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Former baseball star Darryl Strawberry is now an evangelical preacher focused on promoting Israel
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White House officials will not attend Israel Bonds conference headed by far-right Israeli minister
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A Jewish Georgia legislator named Esther helped pass a law on antisemitism on the eve of Purim
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Six Palestinians killed in Israeli army raid in Jenin, including Hawara terrorist
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Former IDF intelligence chief warns of dire foreign policy consequences for Israel over judiciary crisis
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Biden administration to reverse Betsy DeVos-era rule on campus religious clubs
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Yiddish „מײַן זינגען אויף ייִדיש האָט גאָרנישט צו טאָן מיט נאָסטאַלגיע““My singing in Yiddish has nothing to do with nostalgia“
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