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Hit game ‘The Last of Us Part II’ features Dina, a Jewish character
The Last of Us Part II, a zombie horror/survival game released last week by the game developer company Naughty Dog, sold more than four million copies within two days. It’s also one of the few blockbuster games to feature a Jewish supporting character. While Dina is not a playable character, she has a large role…
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At Little Sesame in Washington, D.C., social justice is on the menu
By July 4, Little Sesame restaurant in Washington, D.C. will have served 50,000 meals. That’s an astonishing number for any restaurant during a worldwide pandemic when the majority of restaurants have been shuttered or reduced to take-out and delivery. It’s even more notable considering all of those meals have been served, at no cost, to…
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Over strong protests, a gondola to Jerusalem’s Old City inches forward
Looking east from atop Bible Hill in Jerusalem, the Old City walls, Mount Zion and the Mount of Olives seem like a timeless scene. On a clear day the mountains in neighboring Jordan peek through the desert haze in a ruddy streak across the horizon. That view may soon be accompanied by monumental steel pylons…
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Extremist activity is growing in the pandemic. How worried should Jews be?
On the last day of Passover last year, a young nursing student went into the Chabad of Poway synagogue and shot four people, killing 60-year-old Lori Gilbert-Kaye. The accused murderer’s manifesto was filled with anti-Semitic sentiments, but it also contained another element: The shooter’s wish that his actions would lead the government to start confiscating…
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Antone Melton-Meaux, Ilhan Omar’s challenger, calls her a ‘divider’
Early in her brief tenure as a member of Congress, Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota received some advice on how not to sound like an anti-Semite. Local Jewish leaders met with the Democrat to provide a crash course in what’s so offensive about suggesting that for Jews “it’s all about the Benjamins” or that Jewish-American…
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Criticizing Cuomo, de Blasio, judge loosens COVID restrictions on religious gatherings
A federal judge in Syracuse issued a preliminary injunction Friday preventing New York officials from enforcing different coronavirus restrictions for houses of worship than for secular nonessential businesses. Senior U.S. District Judge Gary L. Sharpe wrote that Governor Andrew Cuomo, Attorney General Letitia James and Mayor Bill de Blasio had made decisions that led to…
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Lucille Weiss, 93, Beloved Matriarch With Zest For Life
BOSTON (JTA) — Lucille Weiss had a zest for life, traversing continents and cultivating a home teeming with family and friends — and 17 species of pests, including a skunk and a parrot. At the age of 80, she set out to visit a roost of butterflies in central Mexico. The steep uphill journey required…
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Sidney Forman, 95, Lived Out A Dream With Performance Of Musical Comedy He Wrote In The 1950s
BOSTON (JTA) – Sidney Forman performed before many audiences over the course of his life. He sang in barbershop quartets, in synagogue choirs and for the ordination of a cardinal. At Boston’s Hatch Shell concert venue, he sang for the legendary Boston Pops maestro Arthur Fiedler. But a year ago, when Forman packed the house…
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Facebook failing to contain content from far-right ‘Boogaloo’ movement, experts say
Facebook is failing to contain content from a growing right-wing extremist group called the “boogaloo” movement, experts say. Researchers from Avaaz, a not-for-profit that works to combat disinformation, found more than 20 Facebook pages calling for armed violence and promoting conspiracy theories about the George Floyd protests by self-identified “Boogaloo Boys,” members of an anti-government…
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Young Hasidic Jews mobilized their community for Black Lives Matter. Now they’re organizing online.
For Miriam Levy-Haim, the most exciting part of the march was watching the crowd grow. She’d expected to gather between 30 and 50 members of her Crown Heights Chabad community to march against police violence on a Sunday afternoon in early June. In fact, hundreds of parents, teenagers and young children showed up bearing signs,…
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Claims Conference executive who led during fraud scandal to serve as new chairman
Gideon Taylor, the former executive director of the Claims Conference who was one of the leaders under which employees perpetrated an elaborate fraud, will be the new chairman of the organization on June 30 barring extenuating circumstances, a spokeswoman said. Taylor is the sole nominee to replace Julius Berman, who served in the role for…
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