(JTA) — Police in Detroit said Sunday that they had found no indication of a hate crime in their investigation of the murder of Samantha Woll, a prominent and beloved local Jewish leader found …
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Philissa Cramer
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10/23/23
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — More than half of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to President Joe Biden endorsing his policy of backing Israel in its war against Hamas, …
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Ron Kampeas
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10/23/23
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(JTA) — Hamas has freed two women, ages 79 and 85, whom it was holding hostage in Gaza, according to Israeli media reports.
The release of Nurit Yitzhak and Yocheved Lifshitz comes after …
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Ben Sales
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10/23/23
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(New York Jewish Week) — Yeshiva University’s campuses have been somber since the devastating Hamas attack on Israel earlier this month, and Jewish communities worldwide were left anxious …
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Luke Tress
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10/20/23
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(JTA) — Hamas has released two American hostages, a mother and a daughter, whom it was holding in the Gaza Strip. The release was confirmed by an organization dedicated to the rescue of the …
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Ron Kampeas
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10/20/23
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(JTA) — Two days after Hamas killed 1,400 of his fellow Israelis, Raz Elispur saw something on social media that broke through the fog of the crisis. It was a first-person account by May Hayat, …
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Jackie Hajdenberg
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10/19/23
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PROVIDENCE – More than 100 people crowded into the social hall at the Alliance’s Dwares Jewish Community Center Monday night to hear Gil Hoffman discuss anti-Israel bias in the media. …
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FRAN OSTENDORF
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10/19/23
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(JTA) – A historic but defunct synagogue in Tunisia was reduced to rubble on Tuesday amid mass rioting after an explosion in Gaza that Hamas blamed on Israel.
Hundreds of people were …
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Andrew Lapin
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10/19/23
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(JTA) — At least 300 people were arrested at a Jewish-led rally in the U.S. Capitol calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and condemning Israel for a “potential genocide” of the …
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Ben Sales
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10/19/23
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There is a double negative for so many of us this week as we reckon with the ways in which our Jewishness invalidates the rest of our identities, as our Jewishness makes us people no longer deserving of protection. I have never been to Israel, …
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SARAH GREENLEAF
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10/18/23
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