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Florida’s Todd Golden becomes first Jewish coach to win March Madness since 1988

Golden, 39, is also the youngest coach to win it all since the NCAA men’s basketball tournament expanded into its current structure in 1985.

Todd Golden

Israel

‘Qatar-gate’ and the complicated web of major scandals rocking Israel, explained

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Ideas

You need a non-Jewish neighbor to perform this Passover ritual. Thank heavens.

Ideas

How ‘October 8’ and ‘The Encampments,’ two new documentaries on America post-Oct. 7, talk right past each other

Ideas

The Passover seder is a model for healing democracies in peril

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Todd Golden

Sports

1 Jewish coach still in NCAA title contention as Todd Golden’s Florida faces Houston in men’s basketball final

Dennis Gaitsgory (left) and guest attend the 11th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Barker Hangar on April 5, 2025 in Santa Monica, California. (Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize)

Global

Breakthrough Prize winner Dennis Gaitsgory is planning to attend a protest in Israel

Val Kilmer in "Top Secret!" (Screenshot)

Culture

‘That’s Simchas Torah’: The Jewish Val Kilmer moment you might have missed

ISRAEL

Israel

Asked if he plans to drop 17% tariff on Israeli goods, Trump says, ‘Maybe not’

Israeli soldiers guard in the northern West Bank on May 29, 2023. (Flash90)

Israel

14-year-old Palestinian-American killed by Israeli fire in West Bank, officials say

Politics

Netanyahu in Washington again to meet with Trump to discuss tariffs, Gaza

Some of Starship Bagel's fare. (Screenshot)

Food

Texas bakery reportedly becomes first bagel shop to be named James Beard Award finalist

A photo of Tessa Veksler, an interviewee in the documentary "October 8."

Culture

From ‘October 8’ to ‘The Encampments,’ these new documentaries illuminate the post-Oct. 7 American experience

Jews at a rally holding signs reading "Jews and Muslims United" and "Jews Against Illegal Abductions"

Politics

Jews at Tufts are furious over ICE seizing a pro-Palestinian grad student. But they’re wary of joining protests for her.

New York Jewish Week

A view of UJA-Federation of New York's headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. (Screenshot from Google Maps)

New York

UJA-Federation of New York’s midtown office building evacuated

New York

Iconic UWS Jewish grocery Zabar’s collaborates with Nordstrom

Lubavitcher Rebbe Way.

New York

A Brooklyn street gets co-named for late Chabad rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Politics

Federal spending cuts could affect aid for Holocaust survivors and kosher Meal on Wheels deliveries

Sen. John Fetterman and Gisele Barreto Fetterman, pictured in 2023. (Patricia Schlein/Star Max/GC Images)

United States

Pennsylvania Jewish groups condemn ‘genocide’ slogan on Gisele Fetterman’s charity

A photo of Noah Wyle in HBO's "The Pitt."

Culture

Noah Wyle, star of HBO’s ‘The Pitt,’ recites Shema on screen

A photo of Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio.

Politics

A Republican senator called Chuck Schumer ‘Fuhrer’

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