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An avowed Holocaust denier is running for school board in Minnesota
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NY Rep. Jamaal Bowman condemns his team for recommending calling GOP reps ‘Nazis’
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Poor and working-class Jews are underrepresented in pop culture, new analysis argues
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Israeli minister holds Sukkot prayer service in Saudi Arabia amid warming ties
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Displaced by ethnic violence, India’s Bnei Menashe Jews construct sukkahs nonetheless
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10,000 people sign Christian group petition condemning Elon Musk’s ADL attacks
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USPS releases Ruth Bader Ginsburg stamp, 3 years after Jewish Supreme Court justice’s death
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Drew Weissman, Jewish immunologist, wins Nobel Prize for his work on Covid vaccines
Weissman shared the prize with Katalin Kariko, his Hungarian-born research partner at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Israeli government cuts support to mental health organizations by 70%
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