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Omar pushes back against McCarthy as opposition to remove her from key House panel grows
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is seeking to oust her from the influential House Foreign Affairs Committee over past comments on Israel
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This Israeli village on the Lebanon border was isolated for decades. Now it’s a tourist hotspot.
Ghajar, home to Israel’s only Alawite Muslim community, was considered until last fall a closed-off military zone
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Sports How to watch Team Israel at the World Baseball Classic
Israel's baseball team will play four games in Miami from March 12-15
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Comedian Modi Rosenfeld is a mainstay for Orthodox audiences. He’s also gay. So what?
'Being gay, you can keep Shabbos, you can keep kosher,' Rosenfeld said. “You can keep anything you want to do.'
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Kirsten Gillibrand returns from Israel ‘optimistic’ about Netanyahu’s plan for Mideast peace
‘I think the Jewish community in New York expects that I'm a leader on issues related to Israel,’ the U.S. senator said in an interview
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At the UN, a ‘Book of Names’ invites visitors to touch the names of more than 4.8 million Jewish Holocaust victims
The idea is "to connect physically with their memories," said Simmy Allen, of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Israel which created the exhibit
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A Jewish reporter goes inside Rikers for a new book on a notorious jail
Reuven Blau co-wrote “Rikers: An Oral History” with New York Daily News reporter Graham Rayman
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This young American couple had Scotland’s first-ever queer Jewish wedding
Han Smith and Jennifer Andreacchi had been Jewish for just weeks when they became the first LGBTQ Jews to wed in Scotland
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Founded by New York social workers, this non-profit rescues Israeli youth from suicide, prostitution and despair
Founded by a group of social workers on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, ELEM now serves 12,500 Israeli youth a year, both Jewish and Arab
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Books In new book, Pompeo accuses Netanyahu of spreading false rumor for political gain
In preview of a 2024 GOP primary, Pompeo unleashes on Nikki Haley, downplaying her Israel bona fides
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Meet the real Jewish Republican being floated to replace George Santos, the fake one
Mazi Melesa Pilip started advocating for others when she was 12 and just arrived in Israel from Ethiopia, and she hasn’t stopped
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