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Lauren Boebert asked Jews visiting US Capitol if they were doing ‘reconnaissance’

The outspoken lawmaker claimed she was making a joke, but the group was left “confused,” one rabbi told Buzzfeed News.

Rep. Lauren Boebert

Colleyville rabbi who escaped synagogue hostage situation: ‘It’s safe to go to shul’

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Police at the scene of the crime in Helsingborg. (Screenshot from Aftonbladet)

Global

27% of religious hate crimes in Sweden target its tiny Jewish community

Global

A Jew betrayed Anne Frank’s family, cold-case investigators conclude

FBI photos of Aafia Siddiqui

Global

Who is Aafia Siddiqui, the prisoner whom the Colleyville synagogue hostage-taker reportedly wanted to free?

Architect's rendering of a housing project

United States

The first urban Jewish co-housing project in the US takes shape in Berkeley

By Sue Fishkoff January 19, 2022 12:14 pm

New York

Texas synagogue hostage-taker claimed to have planted bombs in New York City

By Andrew Silow-Carroll January 19, 2022 9:49 am

CULTURE

Jon Stewart

Culture

Jon Stewart to receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

Jared Leto

Culture

Jared Leto’s attempt at an Israeli accent is revealed in teaser for Apple TV’s series on WeWork founder Adam Neumann

Animated soldier looks away from army

Culture

Netflix’s ‘Camp Confidential’ tells the story of Nazis housed in an American compound — and the Jews who looked after them

Inge Auerbacher

New York

This New York-based survivor will address Germany’s parliament on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

By Stewart Ain January 19, 2022 7:00 am

sheikh jarrah home destroyed

Israel

Israeli police evict Palestinian family from Sheikh Jarrah, neighborhood that sparked May 2021 conflict with Hamas

By Shira Hanau January 19, 2022 4:41 am

Albert bourla

Global

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla awarded Genesis Prize for work developing coronavirus vaccine

By Shira Hanau January 19, 2022 2:22 am

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Nikki Fried

Politics

Florida governor candidate Nikki Fried says Ron DeSantis reminds her of ‘the rise of Hitler’

By Gabe Friedman January 18, 2022 10:29 pm

Alejandro Mayorkas

United States

Mayorkas, Garland and other US officials meet with Jewish groups to discuss synagogue security post-Colleyville

By Andrew Lapin January 18, 2022 6:29 pm

Benjamin Netanyahu in mask

Israel

Netanyahu is considering a plea deal in his corruption cases that could bar him from politics for years, reports claim

By Gabe Friedman January 18, 2022 5:49 pm

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