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Entering a third pandemic year, Jews see reasons to hope — and stay cautious
Julia Métraux, now 24, first started having severe fatigue and chronic pain about six years ago — symptoms that led to her eventual diagnosis with vasculitis, which involves inflammation of the blood vessels, in January 2018. She was hospitalized for a week and then bedridden for six months. Her medical needs made it necessary for…
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Activists plan to ‘celebrate and escalate’ after ADL pauses police training
For the last five years, a coalition of progressive activists have been calling on the Anti-Defamation League to stop facilitating American police training in Israel. Now they’re planning to gather at the organization’s New York City headquarters Tuesday night to celebrate a win: according to an ADL memo leaked to the media last week, the…
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A pro-Israel progressive aims to unseat Rep. Carolyn Maloney — on his third try
Suraj Patel, a self-described “pragmatic progressive,” came within four points of beating longtime U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney in their last primary battle. In their third matchup, Patel says he aims to appeal to a broad array of Maloney voters, including centrists who think, after 30 years, she has had enough time in Washington. He’s still…
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Orthodox groups launch uphill battle against daylight saving time bill
Orthodox advocacy groups are launching a longshot bid to stall a bipartisan bill that would make daylight saving time permanent across the nation. In a letter expected to be sent to congressional leaders on Monday, an advanced copy which was obtained by the Forward, the Orthodox Union warned that the bill, which was passed by…
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Israeli lawmaker wants to see his country join united front against Russia
Israel should take a strong stand in the global community’s united front against the Russian assault on Ukraine, said Nir Barkat, a member of Israel’s Knesset, who is on a diplomatic tour in the U.S. He also sees current events as an opportunity to lobby the American people against concessions to Iran. Barkat, 62, is…
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Younes Nazarian, an Iranian Jewish philanthropist who galvanized Israel support, dies at 91
Younes Nazarian, an Iranian-Jewish community leader and self-made billionaire philanthropist, died March 18 in Los Angeles. He was 91. Local Iranian-Jewish community members remembered Nazarian as a pro-Israel advocate who gave millions to organizations in Israel as well as to Jewish and non-Jewish causes in Southern California. “He truly believed that strengthening Israel was the…
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Jewish leaders are flocking to Ukraine’s border. Some question the trips.
American Jewish leaders and organizations are traveling to Ukraine’s borders on missions to witness first-hand the largest refugee crisis since World War II. It’s part of a larger Jewish effort to help feed, clothe and shelter Ukrainians in neighboring countries. But the delegations of rabbis and other Jewish leaders visiting the region has sparked some…
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Reform movement staff call for ‘urgent action’ on sexual harassment report
More than 500 current and former employees of the Union for Reform Judaism have signed a letter criticizing its response to a February report detailing a history of sexual harassment at summer camps and other institutions run by the organization. “We await–with high expectations and limited patience–a concrete plan and public timeline for institutional review…
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Purim in Wartime: Bucharest celebration brings haunting past into present
BUCHAREST — It was fitting, somehow, that on Purim, the holiday where up is down and down is up, the only Ukrainian refugee I could find among the 200 people attending Wednesday night’s megillah reading at the Choral Temple in Romania’s capital was a Moroccan Jew from Marakkesh. Zakaria Maarif, who is 23, spent the…
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The harassers are loud. The Women of the Wall choir aims to be louder.
A battle of acoustics is playing out at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, the holiest place in the world for Jews. Traditionalists believe the Torah forbids women from singing in public — even at the Wall’s women’s section — and those who dare sing are often harassed. “People come with hundreds of whistles to drown out our…
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Why some Holocaust survivors mourn Ukraine, while others support Putin.
When the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, Roza Nemirovskaya, then 16 years old, was forced to flee her hometown Ternivka in western Ukraine before hundreds of Jews were slaughtered and buried in a mass grave. Not in her worst nightmare, she said, could she have imagined another devastating war in her homeland during her lifetime….
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