Former rabbinical students complain to Conservative movement about sexism at seminary
Letter to Rabbinical Assembly’s ethics committee describes culture of harassment alienating women and queer students
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Risk of hate crimes against Jews and others could rise as 2024 election nears, report says
The authors called on social media companies to deplatform extremists and for Congress to mandate reporting hate crime data
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At Holocaust museum, a million victims are still nameless
A new installation at Yad Vashem records the names of 4.8 million Holocaust victims on large pages that let visitors search for lost family members. The work is still underway to add new names and fix errors
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‘It’s our home too’: Jews of color delegation readies for first national federation trip to Israel
The New York Jewish federation has sponsored such a trip but this is the first for the Jewish federations nationally
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Israel concedes to ‘disturbing’ demand by Poland: Students should visit memorials to murderers of Jews
Experts slam it as ‘a dream come true for Holocaust deniers’ that glorifies ‘Poles who were involved up to their necks in the murder of Jews’
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Ambassador Lipstadt’s hopes for Passover 2024: The fight against antisemitism ‘will be a little bit easier and possibly more successful’
Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, said in an interview that combating antisemitism requires ordinary people speaking out
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#FreeEvan movement takes off on social media for American Jewish reporter jailed in Russia
Sharansky and Griner speak out; photos of Seder plates set for Evan Gershkovich abound, echoing the movement to free Soviet Jews
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4 decades later, new trial of alleged 1980 Paris synagogue bomber offers victims opportunity for closure
'This is a gaping wound for the Jewish community and here in France people remember this horrible attack,' a historian said
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Sports How Ron Blomberg made me care about baseball again (if only for one night)
At Yankee Stadium, MLB's first designated hitter brought back a desperately needed enthusiasm
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Embodying a story of trauma and liberation, Ukrainian Jews celebrate Passover amid a new normal
Children at Kharkiv’s Jewish school traveled with their families to Kyiv for a Passover celebration free from the fear of shelling
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A new Conservative Jewish Passover policy taps into the booming gluten-free market
One rule instituted as a COVID provision by the Conservative movement is becoming permanent: Before Passover begins, Jews may buy certified kosher products that have kosher-for-Passover ingredients and are certified gluten-free and oat-free — even if they aren’t explicitly certified kosher for Passover
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