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In Uman, annual Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage is clouded by arrests of yeshiva students in Israel

Many of the pilgrims to the Ukrainian city that is home to the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav said they knew others who had not been able to come.

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

Rep. Mike Lawler, a New York Republican speaks during a press conference outside of Columbia University on April 22, 2024 in New York City. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

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Freed hostage Edan Alexander says he’s returning to the IDF next month

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The ‘2-state solution’ is making its last stand at the UN. It’s time for a new approach.

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Take it from this rabbi: You should binge-watch Netflix’s ‘Long Story Short’ for the High Holidays

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Alex Edelman and fans of ‘Long Story Short’ may disagree, but a new book says Jewish humor is dying

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‘Jews are banned from entering here!’ sign in German shop window spurs international backlash

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Argentine tennis star Diego Schwartzman now plays soccer for a Jewish club in Buenos Aires

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Jewish Texas man charged with making terroristic threat against NYC’s Zohran Mamdani

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A son of Sephardic Brooklyn is behind this Mizrahi minyan where women and LGBTQ Jews take center stage

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

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

Riz Ahmed and Florence Pugh, wearing a watermelon sweatshirt, onstage at a pro-Palestinian fundraiser concert

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Billie Eilish, Benedict Cumberbatch join UK concert that raised $2M for Palestinian charities

Mahmoud Khalil leads a pro-Palestinian street protest

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University leaders among 100+ signatories to Jewish letter decrying Trump’s campus antisemitism wars

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Yair Golan: On this Rosh Hashanah, Israel’s reckless government needs to hear the voices of Diaspora Jews

A pro-Israel protester outside Columbia University in Manhattan, April 22, 2024. (Luke Tress)

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‘Internal communal division’ over Israel has many Jewish professionals feeling hopeless, survey finds

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In Uman, annual Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage is clouded by arrests of yeshiva students in Israel

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

NEW YORK CITY MAYORAL RACE

How the NYC mayoral candidates are marking Rosh Hashanah

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

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Freed hostage Edan Alexander says he’s returning to the IDF next month

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

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The ‘2-state solution’ is making its last stand at the UN. It’s time for a new approach.

Take it from this rabbi: You should binge-watch Netflix’s ‘Long Story Short’ for the High Holidays

Alex Edelman and fans of ‘Long Story Short’ may disagree, but a new book says Jewish humor is dying

‘Jews are banned from entering here!’ sign in German shop window spurs international backlash

Argentine tennis star Diego Schwartzman now plays soccer for a Jewish club in Buenos Aires

Jewish Texas man charged with making terroristic threat against NYC’s Zohran Mamdani

New York Jewish Week

A son of Sephardic Brooklyn is behind this Mizrahi minyan where women and LGBTQ Jews take center stage

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

Billie Eilish, Benedict Cumberbatch join UK concert that raised $2M for Palestinian charities

University leaders among 100+ signatories to Jewish letter decrying Trump’s campus antisemitism wars

Yair Golan: On this Rosh Hashanah, Israel’s reckless government needs to hear the voices of Diaspora Jews

‘Internal communal division’ over Israel has many Jewish professionals feeling hopeless, survey finds

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