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This trolling website targeted transgender people, Jews and the disabled. Here’s how it fell
'This was a website whose entire purpose was to cause people to die,' said Yonah Gerber, a target of Kiwi Farms.
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Supreme Court’s only Jewish member warns of judges ‘undermining their own legitimacy’
Elena Kagan, speaking at a synagogue, discussed her ‘quasi-bat mitzvah,’ Chinese food on Christmas — and concerns about ‘politics’ on the high court
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Books ‘Shabbat Shalom and Sayonara’: Loyalists tried to oust Kushner via Shabbat meeting with Trump
Former White House advisor Peter Navarro details in new book an effort to replace Jared Kushner with Steve Bannon as head of the 2020 campaign amid dismal polling
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Sports Meet the American Jewish goalie who will try to stop the great Messi
Maccabi Haifa snuck into the Champions League. Its reward: Facing one of the greatest soccer teams ever assembled
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Sports Back from war, Hank Greenberg took a hard swing for the pennant
In the midst of the 2022 pennant races, a look back at a particularly compelling one in 1945
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Did Nazis make these Jewish women infertile?
New academic research suggests female Auschwitz prisoners may have been given hormones in their soup
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Books An urgent call during Kol Nidre: The time this top prosecutor had to work on Yom Kippur
Geoffrey Berman, the former U.S. Attorney who was fired by Donald Trump, was in synagogue when a prosecutor called to ask whether Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman should be arrested
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Who runs the largest Jewish federations? Not women.
Women run nearly half of North America's 150 federations, but men control almost all those in the largest cities — and 73% of the system’s $9 billion in assets
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All the Jewish NFL players to watch this season
From the starters to the free agents hoping to return to action soon
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In Vermont, Becca Balint is running for Congress with the hope (and wariness) of a second-generation Holocaust survivor
If she is elected, the anti-BDS progressive will arrive with an ethos defined by the Holocaust to an extent not seen since Tom Lantos, the only survivor elected to Congress
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This Holocaust survivor and Brazilian swimming champion is still competing at 98
Nora Tausz Ronai, who started swimming competitively at age 69, has become an inspiration to athletes young and old for more than their physical accomplishments
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