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Douglas Emhoff, Kamala Harris’ husband, is the Democrats’ newest Jewish star

The vice presidential nominee’s partner opened up in a Biden campaign webinar about growing up Jewish and his Jewish involvement.

Yiddish psychedelic rock band Forshpil brings electric guitar to the shtetl

“I love accordions, but this is not what this band is,” singer Sasha Lurje says.

The anti-Semitic site behind the ‘Jews want a race war’ highway banner was removed from the internet. But another quickly took its place.

The Goyim TV saga reflects the challenge of controlling hate-spewing websites, and the whack-a-mole-like effort it can take by anti-hate groups to confront them.

New York

Parshat Ki Tetze – Relationship Building as a Mitzvah

Analysis

‘Israel’ and ‘elites’: The Republican convention sends mixed messages to Jews

Someone sprays graffiti reading 'Free Palestine' on the driveway of Beth Hillel Temple in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Wednesday, Aug. 26. (Screenshot from YouTube)

United States

Kenosha’s rabbi on graffiti at her synagogue: ‘What’s happened these last few days is not about us’

The Tell

At the Republican convention, some unconventional messaging for American Jews

Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky meeting with rabbis in Kyiv on May 6, 2019. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Kharkov)

Global

Ukraine’s Jewish president thinks Jews especially should invest in his country

New York

When Torah Asks Us to Take a Leap of Faith

United States

‘It’s not the same and everybody knows it’: Jewish campus life goes virtual

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