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To rousing applause, Harris condemned Hamas and the atrocities of Oct. 7
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A spokesman for Uncommitted later said that DNC officials came out of the convention center several times to see if they could arrive at a compromise
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For the first time in two decades, a sports video game gets a Jewish cover athlete. Or three.
Quinn, Jack and Luke Hughes will grace the cover of the 2025 edition of EA Sports’ popular NHL video game.
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At Camp Ramah in Ukraine, sports and Jewish traditions are an escape from war
This year, fewer Ukrainian men came to camp, to avoid forced conscription. A teen from Chicago volunteered instead
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From protest skits to full-time surveillance, universities and Jewish groups hope to change the campus climate as the school year begins
Schools are improvising different ways to keep Jewish students safe as campus protests seem likely to continue
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Politics What Jewish Democrats hope Harris will say in her DNC acceptance speech
'People are so excited that it's not a death march to an election defeat,' said Maryland delegate Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi
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One-third of college students are hostile to Jews or Israel, Brandeis U study finds
The study found that smaller slivers of students held both kinds of beliefs
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Politics Harris campaign says Trump ‘denigrates American Jews’ as war of words over Jewish voters escalates
Trump called Josh Shapiro “the highly overrated Jewish Governor” of Pennsylvania although Shapiro did not touch on his Jewish identity or Israel in his speech
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