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Gilbert Liss, 91, OB-GYN Who Delivered Over 8,000 Babies
(JTA) — (Jewish Exponent via JTA) — Dr. Gilbert Liss was an OB-GYN with a practice in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He delivered more than 8,000 babies in his career. “When I close my eyes and think about my dad, I feel his genuine joy for seeing me, the hand squeeze or arm around me walking side by side,…
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At Dodger Stadium COVID-19 vaccination site, a big mess, and big hopes
I ended Inauguration Day at Dodger Stadium. Actually, three miles outside Dodger Stadium, the last car in a line to get inside the nation’s largest Covid-19 vaccination site. I was taking a relative whose work in health care made her eligible for an early shot. We had a 5 p.m. appointment, so we joined the…
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Israelis are bending the rules to get COVID-19 vaccines — and nurses are helping them do it
BEIT SHEMESH, Israel (JTA) — Joshua Brook was relaxing with his partner one evening when a text message popped up in one of his group chats: Extra COVID-19 vaccines were available right then, at Jerusalem’s largest soccer stadium. Brook, 29, was skeptical. He had received several similar messages earlier in the week that ended up…
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Steve Israel removes himself from consideration for ambassador to Israel
Former Congressman Steve Israel has removed himself from consideration for the post of U.S. Ambassador to Israel in the Biden administration, while two others – Michael Adler and Amos Hochstein – appear to be in the lead. Israel confirmed in an email on Thursday that he informed Secretary of State-designate Tony Blinken that he doesn’t…
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David Gitlitz, 78, Scholar Of Sephardic Jewish History
(JTA) — When David Gitlitz first walked the Camino de Santiago, a network of pilgrimage trails in northwestern Spain dating to the Middle Ages, he was a young professor at Indiana University. The 500-mile trek became an enduring fascination for Gitlitz and his wife, the late Linda Kay Davidson, whom he met on that first…
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AEPi executive steps down from pro-Trump group following backlash from fraternity alumni
(JTA) — An AEPi executive is leaving his position with a group whose political arm took part in the Jan. 6 pro-Donald Trump rally in Washington. Andrew Borans, the CEO of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Foundation, served on the advisory council of Turning Point USA, a pro-Donald Trump organization whose political arm participated in the…
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Community takes pride in seeing Schumer become the highest politically ranking Jew in America
As Kamala Harris made history on Tuesday becoming the first woman and first person of color to be Vice President, she also handed Senator Chuck Schumer of New York with a prize of his own — becoming the first Jew to serve as Senate Majority Leader. The Senate is split 50-50 and Schumer and Minority…
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Here are the notable Jews who were pardoned by President Trump
Former President Donald Trump closed out his tenure in the White House as so many presidents do, with a slew of pardons. The 143 names included major figures like Steve Bannon, and former Congressman Rick Renzi, but also some notable Jews, including: Alex Adjmi A leader in the Syrian Jewish community, Adjmi heads A&H acquisitions,…
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Revisiting the top 10 antisemitic moments of Trump’s presidency
Former President Donald Trump has left the White House, but a sticky legacy of emboldening white nationalists and antisemites could follow him during his civilian life. From the man who once described himself as the “least antisemitic person that you’ve ever seen,” below are some of the Trump administration’s antisemitic greatest hits. His International Holocaust…
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On Ultra-Orthodox social media, the messiah is almost here.
After an armed insurrection at the Capitol, rampant conspiracy theories about a stolen election and social media blackouts for President Donald Trump, some WhatsApp, YouTube and Facebook users in Ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, communities see the present moment as the darkness before the dawn — that is, the golus before the coming of moshiach, the messiah….
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Biden team indicates slow process back into Iran nuclear deal. Is time on their side?
President-elect Joe Biden’s senior national security nominees sought to assure Congress on Tuesday that they will not rush reentry into the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and will only do so with input from Israel and other Middle East allies and in light of Tehran’s activities in the region. Iran was a focal point of…
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