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This is a scenario some are now looking at, as Pete Buttigieg, even younger and less experienced than Obama was at the time, is having his moment. The 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana is surging in Iowa, the first state to vote in February. He is now polling at ...
In the years since his death, scholars, biographers and those who knew him remain split. ...
Orthodox Jews are Trump’s strongest—and only—reliable support base within the Jewish community. Polling shows that more than half of those identifying as Orthodox voted for Trump in 2016. The president also enjoys strong approval ratings within the Orthodox community since taking office. This unlikely political alliance, between a segment of ...
As we approach the first yahrtzeit of the Pittsburgh attack, it may be worthwhile taking a moment to look at what has been done, and what still needs to be done, to make sure it is a commemoration of past evil, not a turning point in American Jewish life. ...
“This latest has been my fourth cancer bout," Ginsburg said. “And I found each time that when I'm active, I feel much better than if I'm just lying about and feeling sorry for myself.” ...
On September 24, 1950, Israel concluded Operation Magic Carpet, transporting over 45,000 Yemenite Jews to the Jewish state. To commemorate
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"I get paid to go to YU,” said Joy Ladin, an openly transgender professor at Stern College, in her speech. “But queer students are paying to be trashed in classes to have humanity denied, to have halacha warped around values of homophobia and xenophobia and transphobia, rather than values that ...
"Few people have never been mistreated or hurt others. Jewish tradition makes demands of both parties." ...
“The Spy,” Netflix’s new show starring Sacha Baron Cohen, retells the heroic story of legendary Mossad agent Eli Cohen during
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Meisels described a “complete lack of LGBT representation” at YU. “If there is any discussion of LGBT individuals on campus it is always negative and always involves homophobic rhetoric,” she said. “It’s a social thing,” explained Dov Alberstone, an openly gay senior at Yeshiva College “It’s the things that people ...
Astrology has a rich cultural history in Judaism. ...
At the U Street Music Hall, four determined contestants competed in Washington, DC’s Mr. Nice Jewish Boy (NJB) pageant on Sunday. ...