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House Democratic leader Katherine Clark becomes highest-ranking lawmaker to call war in Gaza a ‘genocide’

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Sparring over crime, but not over Jessica Tisch

Kathy Hochul reportedly considering endorsing Mamdani as his popular support grows

Dan Goldman says he won’t endorse Mamdani without ‘concrete steps’ to assuage Jewish NYers’ fears

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ESPN host Udonis Haslem called last year’s top draft pick ‘Rosh Hashanah’ on air

Oct. 7 documentary is reinstated at Toronto film festival after cancelation brouhaha

Jewish baseball fans have created an exhaustive list of Jewish players. They missed Monte Pfeiffer.

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Hundreds of thousands of Israelis join largest recent rallies on behalf of Gaza hostages

Hostage families call for general strike in Israel to protest expansion of war in Gaza

As Iran faces drought, Netanyahu offers a deal: Overthrow the mullahs, and Israel will help

Argentinian President Javier Milei will use ‘Jewish Nobel’ to launch ‘Isaac Accords’

North Carolina Democrat spurns AIPAC, in latest sign of party’s growing distance from Israel

E.J. Antoni, Trump’s new favorite economist, thinks a Nazi warship is ‘hard not to love’

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