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Arthur Finkelstein, political strategist who made ‘liberal’ a dirty word, dies

Finkelstein helped elected Ricahrd Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Benjamin Netanyahu, Republican senators including Orrin Hatch and Ariel Sharon as Israeli prime minister.

Rabbi threatens to quit Jewish Home party over Naftali Bennett’s lesbian aide

Rabbi Yisrael Rozen, who has already resigned from the party’s presidium, reportedly has threatened to quit the party three times in recent months.

Swastikas and anti-Semitic slurs found in Michigan park

Ann Arbor police increased patrols in and around city parks in response.

Global

Volunteers from seven countries clean up historic Jewish cemetery in Poland

Global

El Al will fly again between Israel and Argentina, decades after the flight that carried Eichmann

Global

Russian Jews slam Moscow’s exclusion from Holocaust memorial project in Poland

Obituaries

Jerry Lewis, comedian and filmmaker, dies at 91

United States

Michigan man sentenced to probation for threatening to kill children and Jews

United States

Teens who twisted menorah into a swastika sentenced to meet with Holocaust survivor

United States

Palestinian teen who attempted to stab police in West Bank said on Facebook he wanted to die a ‘martyr’

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