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At George Washington University, damage to an imitation Torah triggers real mourning — and questions

It was used to initiate frat pledges, but the demise of a little imitation Torah brought hundreds out into the streets.

COVID-19 vaccines for kids are here. These rabbis (and their children) wrote prayers for the occasion.

“With this vaccination I let out the long held pause and breath I have been anxiously keeping inside for these long months,” one prayer reads.

4 cities, 2 states, 1 synagogue campus and rabbi: The Jews of the Illinois-Iowa Quad-Cities are learning to share

In this Midwest community of 500 Jews, Reform and Conservative congregations are sharing resources, a pattern that may become the new normal for small Jewish communities.

President Donald Trump speaks during a round table discussion with African American supporters in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC on June 10, 2020. (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump: Until recently Israel ‘literally owned Congress’ — and that was a good thing

At least 9 former Nazis died in the US while awaiting deportation. 3 House Democrats want to know why.

A Hannukkah pillow with a Passover message

Jewish shoppers are calling out big-box retailers’ Hanukkah mistakes. It’s working.

Fire set outside Austin, Texas synagogue follows spate of antisemitic acts

George Washington University students pass through campus

After fraternity’s replica Torah was destroyed, GWU Jewish students plan rally against antisemitism

Protesters posed as neo-Nazis to target the GOP nominee in Virginia’s governor race

Members of Congress ask TV providers to increase access to Jewish programming

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