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Top-ranked Israeli tennis player Dudi Sela leaves match early for Yom Kippur

And in college football, a Big Ten long snapper plans to fast while playing on Saturday.

This Yom Kippur, a synagogue will read the book of Jonah under a whale skeleton

The reading will take place on the resort island of Nantucket, a former whaling hub immortalized by "Moby-Dick."

Josh Gad honors his Holocaust survivor grandparents with role in ‘Marshall’

In the biopic, the "Frozen" star plays a Jewish lawyer who helps a young Thurgood Marshall defend a black man accused of raping a wealthy white woman in 1940.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, of ‘Seinfeld’ fame, reveals she has cancer

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Bernie Sanders chokes up when he learns about relative who died defying the Nazis

Spending Yom Kippur in a beer garden

Amid NFL national anthem furor, ADL forms sports council to push social change

Mark Feuerstein dishes on his very Jewy new sitcom, ‘9JKL’

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Ye gods! An Australian lamb commercial has some real, and fake, foes

This Holocaust Survivor’s Two-Step About Auschwitz Went Viral

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