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The only immigration lawyer in town
Marty Rosenbluth DURHAM, NC — Most of the year, Marty Rosenbluth lives alone in a small house in Lumpkin, a Georgia town with 2,000 residents and one restaurant. It’s 500 miles away from his wife and...
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Democratic candidates send in video greetings
L-r: Democratic presidential contenders Elizabeth Warren, Tim Ryan, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders. (Getty Images/JTA Montage) WASHINGTON — Everyone started by praising the American Jewish...
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NYT: No more political cartoons
The New York Times headquarters in Manhattan. (Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty) NEW YORK — The New York Times announced that it will no longer publish daily political cartoons in its international edition, in...
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Yiddish for the win
Rishik Gandshari at the 2019 Scripps Spelling Bee (Facebook) It’s Yiddish for the win at the Scripps National Spelling Bee! OK, not quite, but last week, when the first rounds of the finals kicked off,...
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‘Concentration camps’ on US southern border — says Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Mario Tama/Getty) NEW YORK — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said this week that detention centers holding undocumented immigrants on the southern border are “concentration...
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New York’s chasidic community among groups grappling with possible fur ban
Marc Kaufman in his Midtown Manhattan five-generation business. NEW YORK — It’s summer and Marc Kaufman has thousands of coats in the basement of his store in Midtown Manhattan. For a fee, the...
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Trump’s Iran policy questioned; explained
Brian Hook, US special representative for Iran, testifies before a House subcommittee, June 19, 2019. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he is “very...
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Body of drowned rabbi recovered, buried
Rabbi Reuven Bauman NORFOLK — The body of a rabbi who jumped into the ocean in Virginia to save a student was found off the coast of North Carolina. Volunteers looking for Reuven Bauman, 35, found the...
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When it comes to Trump’s tweets, Jews say ‘leave us out of it’
President Trump and the four progressive Democrats he has recently targeted. (Laura E. Adkins for JTA/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — Over and over since his July 15 tweet saying that that the Democratic...
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Voice over the moon
Jules Bergman (Denver Post via Getty Images) NEW YORK — In the 1960s, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and John Glenn were household names, idolized as G-d-like figures by a public enraptured by...
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US House: No to BDS
WASHINGTON — The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly condemned the movement to boycott, divest and sanction Israel. The House vote Tuesday, July 23, on the non-binding resolution was 398-17....
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Meet the budding journalist covering the debates
Jefferson Kraft DETROIT — For any reporter, careening in a year from reviewing restaurants to covering the presidential debates would be a pretty fast rise. But then again, Jefferson Henry Kraft is...
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Suspect still at large in Miami shooting
The Young Israel of Greater Miami synagogue on the night of the shooting, July 28, 2019. (Screenshot from Local10.com) MIAMI — When Rabbi Mark Rosenberg’s family played back the footage on their home’s...
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In one week: $2.2 million raised
Eliana Cohen (YouTube screenshot) MIAMI — A campaign on a Jewish crowdfunding website raised more than $2 million in five days to provide a “miracle drug” to help a two-year-old Florida girl. Eliana...
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Parents lobby Congress to stop suicide among military
Howard and Jean Somers (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty) PHOENIX — In 2007, Sgt. Daniel Somers returned home after two tours in Iraq, where he worked in intelligence and special operations. For years he struggled...
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The other Democrat from Michigan
Rep. Slotkin speaks to Alan Caldwell at a VFW post in Lansing, Mich., July 30, 2019. LANSING — Tom Dalton could be the poster boy for Elissa Slotkin’s path to a second term and, she would argue, to...
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Does ‘domestic terrorism’ have teeth?
Police gather at the Cielo Vista Mall as an active shooter situation is going inside in El Paso on August 3, 2019. (Joel Angel Juarez /AFP/Getty) EL PASO — Before he killed at least 22 people at a...
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Who were Tlaib and Omar’s hosts going to be?
Benjamin Netanyahu, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar (Laura Adkins/JTA/Getty) WASHINGTON — Explaining Israel’s decision not to allow Democratic congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib to visit Israel and...
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Trump: Jews ‘disloyal’ if they vote Dem
Donald Trump pictured August 20, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — Most Jewish groups called out President Donald Trump as “dangerous” and displaying “textbook...
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Repeated attacks on Brooklyn Jews
Women and children in Borough Park, Brooklyn. (Ben Sales) NEW YORK — As he talks about the recent string of attacks on Jews in Brooklyn, Yosef Rapaport points to a small scar above his right eye. It’s...
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