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Jewish tradition sees eclipses as bad omens. Many American Jews are seeking totality anyway.

Some synagogues and JCCs are hosting eclipse viewing parties, and rabbis have issued opinions on the right blessings to say (or not say).

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Guernica editor who published Israeli writer’s coexistence essay resigns, saying she disagreed with retraction

“The magazine stands by its retraction of the work; I do not,” Jina Moore wrote in a blog post a month after Joanna Chen’s essay first appeared.

6 months into Israel’s war, American rabbis are grappling with anxiety over the battle’s aims and mounting toll

“I certainly never could have imagined six months,” one rabbi said.

Culture

Alex Edelman’s ‘Just For Us’ premieres on HBO and Max, with Jewish identity and antisemitism again in the spotlight

Culture

Elliot Gould, Joaquin Phoenix, Ilana Glazer, 150+ Jewish creatives sign open letter backing Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech

Sports

The Jewish Sport Report: Did Germany accidentally allow a Nazi symbol on its national soccer jersey?

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside Columbia University, February 2, 2024. (Luke Tress)

New York

Columbia suspends students for ‘Resistance 101’ event where speakers praised Hamas

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New York

On the Lower East Side, a corporate ‘fixer’ honors his Jewish roots with a unique, NYC-centric bookstore

Religion

Inside 10 new haggadahs for 2024: America and Israel take their places at the seder table

Politics

Israeli military fires 2 officers in the wake of World Central Kitchen killings: ‘A serious failure’

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