(JTA) – I read a lot about antisemitism – as a professor researching prejudice, as a former fellow at a Holocaust memorial center, as a blogger for The Times of Israel, as the son of a …
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TODD L. PITTINSKY
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7/7/23
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As Jewish media far and wide started picking up on the story of this week’s devastating flood in Houston, which hit Jewish-heavy neighborhoods particularly hard, JNS.org was (in my own estimation) conspicuously late to join the reporting. That is …
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JACOB KAMARAS/JNS.org
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6/5/15
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Steve Lustig’s experience at Arlington National Cemetery, as he buried his father on the same week as his dad’s West Point roommate, and brother, were laid to rest, was a compelling, …
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LARRY KESSLER
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5/3/18
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(JTA) – For the Jewish community, 2020 has been historic, turbulent and revelatory. The year began with 25,000 people, Jews and non-Jews, marching across the Brooklyn Bridge to take a stand …
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SHIRA FEDER
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1/7/21
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(JTA) — Last year saw the most anti-Semitic incidents in the United States since at least 1979, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
The 2,107 incidents recorded in 2019 reflect a 12% …
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Ben Sales
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5/12/20
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The overturn of Roe v. Wade in the Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson is bringing drastic changes to women’s reproductive rights across this country. Don’t miss this …
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7/13/22
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – With the sudden passing this weekend of Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court is now split 4-4 between liberals and conservatives, throwing into doubt how the court will rule on a raft of cases – including several watched …
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RON KAMPEAS
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2/19/16
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JTA – Billionaire businessman and philanthropist David Rubenstein has donated $18.5 million to repair and restore the Lincoln Memorial.
The donation from Rubenstein, the co-CEO of The Carlyle Group, to the National Park Foundation’s …
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2/19/16
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(JTA) — After Shaul Moshi died last week in Los Angeles at the age of 94, over 100 people gathered at his home for the traditional shiva minyan.
It was Wednesday night — before the synagogues …
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Ben Harris
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3/18/20
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On Oct. 6, JTA led its morning newsletter with an article that had long been in the works – and that we expected to drive conversation in the days ahead: It was a profile of a Jewish dad in …
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BEN SALES (JTA)
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1/7/24
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