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News Why do some people think Rep. Mike Lawler is Jewish?
A drunken antisemitic rant against the Catholic Republican puts spotlight on a congressman who has made fighting antisemitism central to his political identity
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Opinion When it comes to Israel/Palestine, everyone is sure that everyone else is a bigot
Is there any way to make the Hard Left, Hard Center and Hard Right... a little softer?
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News Mamdani supersizes NYC hate crimes office, as tensions simmer over synagogue protests
The mayor stresses prevention and condemns antisemitic acts — but defends demonstrations following Brooklyn clashes
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News Hochul makes play for Orthodox voters with tuition relief and synagogue buffer zones
The incumbent Democrat is moving to lock down a key block and ahead of Jewish showdown with Republican rival Bruce Blakeman
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Fast Forward Jewish real estate magnate Steven Roth likens Mamdani’s ‘tax the rich’ rhetoric to ‘from the river to the sea’
The founder of Vornado Realty Trust took aim at the New York City mayor after he proposed a new tax on luxury second homes
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News Most Jewish voters rate Mamdani poorly, new poll finds
A majority of Jews concerned about rising antisemitism say anti-Zionism is a driving factor as the mayor holds firm on the strategy that got him elected
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Fast Forward A GOP lawmaker tried to put a Holocaust denier on New Hampshire’s Holocaust education board
Matt Sabourin dit Choinière brought a notorious German Holocaust denier and his books to a state hearing
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Fast Forward NH lawmaker reprimanded for ‘final solution’ joke aimed at Jewish colleague
“We need a final solution for theater kids in politics,” Rep. Travis Corcoran had tweeted in response to a “karaoke caucus” invite
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News ‘It’s the Jews’: San Diego mosque shooters decried ‘the universal enemy’ in hate-filled manifesto
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Music For Bob Dylan’s 85th birthday, an 85-minute playlist
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News Nearly half of young U.S. Jews want to replace Israel with binational state, poll finds
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Film & TV Woody Allen’s biggest fans were easy marks for a fake monologue about antisemitism
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Opinion In Miami, rekindling the Black-Jewish alliance that Clarence Jones insisted never died
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News Floyd Mayweather showered cash on Jewish causes — and now he’s suing their ‘Robin Hood’ alleging $175 million got diverted
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Yiddish World Inspired by a queer Bundist poet, this Jewish composer set her work to Yiddish music
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Fast Forward In Israel, an Arab-Jewish youth orchestra builds a new ‘East-West’ sound together