Meet the 6 Jewish baseball players selected in the 2024 MLB Draft
From a College Baseball World Series breakout star to a Siberian-born slugger, these are the Jewish players selected in this week’s MLB Draft
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Republicans cheer Shabbos Kestenbaum, Harvard grad who is suing school over post-Oct. 7 antisemitism
As he prepared to take the stage at the Republican convention, Kestenbaum said he felt lonely in the party
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Peter Buxton, whistleblower who compared Tuskegee syphilis study to Nazi atrocities, dies at 86
Born in Czechoslovakia to a Jewish father and Catholic mother, he sounded the alarm on an unethical study of Black men
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Democratic Party platform boosts Israel funding, blames Hamas for war
The language should allay concerns among some pro-Israel groups alarmed at the increase in calls among some Democrats to suspend aid to Israel, but it will likely not put the matter to rest
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Delta banned Palestinian flag pins — now flight attendants are pushing back
Delta, which instituted a new rule allowing only U.S. flag pins, is the latest airline to find itself mired in a controversy related to the Israel-Hamas war
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Adam Schiff calls on Biden to drop out of 2024 presidential race
One of California’s most prominent Democrats, Schiff cited "serious concerns" about Biden's ability to beat Trump
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Jewish Emmy nominees include Larry David and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ in a last hurrah
Hannah Einbinder, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Paul Rudd were nominated for supporting roles in a comedy series
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Kobe Bryant’s late father Joe once coached a Jewish day school’s girls basketball team
Joe Bryant, a former NBA player who died Monday, was remembered as a gentle giant by people who knew him at the former Akiba Hebrew Academy in Philadelphia
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Jerusalem Youth Chorus advances on ‘America’s Got Talent’ with performance of ‘Home’
“You made something very complicated beautiful through friendship,” Simon Cowell told the Israeli and Palestinian singers
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Neo-Nazi known as ‘Commander Butcher’ charged for attempting to poison Jewish children in New York City
Michail Chkhikvishvili, a leader of a white supremacist group, was indicted on four counts at the federal Eastern District Court of New York in Brooklyn
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Russia sentences Jewish writer Masha Gessen to prison in absentia for comments on Ukraine war
Gessen joins a growing list of Jewish writers targeted by Russia over the war
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