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New study of Jewish men links heart health with religious lifestyle
Israeli Haredi men had a much lower chance of dying from heart disease than their agnostic peers
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Netanyahu seeks to assuage concerns about the new government in outreach to American audiences
‘This Israel is not going to be governed by Talmudic law,’ the incoming prime minister said about his pact with Haredi and extremist parties
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Did Kanye punk Trump? NBC reports he was ‘ambushed’ into dinner with Nick Fuentes
‘It was a setup,’ an unnamed source says in an account of what went down at Mar-a-Lago
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The man who saved more Jews than Schindler
Aristides de Sousa Mendes was punished by Portugal for rescuing 10,000 Jews. But their descendants, and Israel, honor his memory
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Critic of yeshiva education promises ‘independent’ coverage of Haredi issues in new publication
Shtetl is the creation of Orthodox activist Naftuli Moster, who has clashed with Haredi leaders over education issues
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In a break with tradition, NYC council members head to Israel without their speaker
12 members are on the annual trip, sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York
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‘Shocking’ survey about antisemitic hiring based on shaky data
A poll by Resume Builder claimed that nearly one-quarter of hiring managers were antisemitic, but experts pointed to a flawed sample
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A Black writer explores how Germany remembers its ‘unthinkable’ past
Clint Smith, author of a prize-winning book about slavery and American memory, tours Holocaust memorial sites
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Michael Shafir, who played a key role in Holocaust memory in his native Romania, dies at 78
Shafir studied Holocaust denial in post-communist Europe, including in the country he fled as a teenager
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Sports I’m a Jewish teenager and I wish Israel were in the World Cup
My school is soccer-crazy. But which team am I supposed to root for?
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For an Israelite chief rabbi, a ‘mess’ of Kanye’s making
Rabbi Capers Funnye leads the largest Israelite movement in the United States. He's tired of people conflating it with extremists
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