Surveys take temperature on anti-Semitism
By Faygie Holt For the third year in a row, the American Jewish Committee has released a survey about anti-Semitism in the US and found large discrepancies in results between Jewish and non-Jewish...
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Desecration of imitation Torah triggers real mourning
WASHINGTON — Bennett Pittel bore the tiny imitation Torah, its pages creased and unraveled from the wood-colored plastic rollers, on a yellow dish rag. Rabbi Yudi Steiner leads George Washington...
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Ready, set…pray
By Julia Gergely NEW YORK— On Sunday, Nov. 7, for the 36th time, Peter Berkowsky planned to wake up at 3:00 a.m., drive in the dark from his home in Livingston, NJ to Fort Wadsworth in Staten Island...
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Infrastructure bill includes $50 million for nonprofits
By Dmitriy Shapiro President Joe Biden held an outdoor ceremony at the White House on Monday to sign the hard-won Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, otherwise known as the infrastructure bill,...
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HUC report documents decades of abuse
By Philissa Cramer and Asaf Shalev NEW YORK — Sexual harassers led the Reform movement’s rabbinical school for more than three decades, according to an explosive new report commissioned by the school....
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Deputy anti-Semitism envoy named
CHANUKAH 5782 SECTION A PAGE 15 By Dmitriy Shapiro WASHINGTON — Democratic consultant Aaron Keyak, 36, has been appointed to serve as US Deputy Envoy to Monitor and Combat anti-Semitism after recently...
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In Kentucky, Jewish groups step up to help
By Faygie Holt The last time Rabbi Shlomo Litvin, co-director of Chabad of the Bluegrass, had been in Hopkinsville, Ky., he was joined by thousands of other people to see a total eclipse. A Jewish man...
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Will Trump-Bibi spat affect Trump’s standing among Jewish conservatives?
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has kept Jewish Republicans in his corner, despite a series of remarks about Jews that have raised eyebrows in conservative circles. President Donald Trump meets with Israeli...
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Biden administration quiet on Golan Heights
By Dmitriy Shapiro As Israel is set to invest 1 billion shekels ($317.3 million) into developments to increase the population in the Golan Heights, American experts believe the move announced by...
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Colleyville — a timeline
All four hostages at a synagogue in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area were declared “out alive and safe” by Texas Governor Greg Abbott at 9:33 p.m. CST on Saturday, Jan. 15, following a 12-hour...
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‘Terrified’— Colleyville rabbi shares experience, credits security training
COLLEYVILLE, Tex. — Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker has publicly described for the first time the moment he and two other hostages escaped a gunman in his synagogue in Colleyville, Texas on Jan 15. Rabbi...
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Ann Arbor denounces shul protesters
By Andrew Lapin ANN ARBOR, Mich. — For 18 years, a group of protesters has gathered every Saturday outside one of this city’s synagogues during Shabbat morning services, brandishing signs with slogans...
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Maus axed, deemed ‘inappropriate’
By Philissa Creamer CHATTANOOGA — A Tennessee school board voted unanimously to remove Maus, Art Spiegelman’s graphic memoir about his father’s Holocaust experience, from its curriculum after board...
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Lipstadt has confirmation hearing
WASHINGTON (JNS) — Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden administration’s nominee, to lead the State Dept.’s office that monitors and combats anti-Semitism appeared in the Senate on Tuesday, Feb. 8, for her...
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Touro Synagogue board faces eviction
NEW YORK — The historic New York City synagogue that controls the equally historic Touro Synagogue in Newport, RI moved to terminate the lease of the congregation that worships there. Touro Synagogue,...
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Jews disqualified for adoption
By Asaf Shalev KNOXVILLE — Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram knew their Jewishness would become known sooner or later. Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram (Courtesy) They weren’t going to conceal the...
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The legendary Trude Feldman
WASHINGTON — The scene as I remember it is the outside of a Washington hotel, one of the stately luxury palaces Israeli leaders indulge when they’re here on business. A gaggle of Israeli and Jewish...
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Louisville mayoral candidate ‘retraumatized’
By Andrew Lapin LOUISVILLE — The Jewish mayoral candidate in Louisville, Ky., who was the target of a shooting on Feb. 14, said the release of the alleged gunman two days later has left him and his...
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Reform movement publishes third inquiry into misconduct
By Asaf Shalev NEW YORK — The last of three investigations into sexual misconduct in the Reform movement concluded last week with the release of a report focused on failures in programs serving youth....
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All 25 Jewish Democrats slam Amnesty
WASHINGTON — All 25 Jewish Democrats in the House, a fractious caucus that rarely unanimously agrees on issues of Jewish interest, signed onto a statement slamming recent comments by Amnesty...
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