Playing rugby in Israel is unusual enough. So what’s it like for a Druze woman?
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Nazi monuments removed amid ongoing Forward investigation
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The nationalists win in Quebec again, disconcerting many of the province’s Jews
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The last schnitzel: End of an era for Israel’s famed Penguin restaurant
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Books ‘He sounds like a child’: What Trump really thought of Kushner, and more highlights from Maggie Haberman’s new book
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Why go to one synagogue service when you can go to many? Congregants confess their love of virtual shul hopping
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In the path of Hurricane Ian, rabbis open their homes and safeguard Torahs
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Sports Sandy Koufax wouldn’t play on Yom Kippur. Neither would another ace Jewish pitcher.
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