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Tree of Life sentencing starts, Hollywood mogul testifies at Netanyahu corruption trial, Germany opens largest Jewish center since the Holocaust, and how 'Fiddler on the Roof' inspired an Indian director.
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Forwarding the News Many Jews to observe yahrtzeit of the fall of ‘Roe’ this Shabbat
Moms group quotes Hitler in newsletter, red-state rabbi leaving over anti-LGBTQ+ laws, minyan prays at Grateful Dead concert, and Dr. Ruth shares the best advice she ever got in our podcast.
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Forwarding the News Swastika Lake to be renamed + Relative of Jewish Titanic couple aboard missing submersible
Zelenskyy calls Putin 'the second king of antisemitism after Hitler,' judge to reveal Santos’ mystery bail backers, Harry Styles thanks Orthodox friends, and 'Jeopardy!' contestant can't ID shul near his home.
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Forwarding the News What Jewish texts have to say about the search for the Titanic submersible
Israeli settlers riot in West Bank after Palestinian attack kills four, school district returns bibles to libraries, prison system bans computer manual but allows 'Mein Kampf,' and introducing Yiddish yoga.
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Forwarding the News An aspiring Jewish lawyer is in the NBA draft – and he’s never played basketball
Jewish man shatters window in Last Supper room, teacher resigns after antisemitic harassment from 6th grader, more RFK Jr. Nazi comparisons discovered, and the preacher who sermonized in Yiddish.
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Forwarding the News You’re more likely to find a live kidney donor in Israel than anywhere else. Here’s why.
Four Palestinians killed in clashes, a Jewish take on Juneteenth, rabbi relives worst day of her life, FBI arrests teen for planning mass shooting targeting Jews & Anne Frank book lands on bestseller list.
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“You come for a reason, and then you stay,” said Rita Gann, one among a handful of volunteers keeping breakfast and kaddish going at Temple Emanuel
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Forwarding the News Gay Haredi TikTok star revealed as fraud + Pittsburgh jury deliberating
Airline sorry for welcoming passengers to 'Palestine,' Sicily gets first rabbi in 500 years, the secret inspiration for 'Yentl,' and is Elon Musk America's most dangerous antisemite? Find out in our podcast
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Forwarding the News Does Wikipedia distort the Holocaust? + Tree of Life verdict may come today
Germany to pay $1.4 billion in Holocaust reparations next year, school board may ban 'Maus,' what a Broadway musical has to do with a famous rabbi's son, and the secret Jewish history of the Magna Carta.
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Forwarding the News The untold story of how the Nazis targeted trans people + Compromise talks break down in Israel
Why neo-Nazis are picketing Disney World, prosecution to rest in Tree of Life trial, Anne Frank adaptation called pornographic, and the Talmud is apparently more popular than Ed Sheeran.
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Yiddish אַ רעפֿעראַט אויף ייִדיש אין מינכן פֿונעם ליטעראַטור־פֿאָרשער נתן כּהן A Yiddish lecture in Munich by literature scholar Nathan Cohen
די „שלום־עליכם לעקציע“ וועט מען קענען הערן אויפֿן אָרט אָדער דורך דער אינטערנעץ.
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