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Culture Why are Jews calling anyone who disagrees with them a kapo?
The term is one of the harshest insults between Jews, yet somehow it has become just another political epithet
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Fast Forward Josh Shapiro: ‘Donald Trump is obsessed with me’
The exchange comes as both parties are increasingly accusing each other of antisemitism in a campaign for Jewish voters
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Fast Forward Kamala Harris says ‘I will not be silent’ about plight of Palestinians after meeting Benjamin Netanyahu
Harris struck a markedly different tone from Biden in her first foray as a presidential candidate into the Israel-Hamas war
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Fast Forward After uncertainty, Benjamin Netanyahu secures meetings with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump
Meanwhile, Netanyahu’s arrival in Washington has come with protests, including potentially by lawmakers planning to boycot his speech to Congress
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Politics An astronaut, kosher Jew and Southern gentleman walk into the VP race: Ranking the Jewishness of Harris’ VP prospects
Our intrepid reporter ponders the kishka connections of the top five contenders: Josh Shapiro, Mark Kelly, Roy Cooper, J.B. Pritzker and Andy Bashear
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Fast Forward Kamala Harris will miss Netanyahu’s address to Congress. Here’s why.
It's unclear whether the Vice President committed to her speaking appearance before or after Netanyahu rescheduled his address
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Politics Donald Trump accepts party nomination after a week in which Israel was extolled and isolationists were given center stage
Isolationism is being debated 'within our party, there’s no question about it,' said a prominent Republican Jewish leader
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Fast Forward AIPAC taps its No. 2, Elliot Brandt, to be its next CEO at uncertain time for U.S.-Israel relations
Brandt, who became vice CEO earlier this year, graduated from Stanford University in 1990 and has spent almost three decades with AIPAC
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Holy Ground A Jewish farmer broke ground on a synagogue in an Illinois cornfield. His neighbors showed up to help.
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Opinion I discovered anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I’m glad it lives on there
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Opinion An alarming new battleground in campus fights over Israel
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
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