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Robert Kraft will spend $25 million running ads against antisemitism. Is this the right way to protect Jews?
The advertisements will focus on wrenching scenes of antisemitism, and highlight bystanders who intervene, but critics aren't sure the campaign will work
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They fought for Israel. They died with their lives a mystery. Now, strangers are uncovering their stories
“We have a duty to remember those who fell for the establishment of this country,” Dorit Perry said
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White supremacists are driving the increase in antisemitic incidents
While many of the leading far-right groups have lost power in recent years, antisemitic banner drops, flyering and other stunts are increasing, according to the Anti-Defamation League
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‘The gun is on the table’: Both sides of Israel’s debate say that a constitutional crisis is coming
Israelis are facing the prospect of a dramatic breakdown in their 75-year-old democracy
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Yahrzeit plaques and other mementos collected, as Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life prepares for future
Ninety-minute window on March 19 afforded community chance to retrieve items, pay respects, before building transitions
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Inside the auction house driving the rare-book craze in the Orthodox world
Booming sales at Genazym are credited to a newly affluent Orthodox community willing to spend on heritage items
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‘Not a time to be silent’: Reform Israeli rabbi and lawmaker urges American Jews to take a stand on Israel’s constitutional crisis
Gilad Kariv warns that Israel’s right-wing government has more plans to curtail democracy and religious pluralism
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Alarmed by their country’s political direction, more Israelis are seeking to move abroad
“When the whole issue of the [judicial] revolution started, we just decided not to wait and to do it immediately,” said one Israeli who is moving to Spain next month
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‘A challenge to the soul of man’: 80 years ago, Hollywood stars pleaded for Europe’s Jews
The audience at the mass memorial overflowed Madison Square Garden, the site four years earlier for a rally of American Nazis
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Sports On Team Israel, locker room talk turned to politics
It was not lost on any that protests were roiling the country they were representing at the World Baseball Classic
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How a Florida bill could hurt Jewish studies
Vague wording around critical theory could mean drastic changes for how, or if, humanities courses are taught
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