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Several turtles have swastikas painted on their shells and authorities can’t catch them
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Trailblazing Canadian cyclist removed from Ottawa International Women’s Day event over past IDF service
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Popular neo-Nazi blogger resigns over revelation his wife is Jewish
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We've updated our story about the Fort Worth synagogue hostage crisis here The latest: Talks are reportedly underway with the attacker. And he reportedly demanded the release of a woman convicted of terrorism who made antisemitic outbursts at her trial
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BREAKING: The Pittsburgh synagogue shooter, who committed the worst antisemitic attack in U.S. history, is guilty of all 63 charges he faced.
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Jewish teenager Ezra Beinart is leading an initiative to expose young American Jews to prominent Palestinian voices like Rep. Rashida Tlaib.
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The family of Sarah Halimi, a French Jew killed by her neighbor as he spewed slurs, has lost their final appeal to have the killer tried. Courts upheld that the killer was not criminally responsible for his actions because he was too high on marijuana.
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A Syrian Muslim donated a tree in Israel for an Italian boy whose bar mitzvah party was canceled due to coronavirus
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Six things to know about @DrJillStein , the last Jewish presidential candidate standing
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Every day for seven months, Alex Goldstein ( @alexjgoldstein ) has scoured the Internet for photographs, obituaries and snapshots of lives lost to share. Here's how he faces grief — and manages to find hope.
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Jewish attorney general @AGSchneiderman is leading the Trump resistance
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Next year's Florida election could pit a gregarious Miami-raised Jewish liberal against a prickly Roman Catholic culture warrior from Florida’s conservative north. @NikkiFried says she is ready for the fight.
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib said she struggles with the idea of uprooting Israeli settlements in the West Bank, comparing it to the displacement of Palestinians in 1948.
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Six things to know about @DrJillStein , the last Jewish presidential candidate standing
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Lena Epstein, the Republican Jewish candidate who defended inviting a Messianic rabbi to honor Pittsburgh victims, lost her election #ElectionNight
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In a country where guns killed nearly 40,000 people in 2017, Jewish father and gun reform activist @fred_guttenberg believes this year is crucial for passing real gun safety legislation.
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Teachers of students who made Nazi salute in prom photo raise money for Auschwitz museum
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Construction workers in Lodz, Poland, unearthed a trove of hundreds of Jewish artifacts believed to have been hidden before the Nazi occupation of the city.
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Join the official online commemorative service one year after the #TreeOfLife attack #PauseWithPittsburgh , from our partners @jfederations :
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In his exclusive op-ed for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, @PeteButtigieg outlines his strategies for combatting anti-Semitism.
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Leonard Cohen’s 1973 trip to the Sinai Desert to perform for Israeli soldiers during the Yom Kippur War is being turned into a dramatized TV series.
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Opinion | Roberta Kaplan, Karen Dunn and Amy Spitalnick are lawyers bringing a lawsuit against the hate groups responsible for the Charlottesville riots. After the Capitol mob, "the only path forward is one of accountability and justice," they wrote.
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A student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was arrested after punching a Jewish student and spitting on an Israeli flag during a vigil for hostages.
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Geert Wilders calls for kicking out ICC prosecutor over Israel ‘bias’
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She married a Jewish guy, is more AIPAC than J Street and spent time as a kid carrying around a Jewish national fund blue box.
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McGill University student leader urges Twitter users to ‘punch a Zionist today’
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A Jewish cemetery in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where Trump is holding his last campaign rally tonight, was defaced with "MAGA" graffiti. More from @BenjaminSales here:
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Woman, 70, gets naked and takes shower during the Zoom bat mitzvah of Gilbert Gottfried’s daughter
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17 years ago today, Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl was murdered in Pakistan. These were among his last words:
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Israel denies US request to extradite teen arrested for JCC bomb threats
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A Chabad rabbi in Kherson has been accused of collaborating with Russia after allowing Russian soldiers to pray at his synagogue.
