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Israelis will not be permitted to leave their houses on Wednesday evening, the night of the first Passover seder.

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Adam Sandler pays tribute to doctors and nurses in brand-new ‘Quarantine Song’

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Larry David says Bernie Sanders, his distant cousin and lookalike, should end his presidential campaign

Frida Wattenberg speaking with her brother, Charles Smiétanski, at the Memorial for the Shoah in Paris, France on Jan. 29, 2019. (Courtesy of the Memorial for the Shoah)

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Frida Wattenberg, 95, smuggled Jewish orphans out of Nazi-occupied France

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Keir Starmer, who has vowed to fight anti-Semitism, replaces Jeremy Corbyn as leader of Britain’s Labour Party

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In new Passover children’s books, meet a googly eyed gator and spend a seder in outer space

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Aron Halpern, 92, survived the Holocaust and thrived in the United States

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