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Ideas

A Hulu horror movie is influenced by the post-Holocaust pressure to have children

“Clock” tackles the weighty topic of how the Jewish community can pressure women to bear children as a means of avenging the Holocaust.

Pride symbols at a Jewish youth conference

BBYO’s Orlando convention plans pose a Florida conundrum for LGBTQ Jews and their allies

The Jewish youth group is planning a mammoth centennial celebration in Orlando, amid the state’s new restrictions on queer youth.

The Reform movement is ending its standalone semester-in-Israel program amid declining enrollment

The move onto the Muss campus is the latest in the Reform movement’s reduction in physical space to cut costs and respond to shrinking enrollment numbers.

Politics

65 senators urge Israel’s entry into the Visa Waiver Program by end of September

New York

Viral TikTok series ‘Keep the Meter Running’ makes a very Jewish visit to the 2nd Avenue Deli

Culture

‘Jeopardy!’ featured a suburban Detroit synagogue once called ‘a concrete Sinai on the shoulder of Interstate 696’

United States

Missouri school board votes not to ban ‘Maus’ from district bookshelves following criticism

Global

Zelensky responds to Putin by calling him ‘second king of antisemitism after Hitler’

Politics

Following backlash, Combat Antisemitism confirms that video on ‘woke antisemitism’ will not be reposted

United States

National Portrait Gallery to display portrait of Sally Priesand, first ordained woman rabbi in American history

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