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An Israeli woman was murdered by her husband. It sparked a national reckoning over domestic violence.
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The murder of Diana Raz was almost too horrific to describe. Raz, 35, an Israeli couples counselor who helped women in abusive relationships, got into an argument with her husband, Amir, on Feb. 5, according to the police indictment against her husband. Amir, a police officer, proceeded to tie up three…
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No AIPAC conference? No problem. We’re meeting for coffee on Zoom.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — For years, the annual AIPAC conference has culminated with thousands of Israel supporters knocking on their congressional representatives’ doors here to deliver three policy requests. Last year, the conference in early March ended with anxiety about whether COVID-19 had spread after some of the country’s first cases were detected among attendees. And…
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This Jewish female artist from the comic book golden age was overlooked for decades
(JTA) — Like the comic superheroes they invented, the Jewish creators of the characters often had secret identities – at least different names. Superman creators Joe Shuster and Jerome Siegel used the pseudonyms Joe Carter and Jerry Ess. Bob Kane, born Robert Kahn, created Batman. Jack Kirby, the pen name of Jacob Kurtzenberg, concocted Captain…
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How ranked-choice voting might affect the historic influence of NYC’s Orthodox voting bloc
Andrew Yang promised he would not take action on secular education in yeshivas. Eric Adams visited a Brooklyn yeshiva to learn about how it teaches science, math and English. Ray McGuire hosted a roundtable with rabbis in which he boasted about his comfort level praying at the Western Wall. These are just a few examples…
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Want to ruin a date? Bring up Israel.
More personal than American politics and more sensitive than religious observance, Israeli politics can make for a potent cocktail
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Meet the Jewish freshmen who started college in quarantine dorms or childhood bedrooms
When Julie Levey, 18, started Princeton in the fall, her roommates were her three younger siblings and parents. Talking about her experience with Jewish life “on campus,” Levey was tempted to stay positive, grateful. She wanted to describe a paradise of Jewish learning, prayer and community, to say it’s been everything she had hoped for…
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A bronze Ruth Bader Ginsburg is watching over Brooklyn — and Trader Joe’s
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born and raised in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn; now, a statue of her will carry on her legacy in her home borough, unveiled on Friday for an invited audience of approximately 30, largely judges and members of city government. The bronze likeness stands just inside the doors of CityPoint, a…
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Leo Rechter, 93, Fought For Destitute Holocaust Survivors
(JTA) — In 2007, Leo Rechter, testified at a U.S. congressional hearing urging action to speed up the public opening of Nazi war records held at Bad Arolsen in Germany. Then the long-serving president of the National Association of Jewish Child Holocaust Survivors, or NAHOS, Rechter told legislators that the voices of thousands of Holocaust…
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Most Jewish groups mum amid growing pressure on Cuomo to resign
As calls mount for embattled Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York to step down amid allegations of sexual misconduct, Jewish groups are seeming reluctant to express an opinion. In particular, Orthodox groups, who have expressed their fair share of criticism of Cuomo in recent months, have remained on the sidelines. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and…
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For Passover, this Jewish congressman wants to ‘help free another people’: the Uyghurs
Ted Deutch got his start in politics as a college student at the University of Michigan, fighting for the rights of refuseniks and the liberation of Soviet Jews. Now, he’s leading a bipartisan effort in Congress to expedite the process for Uyghur refugees seeking asylum in the United States. “I think we have an opportunity…
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No, they’re not named ‘Corona’: Meet 3 couples and their pandemic babies
When quarantine first began, back when some of us naively thought it would truly just be two weeks long, Twitter predicted a baby boom; so many couples were off work, locked in with each other and little to do. That, it turns out, was wrong; a study from the Brookings Institution predicts a long-lasting baby…
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