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Jake Tapper gave Zelenskyy matzah during Passover
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Chesa Boudin, Jewish prosecutor at fore of progressive wave, recalled in San Francisco
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For the first time, female Israeli authors outpaced males in publishing in 2021
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Moscow’s chief rabbi in exile after refusing to back Putin’s war on Ukraine, relative says
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Jewish featherweight champion Isaac ‘Ike’ Berger dead at 85
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Protests continue against Jewish conference featuring DeSantis
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Israeli heirs to the ‘Top Gun’ story sue Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement
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