Joshua Cohen’s satirical novel ‘The Netanyahus’ wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Cohen’s book satirizes a real-life visit to America by the future prime minister’s father.
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Brooklyn DA asked Cuomo to commute sentence for child molester in Hasidic community
The plea on behalf of Nachemya Weberman, who has only served nine years of a 50-year sentence, appears to be the only time District Attorney Eric Gonzalez intervened for someone convicted of a sex crime.
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Passengers say Lufthansa threw all visible Jews off NYC-Budapest flight because some weren’t wearing masks
A Lufthansa airline supervisor said on video that it was “the Jewish people who were the mess, who made the problems.”
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Russian shelling damages Jewish cemetery in Ukraine where pogrom victims are buried
At least 105 of the hundreds of people buried at the graveyard in Hlukhiv died in a 1918 pogrom.
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After months of delays, Israel permits American basketball player to live in the country — but only temporarily
Jared Armstrong’s temporary residency comes just after Israel awarded citizenship to a prominent soccer player and a Russian oligarch.
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Michigan Republican who shared antisemitic posts and rape comments loses safe election seat
Robert Regan, who blamed Jews for feminism and 9/11, was called “possibly the worst candidate I’ve ever seen” by a Michigan GOP staffer.
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Major figure in German Jewry ensnared in harassment scandal at liberal rabbinical school
The leave came after a leading German newspaper reported allegations against Rabbi Walter Homolka and his husband, the spokesperson for Abraham Geiger College.
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Man charged in Portland, Ore., synagogue and mosque vandalism spree
Michael Bivins had been a freelance journalist covering protests in Portland.
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US ‘strongly opposes’ Israel’s plan to expand settlements, but Biden’s visit still scheduled
Israel plans a meeting next week to advance new West Bank settlements.
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Did a New York Holocaust museum ban Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis? Depends whom you ask.
"We were told by the museum staff that Mr. DeSantis didn’t ‘align with the museum’s values and its message of inclusivity."
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Apple blocks photos of Holocaust sites from automated ‘Memories’ albums
Auschwitz and the Anne Frank House are among the places that will no longer be added automatically to Apple's 'Memories' feature.
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