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Fast Forward Holocaust ‘doesn’t even compare’ to abortion deaths, says GOP nominee for Illinois governor
Darren Bailey is facing Democratic incumbent J.B. Pritzker, who is Jewish, in the general election
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Culture This portrait of a 10-year-old killed in Uvalde is helping to heal a broken community
Israeli American artist Anat Ronen's mural is part of a project memorializing the school shooting victims
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10 Jewish baseball players from history who you may not know (but should)
An updated version of sports writer Howard Megdal’s “The Baseball Talmud” offers the perfect opportunity to revisit some of the 20th century’s less heralded Jewish ballplayers
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This doctor steered Hawaii through the worst of the pandemic. Now he wants to be governor
Josh Green faced down antisemites and vaccine protesters — while working weekends in an ER and keeping the public informed about COVID-19 caseloads
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Nadler and Maloney trade barbs at Jewish forum
The veteran Democratic incumbents take gloves off as primary approaches to fend off 'generational change' campaign of newcomer Suraj Patel
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Boston’s Jews are getting a ‘Jewish tavern’ to study religious text — and drink beer
This Jewish tavern from the co-creators of Sefaria and PocketTorah aims to revolutionize Jewish communal spaces, in the spirit of the Frankfurt Lehrhaus of the 1920s
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In crowded race for Congress, Dan Goldman makes the Jewish case for Brooklyn seat
Goldman is one of four Jewish candidates running in the Aug. 23 primary for the open seat once represented by veteran Rep. Jerry Nadler
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He lobbied for Nazis — why did a Jewish museum honor him?
A longstanding tribute to Gen. Julius Klein at a Jewish military museum, funded by his family, raises eyebrows
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How a New York Jew wound up trying to help an Afghan man he met on Clubhouse
Nat Rosenzweig said the luck that allowed his grandmother to escape the Holocaust inspired him to act after Sayed entered his chat room
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Born and raised Jewish, the man leading 19 years of protests against a Michigan synagogue embraces antisemitic tropes
Henry Herskovitz denies the Holocaust and believes that antisemitism is rooted in 'bad Jewish behavior'
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‘Inca Jews’ get a closer look in new book about Peru’s unlikely mass conversion
The saga of the Bnei Moshe — and their battle for acceptance by Peru’s and Israel’s Jewish leadership — unspools in 'The Prophet of the Andes: An Unlikely Journey to the Promised Land'
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Their wilderness-inspired Jewish wedding featured an animal-skin ketubah and ‘first fruits’ altar
Adi Aboody and Ophir Haberer, who began dating last September, married in Sebastopol, California.
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UPCOMING EVENT
50th meeting of the Yiddish Open Mic Cafe
Hybrid event in London and online.
Aug 14, 2022
1:30 pm ET ·
Join audiences and participants from across the globe for this live celebration of Yiddish songs, poems, jokes, stories, games, serious and funny - all performed in Yiddish with English translation.