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Despite warnings, the far right was a no-show at Richmond pro-gun rally. So a Jewish food festival went on as planned.

This 28-year-old makes a living visiting every country in the world

POLITICS

Benny Gantz says he will annex Jordan Valley after elections

Brazil’s culture minister fired for giving a speech that used excerpts of one by the Nazi Goebbels

Donald Trump Jr. says he has met Lev Parnas and thought he was Israeli

Jewish high school student tells Donald Trump that fellow students drew swastikas on her arm

At 97, a Dutch resistance hero wants to give fellow Jewish fighters overdue recognition

Stav Shaffir, Israel’s liberal rising star, is now in free fall

OPINION

How the Women’s March made itself irrelevant

Holocaust survivors will soon be gone. Now it’s up to us to speak out against hate.

Why intersectionality fails the Jews

Where the top 7 Democratic candidates stand on Iran

‘Incitement’ director Yaron Zilberman tries to get inside the head of Yitzhak Rabin’s killer

Young people are responsible for most of New York City’s anti-Semitic attacks. Will Holocaust education help?

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Polish Jews Ordered to Surrender Their Prayer Shawls to Keep the German Army Warm

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