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Stickers and posters described as anti-Semitic found at suburban NY Holocaust memorial

October 10, 2019David Rutman

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Gunmen kill two in attack on German synagogue, kebab shop

October 9, 2019David Rutman

(JTA) — At least two gunmen opened fire on a synagogue during Yom Kippur services and a kebab shop in Halle, a town in eastern Germany. The shooters reportedly were from the far right. The masked gunmen reportedly were repelled by the synagogue’s doors, secured shut during the services Wednesday on the most solemn day […]

Who by fire: 38,000 pounds of bagels burnt in truck days before Yom Kippur

October 8, 2019October 10, 2019Sara Wood

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How Pittsburgh changed the way American Jews think about security

October 8, 2019October 10, 2019Sara Wood

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Here’s the sad paradox of the shooting nearly one year ago at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue: The killing of 11 worshippers, the worst attack on Jews in U.S. history, hit a community that was one of the best prepared to handle such an assault. In the year or so prior to […]

What Bari Weiss misunderstands about America and the Jews

October 8, 2019October 10, 2019Sara Wood

TORONTO (JTA) — There’s a reason our moment demands a book called “How To Fight Anti-Semitism,” and it’s not just anti-Semitism’s violent global resurgence. American Jews — at least the liberal, pro-Israel majority — are at risk of becoming, as New York Times columnist Bari Weiss puts it, “politically homeless.” Right-wing anti-Semitism is, Weiss grants, […]

Sen. Lindsey Graham calls troop withdrawal from northern Syria a ‘nightmare for Israel’

October 8, 2019David Rutman

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Tens of thousands of Jewish worshippers pray at Western Wall on eve of Yom Kippur

October 8, 2019October 10, 2019Mark Hershlag

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Some 68,000 secular and religious Israelis to pray together on Yom Kippur

October 8, 2019October 10, 2019Mark Hershlag

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America’s 7.5 million Jews are older, whiter and more liberal than the country as a whole

October 7, 2019David Rutman

NEW YORK (JTA) — In the past seven years, the American Jewish population has grown 10 percent. It remains a population that is mostly liberal, college educated and overwhelmingly white. And it’s not getting any younger. This is all according to a new American Jewish population estimate of the 48 contiguous U.S. states put out […]

Mayim Bialik: Everything I’ll never know because my father died

October 7, 2019October 10, 2019Mark Hershlag

This story originally appeared on Kveller. Abba, are you there? You died 4 1/2 years ago, but I still forget sometimes. I was driving in sixth gear the other day. I went to exit the freeway and, on the off-ramp, I downshifted enough that I was able to shift directly into fourth. You taught me […]