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A tale of glory, dementia and the law
Jacob Henry, New York Jewish Week NEW YORK — The latest chapter of the surreal saga over who is making decisions for the aged pop artist Peter Max is pitting two children of Holocaust survivors against...
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Meta’s new bot: anti-Jewish, or just stupid?
By Dmitriy Shapiro A new artificial intelligence chatbot released on Aug. 5 by Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, is under fire for its anti-Semitic and anti-Israel rhetoric, and...
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Texas school district orders ‘Anne Frank’ removal
A school district in suburban Fort Worth, Texas, has ordered its librarians to remove an illustrated adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank from their shelves and digital libraries, along with the Bible...
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New White House liaison to the Jewish community
Shelley Greenspan’s resume runs the gamut from Capitol Hill to the private sector, presidential races and nonprofits. She has worked for AIPAC and Amazon, and campaigned for Hillary Clinton and Joe...
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Politics of nature
Gabe Stutman, j. the Jewish News of Northern California via JTA SAN FRANCISCO — Five months after canceling its planned trips to Israel, and then — following outrage from Jewish organizations —...
View ArticleGreeting migrants
The first sight that many of the migrants who have arrived over the last few weeks at the Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan after a long ride from the southern US border in Texas see is a...
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New York to oversee non-public schools
ROSH HASHANAH 5783 SECTION A PAGE 15 By Faygie Holt On Sept. 13, the New York State Board of Regents voted to allow significant oversight of all non-public schools in the state; it is a measure many...
View ArticleNo surprise: Jews favor Dems
WASHINGTON — A poll showed that the Supreme Court’s removal of abortion protections and concerns about democracy are driving Jewish turnout in November, which will favor Democrats substantially. The...
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Orthodox groups joining mailman’s Supreme Court case
WASHINGTON — A number of Orthodox Jewish groups are filing friend of the court briefs on behalf of an evangelical Christian postal worker who is taking his case to get Sundays off to the Supreme Court....
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‘Jew-free’ zones at UC Berkeley?
BERKELEY, Calif. — It seemed like a headline out of the 19th century: a warning of “Jew-free zones” at the University of California-Berkeley. University of California-Berkeley law school. (Jane...
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Stanford apologizes, 70 years later
By Asaf Elia-Shalev STANFORD, Calif. — An official investigation by Stanford University released on Oct. 12 confirmed longstanding suspicions that university administrators acted to limit Jewish...
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Adidas boots Kanye
NEW YORK — The athletic wear company Adidas is ending its relationship with Kanye West, days after the rapper boasted that he could “literally say anti-Semitic [expletive deleted] and they cannot drop...
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Black-Jewish caucus loses its founder
WASHINGTON — As she nears her retirement from Congress, Brenda Lawrence knows her work bringing Jews and blacks together is not finished. Her latest reminder: Kanye West. Michigan Democratic Rep....
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In New York, two arrested in ‘developing threat’
NEW YORK (New York Jewish Week) — Two men were arrested on Nov. 19 at Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan for what the New York Police Department called “a developing threat to the Jewish community.”...
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‘Maus’ among books pulled from some Missouri shelves
ST. LOUIS — Art Spiegelman’s Maus, along with six books about the Holocaust geared toward young readers, are among the hundreds of books that a handful of school districts in Missouri have reportedly...
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Why Jews thrived in Hollywood — and what they sacrificed for it
NEW YORK — On “Saturday Night Live” earlier this month, Dave Chappelle really wanted his audience to know there are a lot of Jews in Hollywood. American film executives Jack Warner, left, and Louis...
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Trump’s dinner leaves a bad taste
MIAMI — Two weeks after feting Donald Trump as America’s most pro-Israel president ever, the Zionist Organization of America had harsh words for the man who aspires to return to the White House. Sen....
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Is congressman Jewish or Catholic?
WASHINGTON — On Sunday night, Dec. 18, George Santos joined the Republican Jewish Coalition on Long Island, where he was just elected to Congress, for a menorah-lighting to mark the first night of...
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Biden cites Chanukah with Zelensky
WASHINGTON — During a closely-watched press conference with Ukraine’s Jewish president, Volodymr Zelensky, President Joe Biden brought up the Chanukah story, comparing Ukraine’s struggle against Russia...
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330 US rabbis will ban extremist elements of Netanyahu’s government
NEW YORK — More than 330 American rabbis are pledging to block members of the Religious Zionist bloc in Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government from speaking at their synagogues and will lobby to keep them...
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