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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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Sen. Bennet on Iran, Jerusalem embassy, Golan
Sen. Michael Bennet being interviewed about his new book, Sept. 10, 2019. By Jackson Richman Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, declined to...
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Rebuilding black-Jewish relations
Rabbi Eli Cohen, right, talks with a census volunteer at #OneCrownHeights festival, Sept. 15, 2019. NEW YORK— At the end of August, the New York Police Dept. hate crimes task force investigated an...
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Arson in Duluth
The burned down Adas Israel Congregation in Duluth, Minn., Sept. 9, 2019. (Duluth News Tribune Screenshot) DULUTH — The homeless man charged with setting fire to a historic synagogue in northern...
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The phone call that ignited action
Volodymyr Zelensky waves to supporters at his campaign headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine, April 21, 2019. (Xinhua/Sergey/Getty) ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5780 SECTION A PAGE 11 WASHINGTON — A week ago,...
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Whither Jewish day schools?
Steps outside San Diego Jewish Academy. By Faygie Holt When students returned to the San Diego Jewish Academy just a few weeks ago, they were greeted not only by new teachers, but new classmates as...
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How Pittsburgh changed shul security
A security camera across from the Park East Synagogue in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty) WASHINGTON — Here’s the sad paradox of the shooting nearly one year ago at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life...
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Democrats diverge on Middle East, but all criticize Syria pullout
Thousands gathered in Cologne, Germany to protest Turkey’s invasion of Kurdish areas in Syria; Sen. Chris Van Hollen, top right, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, have introduced legislation that would...
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Sen. Bennet discusses Israel at J Street
Sen. Michael Bennet at the 2019 J Street National Conference in Washington, DC on October 28, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty) WASHINGTON — Since announcing his presidential run in May, Michael Bennet has...
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Lt. Col. Vindman came to the US as a Soviet refugee
NSC Director for European Affairs Alexander Vindman in Washington, DC on October 29, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty) WASHINGTON — Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council staffer who...
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Whither the Pittsburgh memorial objects?
Quilted hearts sent in memoriam of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. (Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives) PITTSBURGH — Eric Lidji remembers people leaving objects in sets of 11. Eleven white...
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Vindman: ‘I am an American’
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman in the Longworth Building, November 19, 2019. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) WASHINGTON — Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the Jewish National Security Council staffer whose...
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Stabbing of schoolteacher has changed life in Ramapo, NY
Ramapo’s Toshnad Synagogue Life was good — Then a schoolteacher was stabbed, almost to death, and life in Ramapo changed RAMAPO, NY— On the street where a man was stabbed to within an inch of his life...
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Trump lays it on at Israel-US confab
President Donald Trump at the IAC annual conference in Florida, Dec. 7, 2019. (Noam Galai) HOLLYWOOD, Fla.— President Donald Trump slammed American Jews who he said did not sufficiently “love Israel.”...
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Nikki Haley unpacks at UN Watch
Former Amb. Nikki Haley addresses UN Watch, Dec. 5, 2019. By Shiryn Ghermezian In a scathing speech last week about corruption in the UN, former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley accused Canada of...
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Four killed in shooting in New Jersey kosher shop
The scene outside the site of a deadly shooting at kosher supermarket in Jersey, City, Dec. 10, 2019. NEW YORK — The gunmen who entered a Jersey City kosher supermarket and engaged in a deadly shootout...
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Trump signs executive order on anti-Semitism
President Trump, joined by First Lady Melania Trump, holds an Executive Order he signed on combating anti-Semitism Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. (D. Myles Cullen) By Jackson Richman WASHINGTON — US...
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Trump’s executive order: what it said, what it didn’t say
President Trump, joined by First Lady Melania Trump, holds an Executive Order he signed on combating anti-Semitism Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. (D. Myles Cullen) CHANUKAH 5780 SECTION A PAGE 6 Based on...
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