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After Roe: How Jewish groups in states with abortion bans are responding
Some rabbis are setting up funds to help pregnant people travel for services. Others are focusing on politics.
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Sports Lennie Rosenbluth, forefather to North Carolina hoops legends, dead at 89
He went toe-to-toe with Wilt Chamberlain and came away with the Tar Heels' first national championship
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David Weiss Halivni, pioneering and sometimes controversial Talmudist, dies at 94
Halivni was a Holocaust survivor who regarded Jewish tradition as a living thing, not a closed canon
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Jewish New Yorker once known as city’s ‘most desperate single man’ gets married
To celebrate his newfound wedded bliss, he hired people around the world to wish him mazel tov on video
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Ian Kinsler switches from Team Israel star player to coach for 2023 World Baseball Classic
The former MLB All-Star will try to help the team rebound from a disappointing Olympics in Tokyo
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Fast Forward Unilever sells Ben & Jerry’s Israeli operations, allowing West Bank sales to continue
The parent company had come under severe criticism from pro-Israel groups who said it was antisemitic to boycott Israeli settlements
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With the help of a NYC synagogue, two young Ukrainian Jewish refugees will soon marry in Israel
Yakov Poluden and Malka Bukreeva barely got along — until the war forced them to flee to Belarus and Israel.
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Her great-grandfather led Israel. She’ll be leading a congregation
A cantor steeped in Israel's history takes the pulpit in Minneapolis
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Sports The day Sandy Koufax became one of the greatest pitchers of all time
For 6 seasons, the Jewish pitcher struggled. On June 30, 1962, his eminence revealed itself.
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Nadler campaign: Defeat of ‘most senior’ Jewish House member will have ‘national implications’
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