Denver native in Pittsburgh recounts events last Shabbat
That Saturday, Denver native Rebecca Tessler Pollack was at her in-laws home close to Tree of Life to help prepare Shabbat lunch instead of going to Poale Zedeck about a mile away. A neighbor...
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Pro- and anti-Israel forces win in midterm elections
Ron DeSantis (Jeff Mitchell) NEW YORK — Democrats took control of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections held Tuesday, Nov. 6, with Jewish Congress members poised to take key leadership...
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Guns: Two bereaved fathers differ
Fred Guttenberg at a CNN town hall meeting in Sunrise, Fla., Feb. 21, 2018. (Michael Laughlin/Sun Sentinel/TNS/Getty) MIAMI — Jaime Guttenberg and Meadow Pollack shared many similarities. Both were...
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Jewish women among Congress victors
Elaine Luria, left, and Elissa Slotkin are among the new faces in Congress. WASHINGTON — Last week’s midterm elections were hailed as a victory for gender parity, as an unprecedented number of women...
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Alyssa Milano refuses to speak at Women’s March
Alyssa Milano NEW YORK — Actress and activist Alyssa Milano said she won’t speak at the next Women’s March if it is organized by two current leaders who will not condemn anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan. In...
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Ilhan Omar: Overturn head covering ban
Ilhan Omar (Astrid Stawiarz/Getty) WASHINGTON — A 181-year-old rule banning Congress members from wearing hats of any kind could be overturned in order to accommodate a newly elected Muslim lawmaker...
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California wildfire: ‘Catastrophic’
A view of the Ilan Ramon Day School in Agoura, Calif., after the fire. (Yuri Hronsky) By Gabrielle Birkner LOS ANGELES — The Woolsey Fire, which has engulfed a massive swath of Southern California, had...
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Ocasio-Cortez compares US border situation to WW II refugees
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Mario Tama/Getty) WASHINGTON — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is just one of 435 members of the incoming US House of Representatives, but her youth, surprise primary win in her...
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Remembering Pres. Bush’s complex Jewish legacy
US President George Bush with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1992. (Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty) WASHINGTON — President George H. W. Bush’s public grappling with Jewish leaders made headlines...
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US media struggle to understand complex reality of Iranian Jewry
An Iranian Jewish woman casts her vote at the Yusef Abad Synagogue, February 26, 2016. (Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency/Getty) By Larry Cohler-Esses NEW YORK — Several days after the Jewish Daily...
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Non-rabbi heads HUC
Andrew Rehfeld NEW YORK —The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion has appointed Andrew Rehfeld, a political science professor who has led the Jewish Federation of St. Louis since 2012, to...
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Alice Walker endorses anti-Semite’s book
Alice Walker (Mark Sagliocco/Getty) By Sam Sokol NEW YORK — Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alice Walker has come under intense criticism after endorsing a book by anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist David...
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Women’s March fractured by internal conflicts, anti-Semitism allegations
Women’s March on Washington, Jan. 21, 2017. (Mario Tama/Getty) NEW YORK — When the Women’s March galvanized millions of women in 2017 as a response to the inauguration of Donald Trump as president,...
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Mattis resignation highlights foreign policy arguments
Retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis (Leigh Vogel/WireImage) WASHINGTON — James Mattis is quitting as defense secretary and his extraordinary resignation letter has brought into the open an argument...
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Is Facebook monitoring harmful content?
Mark Zuckerberg (Justin Sullivan/Getty) NEW YORK — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg insists that the massive social network is a force for good, but the company keeps getting called out for being slow...
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Killing of Palestinian: a war crime?
Palestinian protesters during a protest calling for lifting the Israeli blockade on Gaza and demand the right to return to their homeland, at the Israel-Gaza border fence, east of Gaza City September...
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Crossing lines: Christian Zionists meet Jewish liberals
John Hagee WASHINGTON — Christians United for Israel is no stranger in this city: It has become a key player in recent years in Congress’ passing of pro-Israel legislation, often of the kind favored by...
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Pro-BDS lawmaker Omar on foreign relations committee
Ilhan Omar (Lorie Shaull/Flickr) WASHINGTON — Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, was named last week to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a significant “get” for a first-term lawmaker. Omar...
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ADL senior VP, Iran native, reflects on anti-Semitism today
Sharon Nazarian The bad news first: Anti-Semitism throughout much of the world is not only alive and well, but growing. Then a touch of good news: It’s probably not as bad as it seems. Those are among...
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Siblings lay down the law
Rabbi Yehiel Kalish and Dafna Michaelson Jenet pictured in the Colorado State Capitol in 2017. NEW YORK — Colorado Rep. Dafna Michaelson Jenet and newly appointed Illinois legislator Rabbi Yehiel...
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