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Loan company SoFi pulls ad after criticism that it features an antisemitic stereotype
The student-loan refinancer said it was doing so 'given the current rise in antisemitism.'
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From McConnell to McCarthy, Republican leaders criticize Trump’s dinner with Holocaust denier
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Jewish passengers booted off Lufthansa flight in May are getting $20,000 payouts
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Deeply Jewish comedy is having a moment, even as antisemitism rocks pop culture
Jewish comics are navigating a tricky social climate by leaning into their Jewishness
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Flanked by white nationalists, Kanye West claims in podcast that Jews want to ‘lock me up’
West abruptly left the studio after being challenged about his antisemitic views
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Leonard Cohen’s 1973 Yom Kippur War concerts to be dramatized in TV series by ‘Shtisel’ writer
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Jewish Trump officials distance themselves after his dinner with white supremacist
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Jewish Australian Football League draftee faces barrage of online antisemitism
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