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‘An earthquake in Israel’: An Israeli expert discusses the end of the Haredi draft exemption
Netanyahu has to get warring factions to compromise on a plan to recruit yeshiva students to the military
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A Jewish high school in Palo Alto is looking to China for new recruits
“China has been, for years, a robust market for foreign students,” a school official said
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Some Jewish summer camps are facing pressure to rethink — or even fully scrap — their Israel programs
Before the war, Jewish camps were already experiencing pressure from some who said they had contributed to a sanitized picture of Israel
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‘Not fully of this world:’ Joe Lieberman’s rabbi delivers his eulogy
'He never wavered from the mission for which God sent his holy soul to this earth,' Rabbi Daniel Cohen told mourners
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Philly Federation furious over Haverford’s ‘COVID in times of genocide’ campus event
And that was the workshopped name
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Antisemitism Decoded A grotesque cartoon and two views of contemporary antisemitism
Rochester's Jewish federation connected an offensive cartoon to a local ceasefire resolution. A Jewish council member pushed back
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Fast Forward Joe Lieberman’s rabbi on the senator who was ‘one of us’
Rabbi Daniel Cohen leads the Stamford synagogue the Lieberman family has called home for generations
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‘Until a ceasefire’: Nonstop protest rocks the Israeli Embassy — and the neighborhood beyond
For the past month, protesters have maintained a constant presence outside the embassy in Washington
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Joseph Lieberman, centrist senator and first Jew on a major presidential ticket, dies at 82
His legacy was that of a bridge builder, a position that sometimes angered former colleagues
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Sports Can you discuss a Jewish NHL player’s 50-goal season without noting his ‘insanely rich’ family?
Zach Hyman's impressive achievement was briefly overshadowed by a hockey analyst's insistence on — you guessed it — context
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Ben Shapiro’s split with Candace Owens reflects how Israel and antisemitism are also dividing the right
The Jewish conservative media figure parted ways with his star pundit after she heavily criticized Israel
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Fast Forward Why some Satmar Hasidic leaders endorsed Zohran Mamdani as mayor, stunning many Jewish voters
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News How Mamdani became New York’s next mayor, with Jews divided between fierce opposition and fiery support
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Opinion I’m an Israeli who lives in New York. Here’s why I’m voting for Mamdani
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Culture Mamdani quoted Eugene Debs in his victory speech — there’s a long Jewish history there
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Culture Mamdani’s first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
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Film & TV On the trail of a priceless dove, a group of Palestinians and Israelis find that peace is for the birds
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Culture Could poetry revive Yitzhak Rabin’s legacy among young American Jews?
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