Biden becomes first US president to make an appearance at the Maccabiah ‘Jewish Olympics’
The president was showered with affection by fans and athletes for showing up
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Joe Biden shook hands in Israel despite planning not to. Then a pop star left him hanging.
Yuval Dayan refrains from touching members of the opposite sex. She said she didn’t mean to offend Biden
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New York and Montreal bagel fans face off in Brooklyn, but don’t call it a competition
“Down the Bagel Hole: A Celebration of Jewish Breadways” will honor the great bagel traditions of both cities
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Ashes of around 8,000 Nazi victims found in mass grave in Poland
The 17.5 tons of human remains were discovered near the Soldau concentration camp, north of Warsaw. DNA analysis is being conducted to identify the victims
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In Jerusalem, a Torah lesson from Biden shows his grasp of Judaism’s quirky calendar
“Someone knew to do their research,” commented a onetime adviser to Israeli prime ministers
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Biden and Lapid jointly pledge to deny Iran weapons, but they diverge on the details
The “Jerusalem Declaration” is the most concrete commitment to come out of Biden’s two-day visit to Israel
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Brooklyn City Council member meets with CUNY chancellor to discuss campus antisemitism
Republican Inna Vernikov called the sit-down with Félix Matos Rodríguez “powerful and productive.”
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Biden kneels to meet with Holocaust survivors during visit to Yad Vashem
The survivors were two women who lived in the United States before moving to Israel
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‘There are a few of them’: Biden on Democrats critical of Israel
The president, arriving in the Jewish state, says ‘there's no possibility' that the party would be turning against Israel
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CUNY-affiliated group pledges to help Jews on campus ‘unlearn Zionism’
A recently published letter has drawn comparisons to ‘Soviet re-education campaigns to un-Jew the Jews’
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Biden during first stop on Israel trip: Ties between Israelis and Americans are ‘bone deep’
Biden told Israeli President Isaac Herzog “I am home,” according to Herzog’s office, and he attempted to prove it right away
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