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Andrew Yang films campaign ad in Orthodox Brooklyn toy store, continuing his Jewish outreach

Few candidates have gone as far as Yang has in seeking the Orthodox vote.

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Meyers Leonard

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Teshuvah for Meyers Leonard: Miami’s Jewish community embraces NBA player after he apologizes for anti-Semitic slur

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GOP lawmaker marks Holocaust remembrance day by likening child mental health bill to Nazi laws

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A year into the pandemic, Conservative Jews consider whether to make Zoom prayer permanent

Hans Achterhuis in Amsterdam on August 27, 2017. (Wikimedia Commmons)

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Dutch national laureate philosopher calls Diaspora a ‘blessing’ because it prevented Jews from having power

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 9, 2021 11:28 am

Prince Philip

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Prince Philip, who opposed Nazis and was first British royal to visit Israel, dies at 99

By Cnaan Liphshiz and Ron Kampeas April 9, 2021 9:44 am

The son of JTA's Europe correspondent pictures here when he was nearing his 2nd birthday, examines a memorial cobblestone for murdered Dutch Jews in Heerlen, the Netherlands on July 29, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

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Growing up in Anne Frank’s shadow, my kids have known about the Holocaust since before they could speak

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 8, 2021 2:21 pm

OPINION

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Calling any Jewish woman a ‘JAP’ is offensive — but not for the reason you think

Barbed wire fence against a dark sky

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Writing poetry helps me process the unspeakable evils of the Holocaust

Opinion

What it’s like to celebrate Passover in prison

United States

Editor of Orthodox newspaper the Jewish Press was inside the Capitol during the Jan. 6 breach

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These names are being talked about to be the US anti-Semitism monitor

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Food

The secret not-so-Jewish history of gefilte fish

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