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Iowa’s Republican governor signed the bill into law last year along with other culture-war legislation targeting transgender athletes and student pronouns in schools
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Israeli soldier Amichai Oster, son of Jewish journalist, is killed in Gaza
The 24-year-old reservist rushed back to Israel from the United States after Oct. 7
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Is Alan Dershowitz going to represent Israel at the International Court of Justice?
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Passengers accuse JetBlue of antisemitism after Orthodox Jews ordered off plane
Flight crew complained that passengers who switched seats made them uncomfortable
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Claudine Gay resigns from Harvard, weeks after contentious antisemitism hearing
Gay had faced weeks of criticism and pressure from Jewish groups
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Why a reported attack on a synagogue in India is not considered antisemitic
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Politics Lauren Boebert’s Jewish rival said he scared her out of their race. What happens to him now?
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Rock star Alanis Morissette uncovers her family’s Holocaust history on PBS’ ‘Finding Your Roots’
The seven-time Grammy winner “found out that I was Jewish in my late 20s”
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Top Hamas official assassinated in Beirut, reportedly by Israel
Saleh Al-Arouri, the deputy chair of Hamas’ political bureau, was released from Israeli prison in 2010 and took up a role leading the group from abroad
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Israel’s Supreme Court strikes down Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the judiciary
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