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Madeleine Albright, trailblazer with complicated Jewish identity, dies
WASHINGTON — Madeleine Albright was the quintessential late 20th-century diplomat, determined to use what tools her adopted country had to crush inhumanity when it arose. Madeleine Albright on a visit...
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Lipstadt confirmed as anti-Semitism monitor
WASHINGTON — The Senate in a voice vote unanimously confirmed Deborah Lipstadt, the Holocaust scholar who endured delays and a contentious hearing in her nomination to be anti-Semitism monitor. Deborah...
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Chair that saved three Jews
By Andrew Lapin When the rabbi at the center of January’s synagogue hostage standoff first encountered the stranger who would soon hold him at gunpoint, he served him a cup of tea. Eleven hours later,...
View ArticleLocal rabbis weigh in: HUC closure?
It’s more than a thousand miles from Denver to Cincinnati, but a decision that will be made there next week is sure to reverberate in the Mile High City and everywhere else where Reform Judaism is...
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The great kosher chicken shortage
PASSOVER EDITION 5782 SECTION A PAGE 10 By Jackie Hajdenberg NEW YORK — The reports are coming fast and furious from the Costcos, butcheries and grocery stores of America: Kosher chicken is hard to...
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After 40 years, his wrongful conviction was overturned
BOSTON — Barry Jacobson spent 40 days in prison in 1983 after being convicted of setting a fire at his Massachusetts vacation home. Barry Jacobson, second from left in an undated photo. (Courtesy New...
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Biden to visit Israel
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden accepted an invitation to visit Israel amid differences between the allies over how best to contain Iran and the White House’s concern over mounting Israeli-Palestinian...
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Jewish donors support Liz Cheney
WASHINGTON — Liz Cheney, the Wyoming congresswoman who is perhaps the fiercest critic of Donald Trump, isn’t too popular in her party: The House Republican caucus demoted her from her leadership role...
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Harvard Crimson: Yes to BDS
BOSTON — For years, the editorial board of the Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper at Harvard University, has declined to back the movement to boycott Israel, even as it expressed concern about...
View ArticlePush back at Harvard Crimson’s BDS
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (JNS) — Since the Harvard Crimson’s endorsement of the anti-Israel BDS movement two weeks ago, a group of more than 70 members of Harvard’s faculty has begun a petition to condemn and...
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Lipstadt: ‘Anti-Semitism not taken seriously’
WASHINGTON — Anti-Semitism is often not taken seriously until it becomes deadly, said Deborah Lipstadt at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum on May 12, her first talk since her Senate confirmation in...
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Buffalo killer: ‘Jews can be dealt with in time’
By Ron Kampeas and Philissa Cramer BUFFALO — The man charged with killing 10 people at a Buffalo, NY supermarket on May 14 allegedly was motivated by an online manifesto attributed to himself, Payton...
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Jewish groups respond to baby formula shortage
By Channa Fischer Parents use baby formula for a variety of reasons. Some mothers are unable to breastfeed and others have children with allergies to breast milk. Allergies to certain types of formula...
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Jewish groups react to Uvalde shooting
WASHINGTON — After the school shooting in Uvalde, Tex. that killed 19 children and two adults on May 24, an array of Jewish groups issued statements that fell into two categories: generalized grief and...
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Debt cancellation: Shmita brings rabbi and minister together
By Jackie Hajdenberg and Gabe Friedman CHICAGO — More than half of bankruptcies in the US are connected to medical debt. For some families in the Chicago area, however, that debt is being erased in...
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To deter Iran, joint Arab, Israel, US air defense launched
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan slate of lawmakers launched a bill that would establish an “integrated air and missile defense capability” joining the US, Israel and Arab countries in a bid to deter Iran....
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Emhoff meets survivor — and his AI double
By Jacob Gurvis LOS ANGELES — When Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff sat down for a Zoom conversation with Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter on June 8, he opened by saying, “I feel like I already know...
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Houston rabbi is ‘CNN Hero’
HOUSTON — A Houston rabbi was named a CNN Hero for her work as the founder and CEO of Undies for Everyone, which provides underwear and dignity to children in need. Rabbi Amy Weiss Rabbi Amy Weiss...
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Lipstadt off to Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON — Deborah Lipstadt’s first overseas tour as the State Dept.’s anti-Semitism monitor will start in Saudi Arabia, a signal of the kingdom’s efforts to change its image in the West and among...
View ArticleDenverites were Highland Park witnesses
Three days after the Highland Park, Ill., mass shooting that killed seven and injured at least 38, Karen Zeller spoke to Temple Sinai (Denver) congregants during an online healing service on July 7....
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