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After centuries out of sight, the oldest surviving Hebrew Bible is making a permanent move to Israel
The Codex Sassoon, which contains all 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, dates from the 10th century
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Politics Debate over a swing state’s presidential primary date hinges on Passover
A Democratic-supported bill to move up the primary to April 2 due to Passover faces hurdle in Pennsylvania's GOP-controlled upper chamber
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Orthodox Judaism has its first openly gay congregational rabbi. This is his story.
When a therapist proposed integrating his rabbinical and queer selves a few years ago, Rabbi Shua Brick just laughed
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Politics Democratic House candidate clarifies ‘regrettable’ tweet about McCarthy and Hasidic leaders
Mondaire Jones, a former congressman representing Rockland County, faced backlash for posting that McCarthy’s March visit to rabbi was 'waste of time'
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Canada was ashamed to have saluted a Ukrainian who fought for Hitler. But that salute didn’t come from nowhere
The fact that some Ukrainians collaborated with Nazis is no secret, but it's been whitewashed and even celebrated in Canada
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Dianne Feinstein, long-serving Jewish senator from California, dies at 90
The long-serving Jewish senator from California was a leading Democratic voice for more than three decades
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A Jewish cemetery in Belarus was destroyed by Nazis. Now its headstones are being made into a memorial.
The Jewish cemetery in Brest used to have tens of thousands of graves. Its headstones have been found in construction projects across the city
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Politics Israel, prominent in first GOP presidential debate, gets no mention in second
Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy went at it again, but this time it was about TikTok, not Israel
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Why most Asian Jews use imported etrogs on Sukkot even though their countries grow the fruit
Rabbinical authorities have long debated the authenticity of Asian etrogs — even though the fruit originated in southwest China
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Can the execution of a Jewish prisoner in Texas be stopped? Supporters are praying for a miracle
Alan Dershowitz is now involved in effort to avert execution scheduled for Oct. 10
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The New Jews of Show Low, Arizona: How a pastor parted with Jesus and led his congregation to Judaism
Twenty-one men, women and children from Richard Cortes’ formerly Messianic congregation became Jews on one day last month
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