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Jewish organizations are observing the holiday with healing, reflection and a renewed commitment to fighting racism.
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‘Ironic’: Koufax statue to be unveiled on Shabbat
'Obviously they don’t have a yiddishe kopf running the operation,' one fan said.
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LGBTQ youth face terrifying new threats. How should the Jewish community respond?
Anti-LGBTQ legislation is often billed as defending religion. But Judaism has long supported the idea of a spectrum of sexual and gender identities.
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Former IDF general emerges as consensus candidate for Jewish Agency head
Yair Lapid, Israel's foreign minister and alternate prime minister, is pushing a different candidate — his deputy
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Jewish newspaper expelled from South African press council for calling BDS cartoon antisemitic
The South African Jewish Report attempted to withdraw from the association but was told ‘you cannot do that’
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Yisroel Goldstein was sentenced to 14 months for fraud. He’s home after three.
Due to the pandemic, the ex-Chabad of Poway rabbi may end up serving the rest of his sentence at his hilltop mansion.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she feels a ‘special calling’ to protect Jews
‘It hurts me as a human being to know that there's someone out there who is vulnerable because of their own faith,’ said Hochul, who is running for a first full term as governor
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What can ‘Disney adults’ teach us about religion? A lot, according to this professor.
Jodi Eichler-Levine, who went viral for her Disney discourse on Twitter, talks about the parallels between Judaism and the most passionate fans of the Disney universe.
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Boston Jews say a pro-Palestinian group’s map of local ‘Zionist leaders and powerhouse NGOs’ is a guide to antisemitism
“This project plays directly into #antisemitic myths of Jewish power and control,” said the ADL.
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‘Trying to balance values’: Conservative movement’s new head rabbi on intermarriage, inclusion and Israel
The new Conservative leader will confront declining membership, evolving politics and ongoing antisemitism
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Conservative rabbis approve a new way to call nonbinary people up to Torah
A Rabbinical Assembly committee voted 24-0 to endorse language that does not invoke gender
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