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Alleged Nashville school shooter appears to have praised Hitler and shared neo-Nazi content

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Left: Elon Musk's salute at an Inauguration Day rally (Screenshot). Right: ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, pictured in 2018 (Getty Images)

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American hostage Keith Siegel reportedly to be released from Gaza next week

Could Donald Trump be the next liberal Zionist hero?

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Bishop Mariann Budde angered Donald Trump with her inauguration sermon. Rabbis like me should have such courage.

An installation in Pennsylvania marks a milestone in the journey of Orthodox women rabbinic leaders

Why everyone is quoting Hannah Arendt, sometimes even accurately

Louisville Orchestra remembers its concertmaster with an opera he played in a Nazi concentration camp

Elon Musk makes Holocaust jokes after Netanyahu defends him as ‘great friend of Israel’

ISRAEL

Report: Freed hostage Emily Damari asked if American-Israeli Keith Siegel could take her place

Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s high school has lost 10 graduates in the Gaza war. Where does it go next?

Edit wars over Israel spur rare ban of 8 Wikipedia editors — from both sides

Jewish postwar epic ‘The Brutalist’ picks up 10 Oscar nominations, with ‘A Complete Unknown’ close behind

Alleged Nashville school shooter appears to have praised Hitler and shared neo-Nazi content

Nova massacre survivor Yuval Raphael to represent Israel in 2025 Eurovision music contest

Belgium’s railway should apologize but not pay for sending Jews to Nazi death camps, government panel concludes

Lee Yaron’s account of Oct. 7 attacks named Jewish book of the year

How did the ADL conclude that Elon Musk didn’t give a Nazi salute? It isn’t saying.

Elise Stefanik decries ‘antisemitic rot’ in United Nations, backs Elon Musk at confirmation hearing

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