In rare and delicate statement, Russia’s Chabad rabbis call to ‘end the suffering’
The plea comes amid praise by other clergy for the war that Vladimir Putin has vowed to continue
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Israel to measure inequality between Mizrahi and Ashkenazi Jews with new statistics
The idea that ethnic difference among Jews would disappear in the Israeli melting pot has not been borne out, experts say
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At Bergen-Belsen, an activist born in DP camp commemorate loss and life
Menachem Rosensaft, associate executive vice president of the World Jewish Congress, doesn’t remember the camp. But he says it’s where his parents “returned to being human beings” after the war
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Oakland mayoral candidate threatens Jewish community in widely distributed emails
Peter Liu called Jews “evil” and “corrupt” in an email sent to dozens of Bay Area journalists, Jewish contacts and other mayoral candidates
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Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong and Anthony Hopkins form a Jewish family in ‘Armageddon Time,’ upcoming film garnering Oscar buzz
Hopkins plays an immigrant who escaped the Holocaust in Jewish director James Gray’s latest, inspired by his New York City upbringing in the 1980s
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This High Holiday season, a Twitter ‘Repentance Bot’ wants to teach people how to apologize for real
But the bot does more than name and shame — it’s meant to help people improve the way they apologize to each other
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Jewish Democrats target independent Jews in key Senate races
‘The Jewish independent vote may actually determine the outcome of the election,’ said Halie Soifer, CEO of Jewish Democratic Council of America
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Israel advances plan to build 700 units in Jerusalem neighborhood that opponents say encroaches on Palestinian village
High-rise apartment buildings would come right up to the edge of Beit Safafa, a village that straddles Israel’s contested pre- and post-1967 lines
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Germany apologizes to Munich Massacre victims and opens research commission into events surrounding the tragedy
'The attack was followed by years of decades of silence and blocking out,' said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier
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Swedish hospital wrongfully fired doctor who complained of superior’s antisemitic bullying, court rules
The widely-covered affair that cast a spotlight on antisemitism in Sweden
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Ben & Jerry’s makes a final attempt at blocking Unilever’s sale of Israeli operations
The ice cream company filed another lawsuit to stop the sale to a local franchisee following federal court decision
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Yiddish פֿאַר וואָס הערט מען ניט וועגן דעם גלעצנדיקן וווּקס פֿון דער ישׂראל־בערזע? Why aren’t we hearing about the dramatic growth of the Israeli stock market?
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