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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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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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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Biden tasks eight cabinet departments with extending civil rights protections to victims of antisemitism
The White House rolls out a broad expansion of the landmark Civil Rights Act, part of Joe Biden’s strategy to combat antisemitism
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Elon Musk to join Ben Shapiro and other Jewish men for live chat on antisemitism and free speech
Ten Jewish men, Musk 'and a Hava Nagila sing-off!' — per Musk’s tweet — are on the lineup
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Politics Israel, prominent in first GOP presidential debate, gets no mention in second
Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy went at it again, but this time it was about TikTok, not Israel
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Trump frustrated when told he couldn’t leverage US aid to Israel for peace deal, book claims
‘I was told there’s no connection,’ the former Republican president gasped during a dinner with American journalists in 2017
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Canadian university to return donation from family of man who served in Nazi unit
Yaroslav Hunka’s sons created a fund in their parents’ honor in 2019 for research related to leaders of Ukrainian Catholic Church
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