Meyers Leonard signs 10-day NBA contract, two years after he used an antisemitic slur
Leonard told ESPN he's spent two years connecting with the Jewish community
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Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Arkansas state law prohibiting contractors from boycotting Israel
The court declined to hear an appeal in the case, keeping on the books an Arkansas law requiring state contractors to sign an anti-boycott pledge
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In major step, Israeli judicial reform bill passes first parliamentary vote
The bill would give the Israeli governing coalition full control over the appointment of judges. It would also bar the Supreme Court from striking down basic laws, which are Israel’s closest parallel to a constitution
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‘I never claimed to be Jewish’: Santos suggests his false Jewish claims were a ‘party favor joke’ in new interview
Despite evidence to the contrary, Rep. George Santos now claims his grandparents survived the Holocaust by falsifying documents
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Yeshiva U. basketball team forfeits crucial game, citing inadequate warmup time after Shabbat
The forfeit means that the Y.U. Maccabees enter the postseason ranked No. 3 in their division, not No. 1 as they were last year
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‘Mind your own business,’ Israel’s Diaspora minister tells US ambassador about judicial reform urging
The Biden administration is urging the Israeli government to 'build consensus' around widely opposed proposed changes.
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Richard Belzer, comedian and Jewish TV cop for all seasons, dies at 78
Belzer played the character of John Munch in ‘Homicide: Life on the Street,’ ‘The X-Files’ and ‘Law & Order: SVU’
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Israeli airstrike kills five in Damascus, Syrian officials say
Israel has regularly carried out airstrikes in the country aimed at Iranian-backed groups or Iranian weapons transfers to its proxies
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American patron of Israeli archaeology becomes focus of New York’s antiquities trafficking unit
Shelby White, who donates to several Jewish institutions, has already relinquished at least two dozen items worth at least $20 million
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Moses Elisaf, first Jewish mayor of a city in Greece, dies at 68
He was the longtime leader of the Jewish community in Ioannina, a center of Romaniote Jewish history
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Jewish communities nationwide gather in person and online to observe Repro Shabbat
It’s the first time the Shabbat initiative is happening since the Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections in June
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