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U.S. Jewish groups face major dilemma as Israeli far right gains in election polls
In 2019, America’s Jewish establishment raised the alarm on Benjamin Netanyahu legitimizing the most extreme forces in Israeli politics. Three years on, with Itamar Ben-Gvir on the verge of power, their silence is deafening
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The ancient Jewish practice of hakhel, an every-7-years gathering, gets a 21st-century revival
Jews are commanded to hear the Torah recited by the king at the Temple. What happens when neither of those exists?
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In Arizona’s race for attorney general, questions of ballot integrity and antisemitism
Kris Mayes is challenging Republican Abraham Hamadeh, who has refused to apologize for past antisemitic posts
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Nazi monuments removed amid ongoing Forward investigation
Virginia, Bosnia, Belgium and Australia have renamed streets or taken down statues honoring collaborators
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Sports Playing rugby in Israel is unusual enough. So what’s it like for a Druze woman?
'They're not used to females with muscles,' says Kamar Halabi, the sole non-Jew on Israel's national women's rugby team
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Sports Team Israel was ‘miracle team’ of the last World Baseball Classic. Check out the roster for the next one.
In contrast to the 2017 team, Team Israel 2023 will feature several current major leaguers
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The nationalists win in Quebec again, disconcerting many of the province’s Jews
The party that prohibited some civil servants from wearing yarmulkes won in a landslide
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Meet Ambassador Lipstadt’s second-in-command, once dubbed the ‘Orthodox political wunderkind’
Aaron Keyak, the State Department's deputy antisemitism envoy, is on a monthlong trip to the Middle East to discuss global antisemitism and tolerance
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The last schnitzel: End of an era for Israel’s famed Penguin restaurant
In town founded by Jews fleeing Hitler, The Penguin is among the last public vestiges of Nahariya’s German roots
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Books ‘He sounds like a child’: What Trump really thought of Kushner, and more highlights from Maggie Haberman’s new book
Former President Donald Trump often diminished and mocked Jared Kushner despite giving him an outsized role in the White House, the tell-all book claims
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Why go to one synagogue service when you can go to many? Congregants confess their love of virtual shul hopping
Now Jews can daven across time zones and denominations, checking out services at multiple congregations over the course of a few hours
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