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“I think the explanation of Jewish lightning does cement it as something that we shouldn’t say,” one character says in an episode of the acclaimed series
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El Al owner used fraudulent nursing home funds to buy airline, New York A.G. Letitia James claims
James said Kenneth Rosenberg’s purchase of the Israeli airline was “made possible” by illegality
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US rejoins UNESCO, reversing Trump administration pullout over anti-Israel bias
The Biden administration has sought reentry in part because China is becoming preeminent in the organization
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Kim Kardashian cries over Kanye West’s antisemitism in upcoming ‘Kardashians’ episode
Kardashian condemned her ex-husband's alarming comments in October around the time of their divorce
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In notable stand, Israel’s ambassador to US says ‘trans rights are human rights’
Michael Herzog's unapologetic defense of LGBTQ rights, and the call to oppose "bigotry" made his speech unusually political
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Fox news agrees to $12 million settlement with Jewish former staffer
Abby Grossberg, a senior producer for ousted Fox News host Tucker Carlson, claimed rampant sexism and antisemitism
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‘And Just Like That…’ star Alexa Swinton is having her bat mitzvah in Israel
Her character was involved in one of the more prominent b'nai mitzvah scenes in TV history
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Alan Arkin, Jewish actor with uncommon versatility, dies at 89
The son of Ukrainian and German Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn won an Oscar in 2007
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USS Carl Levin is the latest US Navy ship to honor a Jewish American
Ship named for the late US senator from Michigan who was a staunch supporter of the military
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Dan Shapiro, former Ambassador to Israel, tapped as Biden administration’s Abraham Accords envoy
Shapiro will spearhead an effort to expand the number of countries normalizing relations with Israel
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Supreme Court ruling in Sabbath accommodation case has far-reaching consequences for observant Jews
Jewish groups that do not often line up on the same side of church-state issues before the court were of a single voice in this case
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