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‘I am a Zionist’: 5 key moments in Joe Biden’s relationship with Israel
Since 1973, Biden has traveled to Israel 9 times and met with 10 Israeli prime ministers
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What ‘Biden’s rabbi’ thinks of the president’s Israel visit this week
Rabbi Michael Beals and President Joe Biden go back a long way, and the Delaware-based faith leader is ‘over-the-moon’ excited about the president’s visit to Israel.
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Sports Two Jewish players to appear in MLB All-Star game
The National League hasn't won in a decade. Joc Pederson and Max Fried will try to change that
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Sports When almost nobody else would, Hank Greenberg backed a Black player fighting for free agency
Fifty years ago, the Jewish Hall of Famer testified on behalf of Curt Flood, whose stand against MLB’s reserve clause made him a key figure in athletic activism
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New poll: Israelis have confidence in Biden, but less than they had in Trump
The Pew survey, conducted ahead of Biden’s visit to Israel, also shows that Israelis are more likely to hold favorable view of the US than Americans hold of Israel
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Trump’s Mideast peace envoy sees his fingerprints on Israel’s improved ties with Arab countries
Jason Greenblatt, a former longtime lawyer to Donald Trump, said he’s pleased to see Biden 'acting more cautiously' on the Palestinian issue and focusing on expanding the Abraham Accords
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Sports At World Baseball Classic, Israel will need all the Jewish muscle it can muster
They're in a 'pool of death' with some Latin American powerhouses
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‘We knew he was aggressive’: Highland Park activist recalls encounters with alleged shooter
Rachael Wachstein said he shoved and cursed people at a pro-Trump rally two years ago
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Meet the Israeli who wants to rename Ben & Jerry’s Chunky Monkey ‘Judea and Samaria’
After buying Ben & Jerry's Israel for peanuts, Avi Zinger claims he 'can do what he wants' - and that includes selling ice cream in the West Bank. Following the deal, Ben & Jerry's sued its parent company, Unilever
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‘The nicest person I’ve ever met’: Friends and family remember Katherine Goldstein, lost in Highland Park shooting
Goldstein, 64, was an avid bird-watcher, devoted mother and adventurous traveler
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‘A much more dangerous world’: A gathering of Highland Park Jews contemplates the July 4 massacre
Jews who spent most of their lives in the city try to make sense of the violence, and come to terms with a broken bubble of security
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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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Fast Forward Columbia staff receive texts asking if they’re Jewish, as government hunts antisemitic harassment on campus
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Fast Forward Why the Antisemitism Awareness Act now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements
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News At Harvard, reports on antisemitism and anti-Palestinian bias reflect campus conflict over Israel
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Opinion Is JB Pritzker’s very Jewish toughness the key to fighting Trump?
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