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Mordechai and Sheindle Sova were shot in 1941 on a central street of Kyiv, Ukraine and buried in a ditch after they ignored the order to gather to be murdered at Babyn Yar. (Courtesy of Igor Kulakov and the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center.)

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Nearly 80 years after the Babyn Yar massacre, Ukrainian researchers lift victims out of anonymity

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Jewish woman who helped take down sex-trafficking ring in 1930s honored in Buenos Aires

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A Google search for ‘Jewish baby strollers’ yields anti-Semitic images. An extremist campaign may be to blame.

By Ben Sales September 25, 2020 5:28 pm

Michael Oren speaks at Bar-Ilan University in Israel in 2014. (Yoni Reif)

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Michael Oren published a book of short stories. He’s more worried about the future of literature than democracy.

By Ben Sales September 25, 2020 11:29 am

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Jewish COVID-19 second wave updates: Hasidic rabbis in Brooklyn promote mask wearing

By Shira Hanau September 25, 2020 11:26 am

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Avoiding politics is a political act, no matter what Rabbi Jonathan Sacks says

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Not feeling it in Zoom synagogue? Going outside could help.

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Hasidic Jews have rebbes. Secular Jews have RBG.

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NYC vows to crack down if COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Orthodox neighborhoods

By Shira Hanau September 24, 2020 8:02 pm

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Meet the top 15 Jewish political donors in this election cycle

By Ron Kampeas September 24, 2020 6:31 pm

Insayno sings in a video clip from 2013 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (Insayno/YouTube)

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Dutch city names as its resident poet a rapper who called the Holocaust a ‘cover-up for dumb sheep’

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 24, 2020 6:11 pm

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Jewish woman who helped take down sex-trafficking ring in 1930s honored in Buenos Aires

A Google search for ‘Jewish baby strollers’ yields anti-Semitic images. An extremist campaign may be to blame.

Michael Oren published a book of short stories. He’s more worried about the future of literature than democracy.

Jewish COVID-19 second wave updates: Hasidic rabbis in Brooklyn promote mask wearing

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Avoiding politics is a political act, no matter what Rabbi Jonathan Sacks says

Not feeling it in Zoom synagogue? Going outside could help.

Hasidic Jews have rebbes. Secular Jews have RBG.

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Meet the top 15 Jewish political donors in this election cycle

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