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Joe Biden poured him a drink and he gave Jared Kushner an aliyah. Rabbi Levi Shemtov is optimistic about DC’s transition.

Rabbi Levi Shemtov weathered the Obama-Trump transition, and he’s ready for the Trump-Biden transition, even if no one else is.

The real story behind ‘Mank,’ the new movie about the Jewish screenwriter who brought us ‘Citizen Kane’

The story of Herman Mankiewicz’s career and the tumultuous making of “Citizen Kane” has a Jewish side.

The Amsterdam building that used to house the Reform Seminary and children's detainment facility where Betty Goudsmit-Oudkerk helped saved hundreds of Jewish children. (Luuk Kramer/Courtesy of the Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam)

Historical novel on Holland’s largest Holocaust rescue operation slammed for ‘awful’ errors

Among other mistakes, the new book by a soap opera star turned author describes a Nazi-controlled Jewish council as existing to make Jews “strong together.”

United States

High-school student leads effort to preserve Vermont’s oldest Jewish cemetery

New York

Orthodox Groups Lead Conservative Court Battles Over Religion

New York

MEAT Taps Luxury Kosher Market Despite Hard Times

Culture

‘Jeopardy!’ just had a Yiddish category with words like ‘schlep’ and ‘nosh’

Culture

A short film offers new perspective on Birthright — through the eyes of Russian Jews

Cantors and musicians perform at the annual Hanukkah event of the Royal Concert Hall in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Dec. 22, 2019. (Eduardus Lee)

Culture

How Hanukkah returned to Amsterdam’s Royal Concert Hall decades after the Holocaust

Global

EU invites all member states to adopt definition of anti-Semitism that includes Israel hatred

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