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TikTok and Twitter videos bring images of Israel-Gaza conflict home to American Jews
(JTA) — For some Americans watching the escalating violence in Israel and Gaza in recent days, the most striking image from the conflict came in a video of Israeli men at the Western Wall, singing and dancing as they watched a fire burn outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Others can’t look away from videos of Iron…
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Clashes break out between Israeli police, Arab protesters as slain man is laid to rest
Hundreds gathered on Tuesday for the funeral of an Israeli Arab man who was shot dead the night before in clashes in the central city of Lod, amid high tensions throughout the country and renewed demonstrations by the Arab community against Israel’s latest actions in Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. Clashes between police and some…
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As Gaza conflict escalates, here’s what American Jews think about Israel
(JTA) — On Tuesday, Israel found itself fighting what may be another war in Gaza. And American Jews are watching. Israel and Hamas, the militant group that governs the Gaza Strip, have already traded hundreds of airstrikes and missiles since Monday. Dozens of Palestinians and two Israelis have lost their lives — a number that…
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New Pew study shows 75% of Orthodox Jews identify as Republicans, up from 57% in 2013
(JTA) — Among the findings of the Pew Research Center’s new survey of American Jews is one that has become increasingly self-evident in recent years: Orthodox Jews in the U.S. overwhelmingly affiliate with the Republican Party. According to the newest study, 75% of Orthodox Jews surveyed said they were Republicans or leaned Republican. In 2013,…
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Slideshow: America’s Jews in 2020
The Pew Research Center Tuesday released Jewish Americans in 2020, a survey that paints a detailed portrait of the United States’ 7.5 million Jews. Here are some of the report’s most significant findings:
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Pew’s new study of American Jews reveals widening divides, worries over antisemitism
A new, detailed survey of American Jews from the Pew Research Center shows a deepening divide between the Orthodox and the less observant, a rising number of Black, Hispanic and Asian Jews, more intermarriage and growing concern about antisemitism. The increasingly stark religious and political differences between the Orthodox and other Jews is likely to…
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Top takeaways from the new Pew study: Chabad, Israel, Jewish food and more
The Pew Research Center’s new report, “Jewish Americans in 2020,” is nearly 250-pages long and asked 4,718 respondents about a wide range of topics. Do they watch Jewish television shows? Would they prefer their grandchildren marry a Jew or share their political beliefs? How closely do they follow news about Israel? You can read our…
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Putting Pew’s new survey into context: How similar studies have shaped 3 decades of Jewish life.
(JTA) — On Tuesday, the Pew Research Center will present the results of its latest major survey of Jewish Americans, its biggest since 2013. If history is any guide, the results will launch a thousand internal Jewish debates about who is a Jew, who gets to decide and what’s the future for a diverse, splintered,…
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Mauro Viale 73 – Popular Argentine Television Host
(JTA) — BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Early in his journalism career, Mauricio Goldfarb changed his name to Mauro Viale, a shift many understood as an indication of the difficulty of achieving professional success in Argentina for someone with such an obviously Jewish name. Mauro was his nickname among school friends; Viale was a street…
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High school flunks Jewish Heritage Month, picking Meir Kahane as honoree
It had to be a mistake. Or perhaps some kind of prank? The email from Montclair High School stunned parents in the famously liberal New Jersey enclave Monday afternoon: Its pick to honor for Jewish American Heritage Month was the late ultra-nationalist radical Rabbi Meir Kahane. The “daily announcements” email sent to students, parents and…
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Biden can neither ignore nor address Israeli-Palestinian violence
As President Biden is preparing to engage in talks with Republican leaders on a bold infrastructure package, a rash of events in the Middle East is threatening to pull the U.S. back into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Biden administration immediately condemned “in the strongest terms” the rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into Israel late…
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