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Trump to nominate Elise Stefanik, who grilled university presidents on antisemitism, as UN ambassador
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Police are still struggling to contain the fallout from a clash they say they saw coming, and that has provoked debate in the Netherlands and beyond
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‘Where are all the Jews at?’ A year after mass rally for Israel, turnout at its followup is sparse
Multiple factors could have contributed to the low turnout at the event titled “Stand Together,” which was billed by organizers as a chance to “stand with Israel” and “strengthen our Jewish unity."
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A survivor kept the key from a German synagogue destroyed on Kristallnacht. 86 years later, the relic is returning home.
An American cantor’s mother held onto the key — and her memories — after the Nazis destroyed her community
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How bad is antisemitism in Europe? Amsterdam ‘pogrom’ follows rising hostility
Israelis were attacked in Amsterdam after a Maccabi Tel Aviv vs. Ajax soccer match
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Anti-Israel protester who allegedly threatened Jewish man on the subway gets hate crime charge
Christopher Husary, 36, was indicted for allegedly threatening a Jewish man around the time of protests against an exhibit on the Nova music festival massacre
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Yechiel Leiter, American-Israeli former settler leader who lost a son in Gaza, to serve as next Israeli ambassador to US
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls Yechiel Leiter, a former settler leader who lost a son in Gaza, a “highly capable diplomat”
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