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Fast Forward Before Nita Lowey died, Donald Trump eviscerated the $250M Middle East peace fund named for her
All grantees of the MEPPA fund for peace-building efforts have been cut off
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Fast Forward What is the new ‘Judea and Samaria Caucus’ in Congress all about?
It’s one of several signs of how Trump’s Republicans are reshaping the conversation around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (And: It has no Jewish members.)
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Fast Forward Jewish House Democrats: Netanyahu will impede ceasefire for political purposes
GOP Rep. Mike Lawler said the U.S. will ‘make sure phase two occurs’
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Politics At confirmation hearing, RFK Jr. denies promoting antisemitic COVID-19 conspiracy theory
Kennedy was condemned by major Jewish groups for saying the coronavirus was 'ethnically targeted' to spare Ashkenazi Jews
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Fast Forward Combative Jewish lawmaker Randy Fine, a Trump favorite, wins Florida GOP House primary
Fine, who is expected to win election easily, courted controversy for tweeting what observers said was a threat against Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar
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Politics Adam Schiff chose Mishneh Torah for swearing in to the US Senate
Schiff, whose father died earlier this year, said he was saddened his dad couldn’t witness the Senate ceremony
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Fast Forward More than 55 Jewish groups come out against terrorism bill that could threaten nonprofits
Hadassah and the main organs of the Reform and Conservative Movements oppose the bill; AIPAC and the ADL support it
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Fast Forward Why the Senate’s Israel vote matters, as Democrats divide on the Jewish state
Sen. Bernie Sanders pushed for the vote on restricting US weapons sales to Israel
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Music In 1964, when he was just 23, Bob Dylan wrote the prophetic anthem that encapsulates Trump’s America
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Fast Forward A Palestinian man in Philadelphia served kosher bagels for decades. Then customers found his Facebook profile.
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Fast Forward The secret Jewish history of the JFK assassination: Jack Ruby was once Jacob Rubenstein
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Fast Forward Columbia bans face masks in protests and acquiesces to other Trump administration demands
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Yiddish „תּיקו“ — אַ ווייניק באַקאַנטער משל פֿונעם פּאָעט אליעזר שטיינבאַרג, צו זײַן יאָרצײַט ‘A Riddle Without a Solution’ — a little-known fable by poet Eliezer Shteynbarg on his yortsayt
דער העברעיִשער פּאָעט חיים נחמן ביאַליק האָט שוין אין 1911 געהאַלטן שטײנבאַרגס משלים פֿאַר מײַסטערווערק.
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Yiddish World Five cities now have regular meet-ups in Yiddish
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Culture 100 years after its founding, can a Yiddish institute serve a people who don’t speak the language?
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