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Zeldin pans New York’s response to antisemitism, but carefully times criticism of Hochul
‘I am here today as a proud Jew,’ Lee Zeldin, the Republican nominee for New York governor, said on visit to the Crown Heights Jewish community
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First Person 34 years ago I left Ukraine because it was no place for Jews. I’m not ready to leave again.
‘I swore I would never set foot in the country again. Yet here I am,’ writes Helen Chervitz
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Ken Burns’ PBS documentary ‘The U.S. And The Holocaust’ asks hard questions about how Americans treated Jews and immigrants during wartime
Working with top historians, Burns and his co-directors cover some surprising territory in their retelling of the American response
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Sports Mark Spitz made Olympic history in 1972. Here’s why his Jewish identity mattered in Munich
He won 7 gold medals for swimming. A day after his final race, the Munich massacre unfolded
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Jewish Israelis are heading to Arabic class — and learning a bit more about Palestinians
‘I thought it was absurd that Jews don’t know Arabic and lots of people agreed with me,’ said Gilad Sevitt, who developed a popular online course to teach it
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First Person What I learned about swimming — and life — from an Israeli who survived the Munich massacre
Avraham Melamed, now 78, looks back on what happened in the Olympic Village 50 years ago
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Amid water crisis, the only synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, makes bat mitzvah disaster plans
As residents of Jackson must boil all running water for safety, the Jewish community continues to hold services
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He captured rare images of Jewish life in Iran. Then he fled, fearing for his safety.
Former AP photographer Hassan Sarbakhshian talks about his nearly-15-year saga to publish the project
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Josh Shapiro traces bid for Pennsylvania governor to his childhood work for Soviet Jews
In an interview, Shapiro says this is the first time a Republican opponent, Doug Mastriano, presents an ‘existential threat’ to democracy
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50 years after the Munich Olympics massacre, families of the slain continue to grieve — and remember
‘I’m always grateful for every day, because those are days he never had,’ said Barbara Berger, whose brother was killed in the massacre
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As Yeshiva University fights to block LGBTQ group, not all its grad schools are on board
Some of the Orthodox university’s more progressive graduate programs may be rooting for its Supreme Court petition to fail
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