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An impeachment chronicle
L-r: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Jerry Nadler, Rep. Maxine Waters, Rep. Eliot Engel and Rep. Adam Schiff. (Alex Wong/Getty) WASHINGTON — For the third time in the Republic’s history, the US House...
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Rise, fall, rise of a Chicago Jewish neighborhood
Yeshivas Tiferes Tzvi (Ben Sales) CHICAGO — Decades ago, Congregation Ner Tamid would fill to capacity on the High Holidays, spilling over into three separate services to accommodate 1,000 worshippers....
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JERSEY CITY — All day Monday, volunteers trickled in and out of the Mary McLeod Bethune Life Center in Jersey City’s Greenville neighborhood, lining up boxes upon boxes of pretzel challah, soup mix,...
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Again. This time, Monsey
A handful of Monsey residents show support for the local Orthodox community, Dec. 29, 2019. (Ben Sales) MONSEY, NY— A man wielding a machete walked into a rabbi’s home in Monsey, NY and stabbed five...
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25,000 march against anti-Semitism in NY rally
Kids at the march against anti-Semitism in New York, Jan. 5, 2020. (Lisa Keys) NEW YORK — An estimated 25,000 people marched across the Brooklyn Bridge and held a rally on Sunday, Jan. 5, to protest...
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Rabbi Rottenberg delivers invocation at Gov. Cuomo’s State of the State
Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg speaking at the New York State of the State address in Albany, NY, Jan. 8, 2020. (13 WHAM ABC) NEW YORK — Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg, whose home was the site of a stabbing last month...
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Greenblatt’s Middle East ‘exit interview’
Jason Dov Greenblatt TEANECK, NJ — Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s former Middle East negotiator, made his first public speech since leaving the White House on Sunday night, Jan. 12....
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Krav Maga a way to confront anti-Semitism
Elion Even-Esh, left, with one of his trainees. By Eliana Rudee Just one month before the deadliest anti-Semitic mass shooting in American history on Oct. 27, 2018, which took the lives of 11 Jewish...
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Democratic candidates’ positions on Iran
L-r: Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer, Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bloomberg. (Getty Images) WASHINGTON — Based on the last Democratic presidential debate and, in...
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Chasidic all-volunteer security force
Two of Chaverim’s SUVs, equipped with sirens and insignia. (Ben Sales) MONSEY, NY — Eleven days after a man barged into a rabbi’s home on Chanukah here and stabbed five Jews, Josef Margaretten was...
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Trump’s peace plan — the components
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu at a joint statement at the White House, Jan. 28, 2020. (Sarah Silbiger/Getty) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump unveiled his long-awaited Middle East peace plan...
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How did the GOP woo Orthodox Jews?
Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas, April 6, 2019. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty) By Ben Sales and Laura E. Adkins NEW YORK — Like most of his Orthodox friends, Richard...
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Six Jewish moments at the State of the Union
The infamous moment from Pres. Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech, Feb. 4, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is now underway, judging by the...
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At National Archives: Everything but Henry Ford
An exhibit at the National Archives marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, in a photo taken Feb. 5, 2020. (National Archives/Susana Raab) WASHINGTON — The three-week exhibition at...
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Native American and Jewish — now state Supreme Court judge
Raquel Montoya-Lewis (Office of Gov. Jay Inslee) By Emily Burack NEW YORK — When Justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis was sworn in to Washington’s Supreme Court earlier this month, she became the second Native...
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Two-year anniversary of Parkland
Participants in a memorial service on the one-year anniversary of the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 14, 2019. (Joe Raedle/Getty) PARKLAND, Fla — It was during...
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Again, JCCs receive threats
NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo at the Sidney Albert Albany JCC, Feb. 23. (Mike Groll/Office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo) NEW YORK — More than 50 Jewish community centers nationwide have received emailed bomb threats...
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In light of coronavirus, Passover needs multiply
Masbia kosher supervisor Pesach Gittleson (Alexander Rapaport) NEW YORK — The run-up to Passover is the busiest time of the year for Masbia, a nonprofit that operates three kosher soup kitchens in...
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Three weeks after Purim, coronavirus is hitting Jewish communities hard
Eli Schwebel NEW YORK — The day before the chasidic folk band Zusha performed before a crowd of 300 in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights on the evening of March 9, the band’s manager thought...
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2020 Census asks tricky question about Jewish ‘origins’
Census 2020 illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images WASHINGTON — It’s the ninth question on the census, and for many Jewish respondents, it’s a surprising — and sometimes unwelcome — invitation to...
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