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Anthony @Scaramucci to join Jewish group’s investment trip to Israel
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Meet the Puerto Rican Jew, @Jewyorican , behind the @ElBloombito parody Twitter account
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Far-right activist Laura Loomer banned from Uber, Lyft for anti-Muslim tweets
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The @ADL applauded Tucker Carlson's ouster from Fox News, where he is facing a lawsuit from a Jewish former producer alleging antisemitism.
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Jewish leaders from across Missouri traveled to Jefferson City to testify and lobby against various bills that would restrict the rights of trans people.
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Tax returns reveal that WhatsApp founder Jan Koum, whose fortune is estimated between $9.8 billion and $13.7 billion, has quietly become one of the largest donors to Jewish causes in the world. THREAD:
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Orthodox Jewish woman to head National Security Agency’s new cybersecurity section
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A single pro-Palestinian protester took the stage briefly at the official ceremony to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Poland.
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Rowling’s depiction of a far-left anti-Semite comes at a time of record high anti-Semitism in Britain, where she lives.
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Poland’s Jewish community stands behind president’s decision to skip Holocaust memorial event
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Teenager Jack Hughes is first Jewish player to be No. 1 overall pick in National Hockey League draft
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Rosh Hashanah 1939 greeting from Mahatma Gandhi discovered at National Library of Israel
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Donald Trump praises Israel’s racial profiling, calls for same in US
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Police have confirmed that 1 hostage has been released unharmed from Congregation Beth Israel. But other hostages, including the rabbi, reportedly remain. Our latest updates on the Texas synagogue hostage crisis here:
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"If you are a Jew in America and you are not feeling unsettled, then you are not paying attention," @CenSynNYC Rabbi Angela Buchdahl said in her first sermon since last week's hostage crisis at a synagogue in Texas.
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Seven Palestinians were killed in the clashes, including a senior Hamas commander.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg poster in Brooklyn vandalized with the words ‘Die, Jew bitch’ and a swastika
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Born Stanley Martin Lieber in 1922, he was the son of a Romanian Jewish immigrant father and what he once called a “nice, rather old-fashioned Jewish lady.”
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Josh Shapiro, who will be sworn in today as Pennsylvania’s governor, has has long woven his Jewish identity into his politics.
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Moldova’s Jews feel an anti-Semitic backlash after a corrupt Jewish politician flees to Israel
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Jewish, progressive groups bring Congress 1M signatures opposing Trump’s Bannon appointment @jstreetdotorg @jvplive
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The Jewish author of best-selling children’s book series “A Series of Unfortunate Events” will write a horror film based on the legend of the Golem of Prague.
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Congratulations to Jewish snowboarder Arielle Gold of #TeamUSA for winning a Bronze medal in the women's half pipe! This is the 21-year-old's first Olympic medal. #Olympics2018
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. @JennaJameson fires back at David Duke claim that Jews dominate porn
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"I believe that Muslims should be particularly thoughtful when speaking about these issues because anti-Semitism has spread through the Islamic world like a cancer,” said Zakaria.
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Jared Polis will be the first Jewish governor of Colorado as well as the state’s first openly gay person elected to the post.
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The Sackler family, the Jewish billionaires behind OxyContin, will receive full immunity from all civil legal claims in exchange for spending up to $6 billion on addiction treatment and prevention programs.
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In memoriam segment honors Anton Yelchin #Emmys
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The Jewish mayoral candidate in Louisville said the release of the alleged gunman who targeted him has left him and his family “traumatized again.”
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Jewish Museum in London evacuated by bomb threat
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Here are just a few of the inspiring Jews we lost this year:
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The Texas school board that banned a graphic novel adaption of Anne Frank's diary invited a Messianic "rabbi" charged with sexual assault to offer a prayer at its meeting.
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In the country’s most Jewish district, it's a showdown between Lois Frankel, a paragon of the Jewish community’s liberal majority, and right-wing provocateur Laura Loomer.
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