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(JTA) — “Jojo Rabbit” sounds like a film that is difficult to pull off amid the state of rising anti-Semitism in 2019. It’s a comedy set during the Holocaust about a 10-year-old German boy being brainwashed by Nazi ideology and his imaginary friend — a playful version of Hitler who likes to dance. But before […]

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TEL AVIV — About 2.1 million women worldwide developed breast cancer in 2018, according to the World Health Organization. Last year also saw some 627,000 fatalities due to breast cancer — nearly all because their cancer had spread to distant organs. Israeli researcher Neta Erez is trying to find out how the cancer spreads in […]

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NEW YORK (JTA) — Many obituaries of Harold Bloom, the lion of American literary criticism who passed away on Monday at 89, mention that he was born to Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Few mention his lifelong love of Yiddish, and particularly Yiddish theater, which he grew up watching in New York City (although […]

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