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Jews struggle with how to react to seeing keffiyehs in public

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Jews struggle with how to react to seeing keffiyehs in public

Who are the Jews in Trump’s inner circle?

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What I learned from my father’s strange journey from Poland to Algeria, Kazakhstan and the California desert

A Black artist and a Jewish artist mock the KKK in a new Jewish Museum show

I research disappearing small-town Jewish communities. I’m finding the best of America.

Hulu’s ‘The Honorable Shyne’ documents the Jewish rapper’s beef with Diddy and new life as a politician in Belize

Why the Weitzman, a museum of American Jewish history, tapped an Israeli as its next CEO

ISRAEL

Biden administration sanctions Israeli settler group, in move that Trump could reverse

Top Canadian book prize to be awarded amid a flurry of protest over its sponsors’ ties to Israel

A Ben & Jerry’s battle over Israel, long frozen, thaws anew amid Gaza war

At an upscale Midtown club, Jewish supporters of Trump revel in his victory

In a federation official’s remark about resettling Gaza, signs of tension among Jewish groups in the new Trump era

Sam Salz is likely the first Orthodox Jew to appear in a Division I college football game

Who is Marc Rowan, the Jewish investor reportedly in the running for Trump’s Treasury secretary?

Streaming platform Twitch bans the word ‘Zionist’ as a proxy for spreading hate toward Jews and Israelis

White House, Ohio governor condemn neo-Nazi rally in downtown Columbus

National Book Awards defends lifetime award for influential Black publisher who reissued antisemitic books

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Actress Observing High Holy Days Fired from ‘Fiddler on Roof’ Cast

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