Jewish Agency taps former IDF general Doron Almog as new head
Almog will succeed Israeli President Isaac Herzog as the agency’s executive chairman
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Jewish basketball legend Sue Bird will retire after this season
The four-time WNBA champion said she’ll wrap up her remarkable career at the conclusion of the 2022 season.
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Stephen Curry wore a Hebrew sweatshirt at the NBA Finals
The Golden State Warriors star has long had a fascination with the language and has two Hebrew tattoos.
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They set out to produce an ‘accessible’ Mishnah. The price tag: $645.
A new Oxford Annotated Mishnah makes the Oral Torah accessible— at a cost.
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Court allows German church to keep ‘Jewish pig’ sculpture on display
A one-man effort to remove a medieval anti-Jewish sculpture from public view in Germany has failed.
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WhatsApp’s reclusive founder has quietly become a megadonor to Jewish causes
Billionaire Californian Jan Koum gives to Chabad, pro-Israel causes and Jewish relief efforts in his native Ukraine.
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Israel suspends school trips to Poland, citing interference in content and security issues
The move, which affects 7,000 students this year, follows a diplomatic crisis between the two countries on how to talk about the Holocaust.
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Head of campus pro-Israel group loses Republican Congressional primary in Nevada
David Brog, a protege of the Adelsons, lost to a former military colonel.
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GOP nominee for Pennsylvania governor makes new Nazi analogy, this time about the Jan. 6 attack
Doug Mastriano implied that he sees “parallels” between the Capitol riot and the 1933 Reichstag fire through which Hitler grabbed power
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Judge: Yeshiva University must recognize LGBTQ club
The ruling requires the university to give the YU Pride Alliance 'all the privileges afforded to all other student groups'
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Florida synagogue sues over new anti-abortion law as violation of Jews’ religious rights
The state has imposed 'the laws of other religions upon Jews,' the lawsuit contends
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