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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is responsible for shooting at German synagogue, officials say

German intelligence officials revealed in December that they believed the Essen shooting and two other synagogue attacks at the same time had ties to Iran.

Teens pose with the Israeli and Dominican flags

Israeli and Dominican teams host a ceremony to promote friendship at the World Baseball Classic

The event included local teens from a Jewish day school, who had the chance to meet Israeli coaches and players.

New York Nosh

This Upper West Side appetizing shop stands apart by standing still

Little has changed at Murray’s Sturgeon Shop since it opened in 1946, and that’s a good thing.

Politics

Conservative political activism has grown increasingly crusading. These Jews feel right at home.

A man and girl in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn stand opposite a police van on Dec. 31, 2019. Brooklyn was the location of more than one third of the total anti-Semitic assaults committed last year, according to the Anti-Defamation League. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

United States

Anti-Jewish incidents jumped nearly 20% in 2021, FBI finds

Sports

Team Israel loses 10-0 to Puerto Rico in World Baseball Classic’s first-ever ‘perfect’ game

New York

As ‘Parade’ opens on Broadway, star Ben Platt takes a trip to Leo Frank’s Brooklyn

United States

Holocaust novel by Jodi Picoult removed as Florida school district purges libraries to comply with state law

Politics

Regulators shutter bank co-founded by Jewish donor Scott Shay

Culture

David Strathairn plays historic Holocaust witness Jan Karski in PBS’s ‘Remember This’

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