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4 Jews are running for Senate in 2020 — including 2 who could help turn it blue. Here’s what you need to know about them.

They include a doctor who has killed a bear, a scientist who makes a mean matzoh ball soup and a son of a former vice presidential candidate.

Foodies Rally After a Brooklyn Kosher Cafe Gets a Covid-19 Summons

The owner of Mixed Greens posted a viral video questioning an inspector’s decision.

The global proportion of Jews living in Europe is as low as it was 1,000 years ago. And the future there doesn’t look bright.

Rising rates of intermarriage, a low reproductive rate and high levels of anti-Semitism are chipping away at the continent’s Jewish population, a landmark demographic study has found.

A view of Northwestern University's campus in 2010. (Wikimedia Commons)

United States

Northwestern University president spars over anti-Semitism with activist group and professors

New York

Redemption Begins Where Inequity Ends

Lifestyle

Some queer Jews are finding meaning in the laws of family purity, traditionally observed by married Orthodox couples

New York

De Blasio Regrets How He Handled Chasidic Funeral in April

New York

Once Upon a Time, There Was a Thriving Yiddish Children’s Literature

Culture

As Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen mocks coronavirus anti-Semitism conspiracy theories on Jimmy Kimmel

Global

Armenian leader accuses Israel of aiding ‘genocide’ against his people

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