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Lawmakers launch bipartisan push to ease visa requirements for Israeli travelers

Israel has for years sought entry to the program, which allows 90-day stays and does not require prearranged visas.

As Republicans delay Deborah Lipstadt’s nomination, Biden names Aaron Keyak to be deputy antisemitism monitor

The State Department is giving unusual exposure to the announcement.

Justus Rosenberg, professor and last surviving member of group that smuggled intellectuals out of Nazi-held Europe, has died at 100

It wasn’t until he was in his mid-70s that he began to speak about his experiences working as a courier for Varian Fry’s rescue efforts during the Holocaust.

Israel ignored US warnings that attacks on Iran’s nuclear program were counterproductive, NY Times reports

Jewish community in Helena, Montana seeks to buy back synagogue building sold for $1 in the 1930s

Pro-Israel pastor apologizes for hosting event where Michael Flynn called for US to have ‘one religion’

Members of USY, a Jewish youth movement, visit Millennium Park in Chicago

National survey on youth and religion raises concern about Gen-Z Jews — and questions about how to understand them

Backlash mounts against Orthodox children’s book author accused of abusing minors, surprising many

At the Charlottesville trial, defendants got the judge to say ‘gas the kikes.’ Here’s how, and why it matters.

In a big year for his family, Doug Emhoff picks putting mezuzah on VP house as a top memory

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