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In Maryland, Larry Hogan pursues Jewish voters as GOP senses opening
Gloria Greenspun was prepared to dismiss Republican Larry Hogan as a “typical politician” when he visited her retirement complex outside Baltimore to sell his campaign for the U.S. Senate. To her surprise, Greenspun, an 86-year-old former preschool teacher who’s Jewish, found herself choking up as Hogan recounted a trip to Israel he made as governor. His tour included what he…
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Steve Solomon’s New Show “My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish and I’m Still in Therapy” Comes to the Suffolk
The Suffolk presents Steve Solomon’s “My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m STILL in Therapy” on Saturday, July 13, at 8 p.m. One of the longest running one-man shows in Broadway history, Steve Solomon’s original show “My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m In Therapy” explores myriad astounding characters we know, love and tolerate from our own families;…
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Entire communities must take a stand against antisemitism – opinion
Near the end of World War II, US Army Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds of the 422nd Infantry Regiment was the senior non-commissioned officer among a group of prisoners of war in Germany’s Stalag IXA, near Ziegenhain. One day in January 1945, Nazi forces instructed all Jewish POWs to report the following morning. Edmonds, the leader of the POWs, which…
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Tories appeal to Jewish community ahead of byelection, allege ‘betrayal’ by Trudeau
OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives are asking the Jewish community in a Toronto riding to send Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a message about his “betrayal” by voting for the Tory candidate in an upcoming byelection. Voters in Toronto—St. Paul’s will pick a new MP on June 24 to replace longtime Liberal cabinet minister Carolyn Bennett, who retired after more than…
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Adam Shatz · Israel’s Descent
When Ariel Sharon withdrew more than eight thousand Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005, his principal aim was to consolidate Israel’s colonisation of the West Bank, where the settler population immediately began to increase. But ‘disengagement’ had another purpose: to enable Israel’s air force to bomb Gaza at will, something they could not do when Israeli settlers lived…
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‘California Jewish Open’ Seeks ‘Connection’ During Division
Many used this space as an opportunity to explain their relationship to Judaism, or how a particular work came to be. Adam Thorman reflected on growing up reading the marginalia in pages of rabbinic arguments, his lesson in thoughtfully challenging ideas (and later, traditional landscape photography). Others took the opportunity to make explicit statements in solidarity with Palestinians, to cite…
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A new group is a safe space for observant Jews who oppose Israel’s war in Gaza
Since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7, traditionally observant Jews have often responded to the crisis with prayer — chanting psalms, setting an intention to keep the tragedy in mind or pairing their ritual with activism. A rally last month in front of the Israeli consulate in Midtown Manhattan mostly followed suit: A man wearing a prayer…
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Antisemitism Awareness Act is insult to Jews like me
I AM BOTH JEWISH and an Israeli citizen, so I was recently shocked to learn that Minority Whip Katherine Clark, who represents my district in Congress, believes that I am an antisemite. In particular, Clark voted for the so-called Antisemitism Awareness Act, a deceptively named bill intended to delegitimize criticism of Israel by conflating it with hatred of Jewish people.…
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Marc Klein, Bay Area editor who led Jewish journalism into the digital age, dies at 75
(J. via JTA) — In 1984, when Marc Klein showed up in San Francisco, the Jewish Bulletin was just that: a community bulletin that ran on mimeographs, manual typewriters and carbon paper. By the time he completed his nearly 28-year tenure as editor and publisher, a thoroughly modernized Bulletin — renamed J. in 2003 — had become inarguably one of…
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Why Months of Jewish Discrimination and the Normalization of Antisemitism on University Campuses Must Stop
This weekend, two people approached a Jewish girls elementary school in Toronto and fired multiple gun shots. There was no one present at the school at the time, but the shooting will only heighten the fears of a Canadian Jewish community that has now experienced multiple shootings at schools and community centres, attacks on students, and vandalism at Jewish businesses…
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