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Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s former Middle East negotiator, made his first public speech since leaving the White House on Sunday night.
Greenblatt, 52, who worked as a lawyer …
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By Josefin Dolsten, JTA
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1/15/20
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The march over the Brooklyn Bridge and the ensuing rally against anti-Semitism on Jan. 5, attended by an estimated 25,000 people, was a necessary, if belated, response to a surge of attacks …
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By Jonathan S. Tiobin
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1/15/20
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Though Naisha Couamin walks through a heavily Jewish neighborhood near her home in the East Flatbush most days, she had never actually talked to a Jewish person until recently.
The 17-year-old had …
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By Josefin Dolsten, JTA
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1/15/20
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I didn’t start learning the Talmud to take a stand or voice an opinion. When I started learning a page of Talmud per day (Daf Yomi) at age 10, I didn’t realize that …
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By Hila Schlakman
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1/15/20
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One week after a much larger march over the Brooklyn Bridge drew 25,000 people to Manhattan and Brooklyn, more than 2,000 Long Islanders walked through Mineola en route to a rally in support of the …
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Reporting by Jeff Bessen
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1/15/20
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Warren Isakow is an intensive care physician who regularly works a 12-hour night shift, treating ICU patients for heart attacks, strokes and other medical emergencies.
What makes his job unusual …
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By Larry Luxner for Nefesh B’Nefesh
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1/9/20
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The recent and rapid escalation of anti-Semitic attacks in the New York area is horrifying, almost reaching epidemic levels. Since most of the perpetrators do not fit the profile of white …
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By Tehilla Goldberg
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1/9/20
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said remarks made last week by Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi, are “outrageous.” Rabbi Yosef said immigrants from the former …
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By JTA
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1/9/20
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I have never been to a football game. But last Wednesday, I entered MetLife Stadium, home of the NFL’s New York Jets and Giants, with over 350 teenagers. …
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By Rabbi David Bashevkin
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1/9/20
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few years ago, when Palestinian Arab leaders were threatening to enlist the International Criminal Court (ICC) in their war against Israel, J Street expressed “understanding” …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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1/9/20
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