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The quest to replace Park East Synagogue’s 92-year-old rabbi is not going smoothly
The incident has prompted congregants to consider whether Rabbi Yitzchok Schochet has the right temperament to lead a congregation that has hosted a succession of dignitaries
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‘We have to leave our comfort zone’: Cautious but determined, Israeli expats protest Netanyahu’s government
Israelis in America were once known to keep a low profile in Jewish communities. That sense of shame has faded
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Politics Trump’s first GOP challenger can’t say enough about his Jewish friends — and Israel
Steve Laffey professes a love for the Jewish state but questions Palestinian peoplehood
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Sports Sorry not sorry: Kyrie Irving deletes apology for sharing antisemitic movie
A fresh controversy to go with that fresh Dallas Mavericks jersey
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Soviet Jewry protest leaders in San Francisco secretly recruited help from Jews for Jesus, FBI file says
If the FBI’s intelligence is accurate, a movement that unified much of the global Jewish community relied at least to some extent on the support of a reviled group whose mission is to proselytize to Jews
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Meet the Auschwitz survivor saluted by George Santos in Congress
Some doubted her story was real. But it is, and it will break your heart
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100 years ago, Albert Einstein took his one and only trip to the holy land. This is what happened.
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist would help establish the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, now home to his archives
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A Minnesota synagogue built an ice rink — and is inaugurating it with a klezmer skate
It’s so cold that instruments are freezing up at the Twin Cities’ Klezmer on Ice festival
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Sports The college is Christian. Its point guard wears a yarmulke.
Playing basketball in an Orthodox Jewish desert hasn’t always been easy for Ze’ev Remer. That was kind of the idea.
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Politics Ready to run for president, Nikki Haley is a star in the pro-Israel community
Haley is the first candidate to challenge her former boss, Donald Trump
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Hartman Institute received major donations from U.S. billionaires funding attack on Israeli judiciary
For 10 years, the Hartman Institute received more than $25 million in donations from the CLAWS Foundation, the major financial backers of the conservative-libertarian Kohelet Policy Forum
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Culture Trump wants to honor Hannah Arendt in a ‘Garden of American Heroes.’ Is this a joke?
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Opinion A Holocaust perpetrator was just celebrated on US soil. I think I know why no one objected.
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