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Anti-Jewish violence shakes Boston

BOSTON — Days after a series of violent acts stunned Greater Boston and threatened its Jewish community, residents are jolted but resolute, vowing to continue taking pride in their Jewish identity....

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More American Jews critical of Israel

WASHINGTON — A survey of US Jewish voters taken after the Israel-Gaza conflict finds that a sizable minority believe some of the harshest criticisms of Israel, including that it is committing genocide...

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When Holocaust education meets critical race theory

By Eleanor Stern NEW ORLEANS — At first, Danny Mintz was excited to learn that lawmakers in his state, Louisiana, were considering mandating Holocaust education in public schools. A view of the...

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Five states consider sanctions on Ben & Jerry’s

WASHINGTON — Could Ben & Jerry’s decision to stop selling its ice cream in the West Bank trigger many or all of the laws that US states have passed in recent years to hurt the Israel boycott...

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Sen. Carl Levin dies

DETROIT — Carl Levin, the Jewish Michigander who spent 36 years as a focused public servant and pro-Israel voice in the Senate, has died at 87. The Levin Center at Wayne State University Law School...

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Pro-Israel candidate wins in Ohio race

CLEVELAND — Shontel Brown, a Cuyahoga County councilwoman, came from behind in the polls to win a critical Democratic primary in a Cleveland area district with a substantial Jewish population. Shontel...

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Is foreign aid to Israel being conditioned?

WASHINGTON — The annual bill that determines what funds the US will disburse overseas passed last week, and it has new language. Howard Kohr, CEO of AIPAC, testifies before the House Appropriations...

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JewBelong fights anti-Semitism with eye-catching messages

By Eliyahu Kamisher, J., The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA SAN FRANCISCO — Dozens of hot-pink billboards and transit ads have appeared in major American cities over the last month,...

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Who is NY Gov. Kathy Hochul?

By Stewart Ain, New York Jewish Week via JTA NEW YORK — Kathy Hochul, who is set to succeed Andrew Cuomo as governor of New York, is no stranger to the New York Jewish community. New York Lt. Gov....

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‘No legitimate opposition’ to Syed

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat, is one of Israel’s staunchest defenders in Congress — and he thinks Republican attacks on one of President Joe Biden’s nominees as anti-Israel is...

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Northeast mop-up in high gear

By Faygie Holt The Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest, NJ, announced Sept. 3 it will make an emergency allocation of up to $25,000 to help low-income families in Elizabeth, NJ, whose homes were...

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Burlington, Vermont won’t embrace BDS

BURLINGTON, Vt. — The sponsor of a bill that would have made Burlington, Vt. the first city in America to divest from Israel is withdrawing his legislation, citing concerns that it would promote...

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Not kosher: Impossible Pork

By Jacob Gurvis NEW YORK — Impossible Foods, the plant-based meat company, is releasing a long-awaited new product — but unlike the wildly popular Impossible Burger, it won’t be certified kosher....

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Harris silent on ‘genocide’

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris “strongly disagrees” with a university student who told her that Israel was carrying out “ethnic genocide,” her office said, pushing back against claims that...

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The originals recognize the originals

By Larry Brook, Israel InSight The Northeast Alabama Cherokee held a ceremony on Sept. 25 in Guntersville, Ala., to establish a relationship with Israel. Northeast Alabama Cherokee Chief Larry Smith...

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Colin Powell dies; the former Joint Chiefs spoke Yiddish

WASHINGTON — Colin Powell will be remembered in history as the first black US national security advisor, the first black military chief of staff and the first black secretary of state. US Sec. of State...

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On Iran, Blinken says that ‘every’ option on the table

WASHINGTON — Yair Lapid got what he wanted out of his Washington visit: the word “every,” instead of “other.” Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, left, with US Sec. of State Antony Blinken at the...

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Spain rejecting citizenship applications

By Julia Gergely NEW YORK — After Spain announced it would offer citizenship to families of Jews it expelled more than 500 years ago, Mark Tafoya, a personal chef living in New York City, filled out an...

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Sunrise DC singles out Jewish groups; national movement objects

WASHINGTON — The national Sunrise Movement, an environmental advocacy group, said that a statement by its Washington, DC chapter was “unacceptable and anti-Semitic” because it called for disassociating...

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After Pittsburgh: Can synagogues feel open with locked doors?

In a sense, the Jewish communal reactions to the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh and the coronavirus pandemic were diametric opposites. L-r: Rabbi Daniel Berman; Rabbi David Lyon; Rabbi Elazar Muskin...

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