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Attorney General Merrick Garland invokes Holocaust history at immigration ceremony
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Yeshiva University suspends all student clubs after SCOTUS denies its request to block LGBTQ group
In an email to students, the Orthodox school says it is now taking steps to follow 'the roadmap provided by the US Supreme Court to protect YU's religious freedom'
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Germany’s public broadcaster mandates that all employees support Israel’s right to exist
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Former Trump adviser Michael Flynn likened MAGA voters to Holocaust victims
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PA governor race: Mastriano attacks Shapiro for going to Jewish day school
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Fake toes for sale? An ad aimed at Orthodox women provokes questions about modesty rules gone too far
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University of Vermont ‘vigorously denies’ fostering an antisemitic environment on campus, amid federal investigation
The school’s president, in a forceful statement, rejected the main tenets of the antisemitism complaint
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A new documentary, ‘Four Winters,’ recounts the hell and fury of Jewish partisans who fought the Nazis
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Capitol rioter who wore ‘Camp Auschwitz’ sweatshirt sentenced to 75 days in prison
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