antisemitic trope
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Fast Forward Steven Spielberg decries ‘machinery of extremism’ on campus and laments Israel-Hamas war deaths at USC ceremony honoring Holocaust survivors
'We can rage against the heinous acts committed by the terrorists of Oct. 7, and also decry the killing of innocent women and children in Gaza'
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Fast Forward 2 House members lead the charge to oust the speaker. Both have been accused of trafficking in antisemitism.
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