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How Jewish can you be in a Boca country club? Wrapping tefillin got a family suspended, lawsuit says
A video from a social media influencer with nearly 2 million fans drew outsize attention to the incident
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Fast Forward Outrage ensues after a Long Island high school study guide calls Zionism ‘extreme nationalism’
Rep. Elise Stefanik called the review sheet ‘a total amoral abomination’
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‘Rabbi to watch’ Sandra Lawson turns DEI focus to North Carolina
Reconstructing Judaism's Lawson will lead racial justice group in the state she now calls home
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Fast Forward How Adrienne Adams got the coveted Hasidic nod Andrew Cuomo longed for
The Council Speaker locked down a critical bloc of Orthodox Jewish votes, potentially reshaping the mayoral primary
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Fast Forward A week after Boulder attack, attendance at Run for Their Lives spikes from dozens to hundreds
Events to raise awareness for the hostages continue, with increased security
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Exclusive: ADL chief compares student protesters to ISIS and al-Qaida in address to Republican officials
Jonathan Greenblatt also said protests against Israel were driven by 'same kind of nihilists' who participated in Black Lives Matter
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CAMERA, pro-Israel media watchdog, fires longtime CEO, spurring public acrimony
Dueling email blasts announce Andrea Levin’s departure after 36 years running the organization
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Antisemitism Decoded What happens when you dehumanize ‘Zionists’
If all Zionists are Nazis, as some activists claim, then there’s little to distinguish an elderly Holocaust survivor rallying for Israeli hostages from an IDF soldier in Gaza
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Holy Ground A Jewish farmer drove 600 miles to rescue a century-old synagogue. Now he’s building a new one in a cornfield.
All four of Nik Jakobs’ grandparents survived the Nazis. Now this Jewish cattleman is honoring them — and a shuttered Rust Belt synagogue — by building a new sanctuary and museum in rural Illinois
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Fast Forward What we know about the burn attack on a Jewish event in Boulder
There were 8 victims hospitalized and the alleged assailant faces hate crime charges
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Fast Forward Several hospitalized with burns after man attacks event for Israeli hostages in Colorado
The FBI director called the incident in downtown Boulder a ‘targeted terror attack’
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Opinion Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders?
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Film & TV How Jon Stewart evolved on Israel — at least on ‘The Daily Show’
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Opinion A new humanitarian outrage is unfolding in the Middle East. It’s not in Gaza
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Fast Forward A young Jewish organizer takes on Jerry Nadler in a generational challenge
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Yiddish די ווערק פֿון ישׂשׂכר בער ריבאַק מערקן אָפּ, און מאַכן איבער אַ צעשטערטע וועלטThese works by Issachar Ber Ryback commemorate, and transform, a devastated world
אין די אילוסטראַציעס האָט ער אױסגעדריקט זײַן צער נאָך די מוראדיקע פּאָגראָמען פֿון דער רוסישער בירגער־מלחמה.
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Fast Forward Marjorie Taylor Greene may be first Republican lawmaker to call Gaza war a ‘genocide’
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Fast Forward Lithuania scraps years of planning by Jewish groups to convert sports complex into Jewish heritage site
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