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World ORT honored with MLK award
Dr Conrad Giles with the Let Freedom Ring Humanitarian Award ORT received the Let Freedom Ring Humanitarian Award from the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and Citizenship Education Fund in Detroit, Mich., on...
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Parkland one year later
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Rep. Omar: ‘AIPAC buys politicians’
AIPAC Policy Conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, March 6, 2018. (Michael Brochstein/Getty) WASHINGTON — US Rep. Ilhan Omar started a firestorm by saying on Twitter that AIPAC pays...
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Hickenlooper throws his hat in the ring
John Hickenlooper as mayor, pictured atop the Denver City and County Building. (Shari Valenta/IJN) Colorado Jewry hardly needs to be introduced to John Hickenlooper, the former state governor and...
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With ‘Jexodus’, Trump challenges, angers Israel bipartisanship
AIPAC maintains its bipartisanship and Democrats are furious at Trump’s statements that they are anti-Israel. (Michael Brochstein/Getty) WASHINGTON — The House hearing was about foreign aid, and almost...
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The Omar issue isn’t going away
Rep. Ilhan Omar, l, with Rep. Nancy Pelosi, March 8, 2019. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty) WASHINGTON — Democrats came to an agreement last week on a resolution to denounce anti-Semitism and other forms of...
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Milstein pulls out of AIPAC conference
Adam Milstein (Lev Radin via Getty Images) WASHINGTON — Adam Milstein, a major pro-Israel funder, has withdrawn from speaking at next week’s annual AIPAC policy conference following a series of tweets...
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AIPAC says it won’t be ‘silenced’
Benjamin Netanyahu at the 2018 AIPAC conference.(Ashernet) WASHINGTON — The American Israel Public Affairs Committee wants you to know it will not be silenced. “When they try to silence us, we speak...
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At AIPAC, sparring on what defines anti-Semitism
Sen. Chuck Schumer at the 2019 AIPAC conference. WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said at AIPAC: “It will always be wrong to use anti-Semitism as a political weapon, always,” Schumer said,...
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Rep. Omar’s Jewish advisor
Rep. Ilhan Omar, with her spokesman, Jeremy Slevin, March 15, 2019. (Tom Brenner/Getty) WASHINGTON — Almost as soon as a conference call started between Ilhan Omar, the controversial congresswoman, and...
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Measles outbreak started in Ukraine, traveled to Israel, Brooklyn
(Hannah Smith/KOMU/Flickr) JERUSALEM — Israel’s measles outbreak took off in September after thousands of mostly chasidic Orthodox pilgrims brought the virus back from Uman, Ukraine. Tens of thousands...
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It’s not ‘Jewish continuity’ anymore
Birthright participants at the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve (Melanie Fidler/Flash90 NEW YORK — The first time Ross Beroff met Michael Steinhardt, the megadonor offered him and a young woman $100 to go into...
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Measles and Passover hotels: a challenge
A sign warns people of measles in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on April 10, 2019. (Spencer Platt/Getty) NEW YORK — In January, before a measles outbreak spread in a few Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in New...
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Six Jewish takeaways from the Mueller reports
US Attorney General William Barr speaks about the release of the Mueller report, April 18, 2019. US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, r, and US Acting Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General...
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Trump picks Kelly Craft for US ambassador to UN
Amb. Kelly Craft with US Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford. (DoD Photo/US Army Sgt. James K. McCann) With US President Donald Trump nominating Acting US Ambassador to the United Nations Jonathan Cohen to...
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An angel from Poway
Lori Gilbert-Kaye POWAY, Calif. — Lori Gilbert-Kaye, who was killed in the attack at a Chabad synagogue near San Diego, is credited with jumping in front of the synagogue’s rabbi to shield him from the...
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Trump’s religious freedom changes hearten some Jews, rattle others
Rabbi Abba Cohen, far left, with Karen Pence and Vice President Mike Pence at a National Day of Prayer service in the White House Rose Garden, May 2, 2019. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty) WASHINGTON —...
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Herman Wouk and the mainstream
Herman Wouk (Alex Gotfryd/Corbis via Getty) By Rachel Gordon BOSTON — Herman Wouk, the bestselling Orthodox Jewish author whose literary career spanned nearly seven decades and who helped usher Judaism...
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Al Sharpton says he regrets his ‘cheap’ rhetoric
Al Sharpton speaking on April 29, 2019. (Spencer Platt/Getty) WASHINGTON — Al Sharpton appealed to Reform Jews for a united front in facing down anti-Semitism, racism and other forms of bias and...
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Who are the Sacklers, the family at the heart of the opioid crisis?
The Sackler Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Spencer Platt/Getty) NEW YORK — In the 1930s, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler both traveled to Scotland for medical school because, they said, American...
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