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AIPAC reaches out to progressives
Benjamin Netanyahu at the 2018 AIPAC conference.(Ashernet) WASHINGTON — The American Israel Public Affairs Committee opened its arms to progressives this week, launching its annual policy conference...
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Aly Raisman sues US Olympic committee
Aly Raisman at the 2016 Rio Olympics. (Tom Pennington/Getty) LOS ANGELES — Aly Raisman sued the US Olympic Committee and USA Gymnastics alleging negligence for not stopping former US Olympics...
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How ‘Never Again’ became the rallying cry for gun control
Students at a Feb. 21 protest against gun violence. (Alex Wong/Getty) By Emily Burack NEW YORK — After a gunman took the lives of 17 students and staff at their high school in Parkland, Fla., students...
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Cemetery vandalism in St. Louis wasn’t hate crime
Workers place headstones back on their bases on Feb. 21, 2017 at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in St. Louis. (James Griesedieck/St. Louis Jewish Light) ST. LOUIS — A man from suburban St. Louis has been...
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Trump pulls out of Iran deal
Pres. Donald Trump announces his decision to withdraw the US from the JCPOA. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would not waive sanctions on Iran by a deadline...
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Head of HUC dies in a plane crash
Rabbi Aaron Panken NEW YORK — Rabbi Andrea Weiss, an associate professor of Bible at the New York campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and its incoming provost, remembered the...
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Intra-Jewish relations deteriorate
Jonathan Greenblatt, left, and Mort Zuckerman WASHINGTON — Last year, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations updated its secret rules to ban “insults, ad hominem attacks,...
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NYU hospital kicks out Bikur Cholim organization
NYU Langone Hospital no longer allows the free kosher food deliveries of Satmar Bikur Cholim. By Debra Nussbaum Cohen NEW YORK— For years, volunteers from the Satmar chasidic movement have fanned out...
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Philip Roth, Jewish-American novelist, dies
Philip Roth (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty) NEW YORK — Philip Roth, the novelist, died Tuesday, May 22. He was 85. His death was confirmed to The New York Times by his friend, Judith Thurman. Early in his...
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Michael Chabon: Jews marrying Jews is wrong
Michael Chabon (Andrew Toth/Getty) LOS ANGELES — Novelist Michael Chabon delivered a diatribe against Jewish inmarriage, as well as Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, in a commencement speech to...
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Hospital responds to Bikur Cholim
Dr. Andrew Brotman, left; Blima Marcus By Debra Nussbaum Cohen NEW YORK — One of this city’s largest hospitals has accused a chasidic group that visits sick patients of lying about the hospital’s...
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Was the opening of the Jerusalem embassy partisan?
US Amb. to Israel David Friedman at the embassy opening in Jerusalem. (Lior Mizrahi/Getty) WASHINGTON — A fight over who was and wasn’t invited to the US Embassy dedication in Jerusalem last month is...
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Anti-Semitic charges in tow congressional races
Leslie Cockburn, left; John Fitzgerald WASHINGTON — Two congressional races have been beset in recent days with charges of anti-Semitism, and each case — in California and in Virginia — uncovers...
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Who’s eating the cake?
Jack Phillips (Joe Amon/The Denver Post/ Getty) NEW YORK — Seven Supreme Court justices sided with a Colorado baker in his legal fight with a homosexual couple, and seven major Jewish groups weighed in...
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Palestinian narrative comes to Jewish summer camps
A camp counselor training by IfNotNow in the Boston area, 2018. NEW YORK — When Aviva Schwartz started praying publicly for Palestinians at her Jewish summer camp, she knew it would be controversial....
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Fight over Touro Synagogue heads to Supreme Court
Touro Synagogue, nestled in historic Newport, Rhode Island. (John Nordell/ Christian Science Monitor/Getty) BOSTON — The legal fight over ownership of the country’s oldest synagogue is headed to the US...
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When Mary McCabe explains America’s immigration courts to children who have been separated from their parents, she tries to make it interactive. She draws a sketch of a courtroom and asks kids to...
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Kushner blames Abbas for failure
Jared Kushner (Al Drago-Pool/Getty) By Charles Dunst NEW YORK — Saying a US plan for Middle East peace would be released “soon,” Jared Kushner sharply criticized PA President Mahmoud Abbas in what...
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Bloomberg to spend $80 million for Democrats
Michael Bloomberg (Matthew Stockman/Getty) NEW YORK — Michael Bloomberg will spend $80 million in an effort to help elect Democrats in the midterm elections. The Jewish media mogul and former New York...
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Justice Kennedy retires, Jewish groups react
US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy (Eric Thayer/Getty) By Charles Dunst NEW YORK — Not an hour after Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement last week as associate justice on the Supreme Court,...
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