Fred Manasse, physicist, sculptor and voice for fellow Holocaust survivors, dies at 86
Manasse, who was rescued as a young child on a Kindertransport, went on to become a stalwart leader on behalf of Boston’s Holocaust survivors.
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State Supreme Court sides with mother in dispute over son’s yeshiva education
A new ruling directs the city and state to finish their probe of how secular subjects are taught at a Williamsburg yeshiva.
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Buffalo Republican: Hitler is ‘the kind of leader we need today’
Carl Paladino, a Congressional candidate in New York, endorsed the German leader’s charisma during a 2021 radio appearance
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Folk band Big Thief won’t play in member’s native Israel, days after defending concerts there
The Tel Aviv venue where the band was slated to play called them “spineless.”
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Gov. DeSantis to speak at Chelsea Piers on Sunday following Jewish museum flap
The Jewish Leadership Conference will also feature Mark Meadows, Bari Weiss and other conservatives.
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Doug Emhoff spoke to a Holocaust survivor — and his AI twin — at a cutting-edge exhibit in Los Angeles
The Jewish Second Gentleman spoke twice with a Holocaust survivor, once virtually by Zoom and once through AI.
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5 Jewish questions about the Jan. 6 committee hearings, answered
Remember the Proud Boys, and how the riot pushed Jared and Ivanka away from President Trump? The hearings could have it all on primetime TV.
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Jake Tapper gave Zelenskyy matzah during Passover
The CNN anchor joked about his experience in Ukraine — and how the Ukrainian president wasn’t so amused by the matzah — on “The Late Night with Stephen Colbert.”
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Chesa Boudin, Jewish prosecutor at fore of progressive wave, recalled in San Francisco
Boudin’s outlook was informed by his experience as the child of Jewish radicals who spent decades in prison.
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For the first time, female Israeli authors outpaced males in publishing in 2021
Among the notable releases was “Strangers,” a bestselling novel of female friendship by Lihi Lapid, who is married to Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid.
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Moscow’s chief rabbi in exile after refusing to back Putin’s war on Ukraine, relative says
Pinchas Goldschmidt, who was briefly kicked out of Russia in 2005, is generally tight lipped about politics.
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