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Germany formally classifies far-right AfD party as extremist, in blow to Nazi-linked populist movement
The nation’s spy agency can now monitor the party’s activities more thoroughly
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Jill Sobule, pop star who also composed songs for a new ‘Yentl,’ dies at 66
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The fires in Israel are under control — but debate is raging over their cause
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Argentina declassifies more than 1,800 files on Nazi escape via ‘rat-lines’ to South America
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Betar USA founder banned from World Zionist Congress over feud with Israeli firebrand Shai Davidai
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Reconstructionist leader to step down as head of movement riven by tension over anti-Zionism
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As Supreme Court considers religious charter schools, Justice Kagan speculates about publicly funded yeshivas
The court appears open to allowing the Catholic Church in Oklahoma to open the nation’s first religious public charter school
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A Jewish city attorney is going after pro-Palestinian protesters. Her Oct. 7 tweets are making it complicated.
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Kehlani responds to Cornell concert cancellation: ‘I am not antisemitic’
Some Cornell students are organizing an alternative concert in response to the cancellation
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David Horowitz, ’60s radical turned right-wing firebrand and critic of Islam, dies at 86
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