WASHINGTON (JTA) – George H.W. Bush was a man of uncommon decency. He also was a man of uncommon integrity.
I worked for him for over 10 years, while he was the vice president …
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MARSHALL BREGER
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12/6/18
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JTA – Earlier this year, our colleagues at the three leading Jewish newspapers in the United Kingdom published the same front-page headline and joint editorial voicing concern over …
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11/8/18
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JTA – The Paul E. Singer Foundation said it will give at least $1 million to help secure Jewish institutions around New York in response to the shooting attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue that …
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11/8/18
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JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The deadly shooting at a Conservative synagogue in Pittsburgh has underlined tensions in Israel over the haredi Orthodox rabbinic establishment's disenfranchisement of the …
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MARCY OSTER
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10/30/18
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WASHINGTON (JTA) – When Ron DeSantis, the Republican congressman running for governor of Florida, was asked in a debate to defend his record on race, he pivoted to his Democratic …
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RON KAMPEAS
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10/25/18
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JTA – A married couple from New York were killed when their small plane crashed near Boston.
Dr. Michael Graver, 65, and Jodi Cohen, 52, of Long Island, were killed Saturday morning when …
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9/20/18
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JTA – For North American Jews, the Jewish year 5778 began with tensions between Israel and the Diaspora over egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall and ended with more tension over a …
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Ben Harris
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9/7/18
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JTA – Holocaust experts want to meet with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the social network’s unwillingness to automatically remove anti-Semitic and Holocaust denial material.
The …
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8/9/18
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NEW YORK (JTA) – If you scroll down the Twitter feed of Jacob Wohl, former teenage hedge fund manager and current pro-Donald Trump provocateur, you’ll see a stream of insults directed …
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BEN SALES
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8/9/18
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JTA – Like many heavily Orthodox sections of Brooklyn, Borough Park has been served for decades by an all-male volunteer ambulance corps called Hatzalah.
The corps caters to a religious Jewish …
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CURT SCHLEIER
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7/11/18
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