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A Florida bill attacking ‘critical theory’ in higher education has the state’s Jewish academics worried

Florida H.B. 999, which would ban “critical theory” concepts from higher learning, could have dire consequences for Jewish life and disciplines on campus.

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Inside the auction house driving the rare-book craze in the Orthodox world

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CULTURE

Israel

For Orthodox Israeli teens, battling climate change can be a lonely fight

Avi Miller

Sports

Israel struck out at the World Baseball Classic, but the team’s Twitter account was a hit

New York

These Holocaust survivors were once classmates in a DP camp. They just reunited after 76 years.

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Israel

Alarmed by their country’s political direction, more Israelis are seeking to move abroad

By Deborah Danan March 20, 2023 6:22 pm

Politics

Trump’s calls for protests condemn George Soros, echo Jan. 6 — and draw Jewish concern

By Ron Kampeas March 20, 2023 6:19 pm

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Joseph Borgen was beaten in the streets while wearing a kippah. Now, he’s fighting in the NYC court system.

Joey Borgen

For Jewish fans, Duke’s new basketball coach inspires a different version of March Madness

For the first time, Democrats sympathize more with the Palestinians than with Israel, poll finds

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Disgraced New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announces new pro-Israel group

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Global

Israel says ‘crisis’ with Poland is over as the countries agree to resume student trips to Holocaust sites

Global

In Berlin, Netanyahu faces tough questions from a key ally, while Israelis abroad protest

Global

Students at elite Istanbul school perform Nazi salute in soccer game against Turkey’s only Jewish school

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Asaf Zamir speaks at a gala hosted by the Algemeiner newspaper in New York City on November 29, 2022. (Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

New York

Asaf Zamir, Israel’s top diplomat in NY, summoned to Jerusalem after implicitly criticizing judicial overhaul

By Ben Sales March 20, 2023 1:41 am

Israeli forces deploy in the area around Huwara following a previous shooting attack there. (Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Israel

Former US marine seriously injured in West Bank shooting attack in Huwara

By Ben Sales March 19, 2023 7:11 pm

United States

A Florida bill banning ‘ethnic intimidation’ flyers aims to stop the state’s neo-Nazi rise

By Andrew Lapin March 17, 2023 6:18 pm

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An employee of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, right, hands out an aid package to a Jewish woman in Kharkiv, Ukraine during the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. (Courtesy of JDC)

Israel

Far-right Israeli minister finds enemy in JDC, the mainstream American Jewish aid group

By Philissa Cramer March 17, 2023 4:43 pm

New York

YouTuber Drew Binsky makes a travel video about Hasidic Brooklyn

By Julia Gergely March 17, 2023 3:20 pm

Religion

Queer yeshiva to publish first-ever collection of Jewish legal opinions written by and for trans Jews

By Jackie Hajdenberg March 17, 2023 2:41 pm

From the Archives

1964

Archive

‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Acclaimed As One of Broadway’s Best Plays

1959

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500,000 Crowd Tel Aviv Streets in Purim Carnival; 10,000 in Beersheba

2000

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New History Center Touted As Jewish ‘Library of Congress’

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