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Obama threatens veto on missile defense aid
President Barack Obama signs the Trade Facilitation and Enforcement Act of 2015. (Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty) WASHINGTON — Despite President Barack Obama’s veto threat, the US House of Representatives...
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Sens. urge posthumous medal for Rabbi Heschel
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Opioid epidemic takes Jewish lives
Eve Goldberg NEW YORK — Eve Goldberg’s son, Isaac, was in a panic. He had to get out of college. Isaac Goldberg Volkmar had been at the University of Rhode Island for less than a semester in 2009 when...
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Young black men killed by police officers under questionable circumstances, cops murdered in cold blood by a gunman apparently bent on race-inspired revenge. Just another bloody week in America? This...
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Jewish volunteers assist in Louisiana flood clean-up
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On school closures, Muslims look to Jewish example
Muslim students at MCC Elementary in Morton Grove, Ill. join together to pray in the school gymnasium ahead of Ramadan in 2006. (Scott Olson/Getty) NEW YORK — When Jessica Abdelnabbi-Berrocal wanted...
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Last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor donates a million to Holocaust museum
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Clinton, Trump talk tough on Iran
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Oberlin president to step down
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At UCLA, Milan Chatterjee unlikely hero on BDS
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US aid generous, on Obama’s terms
Jacob Nagel, left, Israel’s acting national security adviser, signing the Memorandum of Understanding with Undersecretary of State Tom Shannon, Sept. 14, 2016. (Embassy of Israel) WASHINGTON— President...
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Jews reassess Muslim presence in Elizabeth, NJ
Yaakov Weiss manages a kosher grocery store and works at the adjacent Middle Eastern market a couple blocks from where Ahmad Khan Rahami worked. (Ben Sales) ELIZABETH, NJ — Ahmad Khan Rahami, the man...
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How Jews fared in Senate and House races
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Navy SEAL wins in Missouri
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Bipartisan consensus threatened by possible end of two-state solution
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Oberlin professor dismissed over anti-Semitic posts
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Now in all 50 states: Chabad opens in South Dakota
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Ellison’s ascent worries some Jews
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In Trump era, not all Jews agree on anti-Semitism vary
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Who is ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis?
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