Conservative rabbis endorse use of electric cars on Shabbat, but divisions over driving remain
The vote was 10 in favor, six against, five abstained.
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Pickleball, America’s fastest-growing sport, is a hit at Jewish camps and sports tournaments
Numerous Jewish camps around the U.S. have added pickleball to their offerings
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Rabbis, monks and bats: A religion scholar and a zoologist find a new way to map early Jewish-Christian relations
A method used to study Egyptian fruit bats help two scholars understand the connections between the Talmud and Christian writings
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Opponents of Israel’s judicial overhaul see parallels in Tisha B’Av, this week’s Jewish day of mourning
As Tisha B’Av approaches, some protesters of the recent law weakening the judiciary fear that it could lead to another catastrophe
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Israel’s Supreme Court will hear challenge to law limiting its power, potentially teeing up constitutional crisis
The court said it would not freeze the law while it waits to hear arguments against it
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RFK Jr. on the people to blame for COVID: ‘We know who they were and they weren’t Jewish’
Kennedy also denounced antisemitism while defending his record on the Jews in an event organized by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
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Comedian Alex Edelman is ‘very dismayed’ by Israel’s vote to cut judicial power
There ‘is a minority bloc subverting the will of the people,’ he says after Broadway performance
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White House blasts Fox News host’s claim that ‘you had to be useful’ in death camps
A White House rebuke of Greg Gutfeld is a signal of how fraught culture wars are figuring large in the political landscape
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Jewish fencer Eli Dershwitz becomes first US man to win sabre World Championship
The 27-year-old two-time Olympian is the grandson of Holocaust survivors
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Miriam Adelson slashed her philanthropy as casinos closed due to Covid. Now, her business empire is recuperating
The family’s charitable trust, which funnels money into the Adelson Family Foundation, dropped from more than $200 million before the pandemic to $37 million in 2021
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Richard Barancik, last of the ‘Monuments Men’ who recovered art and treasure looted by the Nazis, dies at 98
The 20-year-old volunteer, later a renowned architect, was awed by the experts in fine art who led the recovery corps
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