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The new Conservative leader will confront declining membership, evolving politics and ongoing antisemitism
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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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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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New York Gov. Hochul gives Unilever final warning before divesting over Ben & Jerry’s Israel boycott
Pro-Israel groups ask why the state hasn't acted on threat to punish Ben & Jerry's for refusing to sell in the West Bank
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Why are AIPAC and J Street endorsing the same candidates?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is just one of nearly 50 politicians endorsed by both groups
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He denounced antisemitism in Congress, then dropped dead
Remembering Rep. Michael Edelstein on the anniversary of the June 4 speech he gave just before the US entered WWII
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At 90, a rabbi revisits the work he did as part of underground clergy abortion network
Botched abortions, secret files in Hebrew, and a prison-inspired conversion to support women’s right to choose.
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She could leave Ukraine, but stays to preserve its Jewish future
Rachel Strugatsky was a surgical nurse in Jerusalem. Now she tends to the wounded at her Kyiv synagogue
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Sports A Jewish Giant gets slapped by a Cincinnati Red — and mostly shrugs it off
A baseball beef for the fantasy football generation.
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Jewish? Soviet? Ukrainian? Russian? The war has American Jews asking, ‘Who am I?’
A long history of antisemitic violence and exclusion in the former Soviet Union complicates loyalties for expats in the United States.
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Couple trying to retrieve their son’s remains from Gaza say they have new reasons to hope
Hadar Goldin, a lieutenant in the IDF, was killed in Gaza two hours after the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect
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