Alice Shalvi, trailblazing Israeli feminist and educator, dies at 96
Shalvi founded the Israel Women's Network and was awarded the Israel Prize for her lifetime of achievement
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Israeli government cuts support to mental health organizations by 70%
The funding cuts will hurt roughly 15 organizations that played an important role during COVID, but with the coronavirus pandemic gone the Health Ministry says it no longer has the need to fund them
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San Francisco Giants fire Jewish manager Gabe Kapler after disappointing season
Kapler won the 2021 National League Manager of the Year award after leading the Giants to a 107-win season
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A NYC exhibit explores the etrog’s journey around the Jewish world
"Etrog: The Wandering Fruit" is now on view at the Bernard Museum of Judaica, located inside Temple Emanu-El on the Upper East Side
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Flash floods put a dangerous damper on the first night of Sukkot in NYC
The holiday that starts Friday night is meant to be celebrated outside. But rain has triggered a state of emergency
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In Chicago, a Black-led church and a Jewish community are addressing painful history through a Sukkot festival
The Chicago Sukkah Design Festival aims to build connections between the predominantly Black West Side community of Lawndale and the city’s Jewish community — which was once centered in that neighborhood
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A chance discovery connected US soccer star Matt Turner to his Jewish roots
The U.S. men's national team goalie reflects on finding his great-grandmother's emigration papers, a moment that changed his relationship to his own identity
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Ted Deutch left Congress to head a Jewish organization. Can he find the ‘nuance’ that he seeks?
'We do not have the luxury of picking and choosing which antisemites we’d like to focus on,' Deutch said
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85 years after Kristallnacht, Germany to begin rebuilding grand synagogue in Hamburg
'The Bornplatz Synagogue will rise again and become a monument of remembrance, serving as the visible center for the vibrant Jewish life in our city,' Rabbi Shlomo Bistrizky said
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Elon Musk: I’m not antisemitic, I’m ‘aspirationally Jewish’
He also claimed, despite evidence to the contrary, that antisemitism has dropped on Twitter since he bought it
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Man in Peru charged with making recent bomb threats to US synagogues, FBI says
The charges related to 150 threats in just one week in September, only a portion of those synagogues have received
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