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Mystery Death Of Killer’s Brother Dredges Up Leiby Kletzky Horror In Hasidic Brooklyn
Six summers ago, Leiby Kletzky’s angelic face was everywhere in New York. The 8-year-old Hasidic boy vanished on his first day walking home from day camp in his neighborhood in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn. The city’s worst fears became reality a few days later when his dismembered body was discovered stashed in a…
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This Firebrand African Leader Has A Surprising Message: ‘I Am A Jew’
After spending year and a half imprisoned by the Nigerian government, the populist leader was finally free and surrounded by his supporters. He wore a long gown with a prayer shawl draped over his shoulders. Raising his hands, he greeted the crowd with one Hebrew word: “Shalom.” Is one of Nigeria’s most famous political activists…
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How Rabbis Are Trying To Make The Conservative Movement More Gay-Friendly
The Jewish coming-of-age ceremony known as a bar mitzvah is always challenging. It happens at the awkward age of the early teen years, and requires the child to chant, before family, friends and congregation, from the archaic Hebrew of the Torah. For Amichai Lau-Lavie, the Israeli-born scion of an Eastern European rabbinical dynasty, it was…
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Sarsour At CUNY Graduation: ‘Wrong Is Wrong, No Matter Who Does It Or Says It.’
A speech by Palestinian-American civil rights advocate Linda Sarsour at the graduation ceremony of the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy was largely uneventful, despite the controversy that had surrounded Sarsour’s selection as speaker. “I’m from Brooklyn, and I came here to tell it like it is,” Sarsour…
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Campus Where Jewish Professor Was Targeted By ‘Mob’ Shut Down Amid Threats
A day after a Jewish professor’s complaints about being targeted by a left-wing “campus mob” went viral, the college at which he teaches was shut down in response to what the school called a “direct threat.” The nature of the threat that closed Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, was not immediately clear, and spokespeople…
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Why Do Some Christians Observe Shavuot?
Today marks the end of Shavuot and this Sunday is the Christian holiday of Pentecost. It’s not a simple coincidence that the two holidays fall at the same time. They’re historically — and theologically — linked. What do the sacred days have to do with each other? Shavuot falls on the sixth day of the…
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Portland Stabber Is A ‘Flurry Of Anger’ Who Wanted To Send Jews ‘To The Ovens’
The Portland man accused of aggravated murder in two brutal knife slayings last week called himself a Viking who worshipped Odin. He supported Bernie Sanders before rallying around Trump and vowed to kill supporters of Hillary Clinton. He wanted to wipe away the corrupt American society he saw around himself, but believed he was a…
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Liberal Synagogues See ‘Trump Bump’ As Pews Fill Up
Liberal synagogues, especially those where rabbis are outspoken about the values espoused by President Trump, are finding that attendance and membership are up – way up – since last November. Call it the “Trump bump.” It’s happening against the backdrop of the long-term trend of shrinking membership in liberal synagogues. In many places it includes…
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Evil Soros: Dog Whistling Anti-Semitism In Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
For over a year now, Hungary’s leader, Viktor Orbán, has been waging an increasingly shrill campaign against billionaire George Soros, using classical anti-Semitic imagery to signal to his listeners that the Hungarian-born American businessman is a shadowy foreign Jew exercising sinister influence over their country. It is an invocation that is deeply ironic on at…
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MAP: 148 Bomb Threats Strike Jewish Community — And Counting
On Sunday May 28, Yeshiva Toras Chaim Toras Emes day school in North Miami Beach received a bomb threat and a faxed demand for $25,000 in ransom. This latest bomb threat made to a Jewish communal target comes over 2 months after Israel’s anti-fraud squad arrested 19-year-old Israeli-American Michael Kaydar on March 23, who is…
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ADL Says Right-Wing Terror As Dangerous As ‘Radical Islam’ — But Often Ignored
On St. Patrick’s Day, 28-year-old James Harris Jackson boarded a bus in Washington and rode it to New York looking for black men to kill. He found Timothy Caughman, a 66-year-old African-American who was scavenging for cans in Midtown Manhattan around the corner from his home. Jackson pulled out a sword and fatally stabbed the…
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