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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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How a Jewish legislator’s vote legalized abortion in New York in 1970
George Michaels couldn’t face his family on Passover if the bill failed. His last-minute ‘yes’ was the deciding vote.
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Jewish congressman from Highland Park is ‘holding on to the anger’ to act on gun control
Brad Schneider, a moderate Democrat from Ilinois, said he’s ‘hopeful’ that members of Congress will join forces to ban assault weapons
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Music ‘No matter what, I will always be a Jew.’ Billy Joel opens up about his family’s Holocaust history
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Nazi collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Poland
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Nazi collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Mexico
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