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‘Wishing it was all a bad dream’: A family copes one year after the Mount Meron disaster
Yossi Reit, now 16, survived the crowd surge, but will likely never be the same
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‘The war has seriously crippled us’: In Ukraine, Jewish business owners persist
Three Ukrainian Jewish entrepreneurs talk about their work and faith as the Russian onslaught continues
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Analysis Joe Biden won’t budge on this make-or-break Iran deal issue, and progressives are furious
Liberal groups argue that delisting the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps from the U.S. terrorism list isn’t a big deal and are pressuring Biden to do so.
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100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2021. How should Jewish communities respond?
Overdose deaths rose 15 percent between 2020 and 2021, according to recently released federal data.
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10 Jews who died of COVID-19
As the number of American deaths from COVID-19 reaches the 1 million mark, a sample of Jewish lives lost
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The creator of ‘Faces of Covid’ calls for a better monument to the dead than his own
At the 1 million COVID-death mark, Alex Goldstein continues to tweet out obits as he contemplates immeasurable loss
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Jewish congressman calls attacks by AIPAC and other pro-Israel groups ‘ridiculous’
Meanwhile, more than 100 Jewish leaders, activists and rabbis issued a letter of support for Rep. Andy Levin in Michigan House race
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More Conservative rabbis struggle with interfaith marriage ban — and some are flouting it
Rabbis on either side of the debate say its outcome will be consequential for the movement
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Lawsuit: Camp Ramah showed ‘deliberate indifference’ to camper’s sexual assault
Ramah officials refused to remove the alleged assailant from camp until police insisted, according to the court filing
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He was the head of Christians United for Israel. Now he’s running as a Jewish candidate for Congress
David Brog is hoping his understanding of the Middle East and his advocacy for Israel will win him the primary for a House seat in Nevada
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Inside the last days of a small-town synagogue
In East Texas, the eight members of Temple Emanu-El prepare for the end
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