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Graffiti in Maryland. Bomb threats to synagogues. Bricks thrown through windows and antisemitic fliers distributed. Read more in this week’s Antisemitism Monitor Newsletter. ...

When she died on October 2 at age 96, Alice Shalvi left behind scores of mourning family members and friends

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New York’s 3rd is America’s third most Jewish congressional district. And Santos’ untruths about his Jewish identity have served as a powerful motivator for people running to replace him. ...

Jewish Politics & Power is published every other week. Sign up for our newsletter for updates. 1. Biden’s Gift to Israelis Early

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The news that President Carter’s United Nations ambassador, Andrew Young, had met in New York with a PLO representative spread furiously among the mostly Jewish residents of the new high-rise condominiums along southern Florida’s Gold Coast. ...
Rachel Binstock says that the 39 melachot are what create the meaning of Shabbat, but it is rare for Jews to practice the original forms of labor during the other 144 hours of the week because modern technologies have made them mostly obsolete. ...

It’s the season of return—literally. Earlier this week, making plans to schlep the family back to the New York shul

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“The tradition of sending out greeting cards at the start of the Jewish month of Elul probably dates to the

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Bricha guides didn’t allow refugees to carry lights, not only to be invisible to border guards but also so they could not see the plunging drop-offs beside the trail. ...

At the 2023 World Athletic Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Ethiopian-Israeli Maru Teferi won the silver medal in the men’s marathon,

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By now it shouldn’t surprise anyone when Elon Musk makes an attention-grabbing announcement on social media. His posts on X

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Some Jewish artists are unwilling to be confined to what artist Rachel Libeskind calls the “claustrophobic limbo” of Germany’s past. ...