Hold onto your hummus: Global chickpea supply could drop 20% this year
A combination of Russia’s war in Ukraine, poor weather and transportation issues is leading to the shortage.
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American rabbi convicted of sexually assaulting students is granted residency status in Israel
Advocates for victims of Baruch Lanner are aghast that Israel would consider his request for citizenship.
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Libs of TikTok is now targeting a Jewish summer camp
The social media account usually goes after public schools and influencers. Now they’re going after Camp Ramah for its policies towards LGBTQ youth.
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Boris Johnson’s Jewish moments, from a broken menorah to a change in Israel-UN policy
Despite his penchant for making headlines, even within the Jewish community, Johnson does not leave behind a very consequential legacy for British Jews
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Ukraine says it will not allow in Uman pilgrims for Rosh Hashanah
Ukraine’s ambassador to Israel exhorted Jews to pray for the war to end, but not to make their annual pilgrimage to Rabbi Nachman’s grave.
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Historic Welsh synagogue gets over $600,000 to reopen as cultural center
The infusion goes toward making the first museum about the history of Jews in Wales a reality
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Reform, Conservative leaders plead with Lapid to confront harassment of non-Orthodox Jews at Western Wall
‘We believe you have attained this position for just such a crisis,’ the heads of the Reform and Conservative movements write in a letter to the new Israeli prime minister
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Democrat Josh Shapiro boasts Republican Jewish support in close race for Pennsylvania governor
10 former and current Republican state officials called Doug Mastriano, the GOP nominee for governor, ‘extreme’ and ‘dangerous’
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‘Great British Bake Off’ host Matt Lucas discovers his family member lived with Anne Frank’s family
While the Jewish comic actor had been told that some of his family died in Nazi camps, he didn’t know any specific names or stories
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Exiled from Russia, Pinchas Goldschmidt is formally out as Moscow’s chief rabbi after 29 years
An influential spiritual leader in much of Europe, he had left Russia following its invasion of Ukraine
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New York jeweler reports precious Torah stolen at Venetian hotel in Las Vegas
Jack Abraham offers a $10,000 reward for return of a scroll that has traveled with him on business for years
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