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An Upper West Side Jewish day school’s Thanksgiving parade went viral on TikTok

A video of Beit Rabban Day School’s “Erev Thanksgiving Day Parade” has garnered nearly 500,000 views on TikTok.

A journalist breaking Orthodoxy’s biggest sexual abuse stories says he wishes he didn’t have to

Aaron Rabinowitz, a reporter for Haaretz, said he and his collaborator Shira Elk were almost ready to move on when a floodgate of accusations opened against Chaim Walder.

From Daveed Diggs to Andy Cohen to HAIM, here’s how celebrities are celebrating Hanukkah in 2021

Mariah Carey even joined in the celebrations by teaching her kids a Hanukkah song.

Global

A Jewish expert on Spinoza was named ‘persona non grata’ in Amsterdam’s synagogue and library

Israel

Tourists will be barred from traveling to Israel for 2 weeks as the country monitors Omicron variant

Obituaries

Stephen Sondheim, Jewish theater legend who reshaped the American musical, is dead at 91

Israel

Israel bars travelers from Africa as new COVID variant puts country ‘on the verge of a state of emergency’

Fany Gerson at her donut bakery in Brooklyn

New York Nosh

Brooklyn’s Mexican-Jewish chef Fany Gerson makes doughnuts that are out of this world

Legislators outside the Massachusetts state Capitol building

United States

Following high-profile antisemitic incidents, Massachusetts lawmakers vote to require genocide education in high schools

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