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Opinion Israeli Jews are ‘crying out in pain.’ How will we respond?
If we want to test whether or not the Jewish people are still one body, we must see how one head responds to the suffering of the other.
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News 50 years ago East Germany gained admission to the UN over one objection — Israel’s
Israel’s ambassador backed West Germany but said East Germany did not deserve to join the family of nations
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Politics ‘I have your back’ Biden says on Rosh Hashanah call to Jewish leaders
The president's call to rabbis and other Jewish leaders is an annual holiday ritual
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Fast Forward Prime Minister Netanyahu to meet with Elon Musk next week
The Twitter chief has infuriated Jewish groups for giving a platform to neo-Nazis and antisemites
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Opinion Israel’s Supreme Court is ruling on its own future. What should American Jews do?
The fight against Israel's judicial overhaul requires American Jews to get involved
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News Israel’s judicial overhaul is facing a new test — but for protesters, the fight is about much more than the courts
LGBTQ+ protesters, women and other minority groups worry their rights are under attack
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Israel News Watch: What happens next with Israel’s judicial overhaul?
What experts think will happen next with Netanyahu's judicial reform and the protest movement
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Yiddish World How Yiddish became a ‘foreign language’ in Israel despite being spoken there since the 1400s
The exhibit ‘Palestinian Yiddish’ chronicles the integration of Yiddish with Arabic, its literary rise and violent suppression in pre-state Israel
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Culture Cardinals are Catholic, not Jewish — so why do they all wear yarmulkes?
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Fast Forward Ye debuts ‘Heil Hitler’ music video that includes a sample of a Hitler speech
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News School Israel trip turns ‘terrifying’ for LA students attacked by Israeli teens
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Fast Forward Student suspended for ‘F— the Jews’ video defends himself on antisemitic podcast
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Yiddish קאָנצערט לכּבֿוד דעם ייִדישן שרײַבער און רעדאַקטאָר באָריס סאַנדלערConcert honoring Yiddish writer and editor Boris Sandler
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Fast Forward Trump’s new pick for surgeon general blames the Nazis for pesticides on our food
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Fast Forward Jewish feud over Trump escalates with open letter in The New York Times
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