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The shocking, American and Jewish moment Gene Scheer heard President Biden recite his ‘American Anthem’

A president finds meaning in a song born out of a Jewish librettist’s intensely personal experience.

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Jonathan Sacks’ final book, dozens of others win 2020 National Jewish Book Awards

Dozens of books published in 2020 won or were finalists for the Jewish Book Council’s annual awards.

On TikTok, Tobin Mitnick is famous as ‘a Jew who loves trees’

With his arboreal humor and rapid-fire delivery, Tobin Mitnick has become one of the viral video platform’s most famous Jews.

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Yiddish Lives — and Jeffrey Shandler Writes Its Biography

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At 87, activist rabbi Arthur Waskow is still protesting — and still getting arrested

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A major American Jewish coalition adopted the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism. What that means may vary for its members.

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In this exclusive ‘Finding Your Roots’ clip, journalist Nina Totenberg learns of a family member’s daring Holocaust escape

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An Israeli leader consoled Nancy Pelosi in 2016 with a poem. It sustained her throughout the Trump presidency.

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, speaks about combating racism at the Reform Biennial in Chicago on December 12, 2019. (Courtesy of the Union for Reform Judaism)

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Reform movement: IHRA definition of anti-Semitism is helpful but should not be codified into law

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Shortly after I began converting to Judaism, I found myself in a hot tub full of neo-Nazis

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