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Netherlands wins Eurovision song contest and Israel finishes 23rd of 26 countries

The Netherlands Duncan Laurence received the Eurovision 2019 trophy at about 2 a.m. on Sunday in Tel Aviv from last year’s Eurovision winner Netta Barzilai.

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One of Telemundo’s most famous soccer announcers is a proud Peruvian Jew

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Nobuki Sugihara, second from left with Limmud FSU founder Chaim Chesler and villagers from Mir, Belarus on May 2, 2019. (Boris Brumin)

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The son of Holocaust hero Chiune Sugihara is setting the record straight about his father’s story

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 16, 2019 5:40 pm

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Eric Fingerhut leaves top post at Hillel to head Jewish Federations of North America

By Ed Carroll May 16, 2019 3:25 pm

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Why hasn’t Mel Gibson been cast out in Hollywood?

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Sorry, Rashida Tlaib: Israel was not a consolation prize for Jews after the Holocaust

Culture

A site to order Kaddish for your loved ones takes a page from Nathan Englander’s latest book

By Josefin Dolsten May 16, 2019 2:31 pm

These young American women are moving to Israel to serve their new country

By Larry Luxner May 15, 2019 12:12 pm

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Fire at Chabad center in suburban Boston investigated as possible hate crime

By Penny Schwartz May 16, 2019 11:16 am

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Netherlands wins Eurovision song contest and Israel finishes 23rd of 26 countries

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Democrats say the GOP refuses to acknowledge anti-Semitism on the far right

Is Iran the new Iraq? Here are the similarities — and big differences

2 Democratic senators mock Trump’s Iran deal strategy on Twitter

The son of Holocaust hero Chiune Sugihara is setting the record straight about his father’s story

Eric Fingerhut leaves top post at Hillel to head Jewish Federations of North America

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One thing Crown Heights can do to really tackle anti-Semitism

Why hasn’t Mel Gibson been cast out in Hollywood?

Sorry, Rashida Tlaib: Israel was not a consolation prize for Jews after the Holocaust

A site to order Kaddish for your loved ones takes a page from Nathan Englander’s latest book

Fire at Chabad center in suburban Boston investigated as possible hate crime

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