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Synagogues hesitant to re-open
Emanu-El in Charleston, SC remains closed. NEW YORK — The road to reopening for houses of worship has been paved in a handful of states, even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to kill more than...
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Bitter battle over Lob at Conference of Presidents
Dianne Lob WASHINGTON — The American Jewish community’s leading lobby coalition elected its next leader on April 28, in a confirmation vote that was anything but routine, having followed a week of...
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When the call for talleisim when out, people answered
Prayer shawls were left on Andrew Parver’s doorstep. NEW YORK — Andrew Parver’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing since Sunday. That’s when Parver, the director of operations at the Hebrew Free Burial...
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Bill de Blasio singles out Jews for critique
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio (Reuters) By Philissa Cramer NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio drew fierce criticism this week after he singled out “the Jewish community” in a trio of tweets...
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Summer camps closed, suspended
Ramah in the Rockies NEW YORK — Nearly all Reform Jewish summer camps, and at least one Conservative camp, will remain closed for the 2020 summer due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The landmark...
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JFNA-led consortium came up with PPE
Volunteer Van Lessig helps with a Jewish Meals on Wheels program at Houston’s Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center. (Jeff Fitlow) By Michele Chabin NEW YORK — When the novel coronavirus began its...
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ADL: Anti-Semitic incidents rose in 2019
The ADL anti-Semitic incident map for 2019. NEW YORK — Last year saw the most anti-Semitic incidents in the US since at least 1979, according to the ADL. The 2,107 incidents recorded in 2019 reflect a...
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Pro-Israel Democrats challenged in New York
L-r: Rep. Eliot Engel, Lindsey Boylan, Allison Fine (Getty/Wikimedia/JTA Montage) WASHINGTON — One of the biggest stories of 2018 was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s success in ousting a senior New York...
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Black Jewish voices
Anthony Russell (Clara Rice Photography) NEW YORK — As Enzi Tanner participated in an online Havdalah ceremony marking the end of Shabbat on Saturday night, May 30, his city — Minneapolis — was being...
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Who and what are the Boogaloos?
Matt Marshall of the right-wing group Washington State Three Percent (3%) at the Capitol building on April 19, 2020 in Olympia, WA. (Karen Ducey/Getty) NEW YORK — There are men showing up to the George...
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Engel stung by Sanders’ nod to foe
House Foreign Affairs Committee Eliot Engel (D-NY) at the US Capitol January 14, 2020. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty) NEW YORK — Bernie Sanders just made Eliot Engel’s bad week worse. Engel, the 16-term...
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Acid fight at Presidents Conference
ZOA President Mort Klein at a House Judiciary Committee hearing. (Zach Gibson/Getty) WASHINGTON — Black Lives Matter “is a Jew hating, White hating, Israel hating, conservative Black hating, violence...
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Democrat letter: Do not annex West Bank
Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., is one of four authors of the letter. (Samuel Corum/Getty) WASHINGTON — House Democrats have put together a letter that they hope will unite their entire caucus in warning...
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Alumni ask day schools to fight racism
Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Maryland NEW YORK — When Ilana Goldberg scrolled through Instagram on June 9, much of her feed consisted of black squares as part of an initiative called...
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Calls to defund the police put Jewish institutions in a tough position
NYPD officers at the Union Temple of Brooklyn on Nov. 2, 2018.(Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty) The protest movement against the police has put synagogues and other Jewish institutions in a challenging...
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NEW YORK — John Bolton, a former Trump administration national security adviser, says in his new book that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu questioned Jared Kushner’s ability to develop a...
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St. Louis statue of Louis IX under attack
The Apotheosis of St. Louis, which stands in front of the St. Louis Art Museum. (Wikimedia Commons) ST. LOUIS — On top of a hill in front of an art museum in the biggest park in St. Louis stands a...
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Bolton book shifts the sands
John Bolton, pictured in Feb. 2020 (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty) WASHINGTON — In 2015, the Zionist Organization of America gave John Bolton a standing ovation when he said he wanted to be US president....
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Overnight camp decides to open — calls flood in
The ropes course at Camp Modin. (Courtesy of Camp Modin) NEW YORK — Last week, as he prepared to open Camp Modin and administer coronavirus tests to its hundreds of campers and staff, Howard Salzberg...
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IJN wins 12 Rockower awards in Jewish journalism
The Intermountain Jewish News took home 12 American Jewish Press Association awards at the 39th annual contest. The July 2 ceremony was held virtually this year due to the coronavirus pandemic....
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