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All the Jewish medalists at the 2024 Paris Olympics
Jewish and Israeli athletes have won 18 total medals so far in sports ranging from swimming and judo to sailing and fencing at the 2024 Paris Games
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Politics JD Vance downplays Trump dinner with Holocaust denier
The Republican vice presidential nominee disavowed Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist, and called him a ‘total loser’
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Politics A mezuzah in a Harris-Emhoff White House? It might not be the first.
Doug Emhoff said he'd put a mezuzah in the White House. Whether Jewish law requires him to is a matter of dispute.
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Politics Kamala Harris has the perfect response to anti-Israel hecklers
The vice president is right: You can care about Palestinians — and also about winning the White House
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Politics Navigating tense waters, Kamala Harris listens to pro-Palestinian activists and then shushes them
Harris’ anger at protesters in Michigan offered a raw display of the fine line Democrats must walk around the Israel-Hamas war as the presidential election looms
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Politics White House slams Cori Bush’s threat to AIPAC to ‘tear your kingdom down’
A White House spokeswoman implied that Bush’s rhetoric could inspire political violence
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Politics Trump — offering no evidence — claims surge in Jewish support amid declining numbers against Harris
Trump suggests Kamala Harris is against aid to Israel after agreeing to meet with pro-Palestinian activists calling for an arms embargo
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Remembering the three Jewish women fencing champions who defied Hitler at the 1936 ‘Nazi Olympics’
A Jewish memorabilia collector recalls the Jewish trifecta of women athletes who won medals in foil at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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Politics Pro-Israel groups helped defeat Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush. Why aren’t they targeting Ilhan Omar?
Omar’s rival, Don Samuels, came within 2,500 votes of defeating her in the 2022 primary
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Politics The Yiddish wisdom of Tim Walz
In declaring 'We'll sleep when we're dead,' VP candidate Walz was invoking a particularly Yiddish philosophy and work ethic
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Politics ‘Squad’ member Cori Bush is defeated in St. Louis primary that drew millions in pro-Israel money
It was the second Democratic primary win against a “Squad” member for pro-Israel political action committees
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