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Opinion Days before Yom Kippur, Congress wants to scale back funding that keeps Jews safe
Despite the White House antisemitism plan, the Senate proposed cutting $18 million from synagogue security grants
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News A Jewish man was charged in a plot against synagogues. His parents want you to know the whole story
Matthew Mahrer, who’s descended from a famous Holocaust survivor, desperately needed help. He’s finally getting it
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FIRST PERSON I fast on Yom Kippur but don’t go to synagogue. And there are many Jews like me
Here’s why we fast on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar — but we don’t pray, repent or ask forgiveness
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News How to protect your congregation from swatting and bomb threats during High Holiday services
Several Jewish institutions grappled with these threats from white supremacists this summer, and experts say preparing can help mitigate any disruptions
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Fast Forward Detroit’s only free-standing synagogue reopens
Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue reopens, another sign of the city’s comeback
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BINTEL BRIEF I feel so disconnected from Jewish life. Help me find the right community
Readers say they’re lost and lonely and nothing seems to fit. Bintel crowdsourced ideas for finding and forging Jewish connections
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Culture He walked every block of the Bronx and found traces of a vanished Jewish world
William Helmreich died of COVID-19 before his book, ‘The Bronx Nobody Knows,’ was published. His wife is keeping his work alive
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Culture How this Romaniote synagogue keeps a Jewish ‘minority within a minority’ alive
Kehila Kedosha Janina, a small synagogue on the Lower East Side, represents a tiny Jewish community that lived in Greece for over 2,300 years
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News Zohran Mamdani has represented Astoria’s Jews for 4 years. What do they think of him?
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Culture Is now really the best time for a cutesy Jewish summer camp movie?
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Fast Forward Australia cancels Kanye West’s visa over controversial ‘Heil Hitler’ song: ‘We don’t need that in Australia’
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