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Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan’s 5 most Jewish moments

Before the Bard became a regular at Chabad holiday services, he held a seder with Marlon Brando and had his son's bar mitzvah at the Western Wall.

The Jewish Schoolteacher Behind the First Black ‘Peanuts’ Character

In April 1968, a Jewish schoolteacher named Harriet Glickman sat down at her kitchen table and typed out a letter to the man behind America’s favorite cartoons: the Peanuts inventor, Charles Schulz. She told him how deeply the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had shaken her and that he had an utterly […]

39 US lawmakers urge UNESCO to oppose resolution denying Jewish heritage in Jerusalem

Israel's Foreign Ministry has asked the Holy See, which holds nonvoting observer status at UNESCO, to assist in defeating the resolution, arguing that the resolution also harms Christians.