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After years of war, world’s oldest synagogue paintings are revealed as intact in Damascus

For the first time in decades, Jews set eyes on the 1,700-year-old Dura Europos synagogue paintings this week.

A photo of the Dura-Europos Synagogue wall paintings in the National Museum of Damascus. The frescoes depict multiple biblical stories and have a sheen from the lacquer coating.

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After years of war, world’s oldest synagogue paintings are revealed as intact in Damascus

We asked rabbis, ‘What are Jews most hungry to hear this new year?’

NEW YORK CITY MAYORAL RACE

As Mamdani vows to arrest Netanyahu, Eric Adams prepares to meet Israeli PM in New York

Mike Lawler, Josh Gottheimer slam Mamdani for vowing to drop IHRA definition of antisemitism

Elise Stefanik proposes legislation that would block Mamdani’s threat to arrest Netanyahu

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Can Zohran Mamdani divest NYC from Israel? His likely comptroller, Mark Levine, dismisses the concern.

‘I voted for you because Jews are good with money’: Mark Levine on running for comptroller

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Jerry leaves Ben & Jerry’s, progressive Jewish ice-cream giant, as company battles owner on Israel speech

European Commission seeks sweeping sanctions on Israel amid Gaza offensive

Two-thirds of a 15th-century Portuguese High Holiday prayer book were lost to history. Until now.

‘It is genocide,’ Bernie Sanders says about Gaza, becoming the first US senator to do so

A record $10M federal grant to Tikvah has some Jews celebrating and others crying foul

With ban removed, NYC rabbis are weighing endorsements in a heated mayoral race

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At YIVO, an unfinished Yiddish dictionary gets the last word — as opera

NYC’s Temple Emanu-El celebrates its 180th birthday with an exhibit on Jews of the Gilded Age

Met Opera adapts Michael Chabon’s Jewish novel ‘Kavalier & Clay’ for the stage

Drama about Palestinian boy is Israel’s Oscar entry amid Hollywood boycott of Israeli film institutions

‘I never stood with Bibi,’ Cuomo says as Netanyahu figures large in the NYC mayor’s race

UN commission concludes for the first time that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

Israel launches ground operation in Gaza City, as Marco Rubio casts doubt on diplomatic end to war

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