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23 Jewish activists from Simone Zimmerman’s anti-occupation group arrested at Passover protests

Six were arrested at AIPAC’s Boston office Tuesday after chaining themselves to a symbolic Passover seder table.

Frederick Mayer, German Jew-turned US spy against the Nazis, dies at 94

Mayer posed as a German soldier for more than two months, sending intelligence on Nazi troop movements to his commanders back in the U.S.

Repair the World urges #SupportforRefugees during Passover

Repair the World’s ongoing Turn The Tables initiative offers resources to facilitate dialogue on the refugee issue within a Jewish framework to use during the Passover seder.

Congressional panel queries Education Dept. on campus anti-Semitism

Feds affirm halt in funding to Jewish college accused of fraud

Supreme Court upholds law facilitating access to Iran assets by victims of terrorist attacks

Florida official has belated bar mitzvah at Western Wall

Harvard law student leader apologizes for asking Israeli lawmaker why she’s ‘so smelly’

What we know, and don’t know, about how Jews voted in New York

Family of slain Jewish journalist Steven Sotloff sues Syria in US court

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