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With ‘Nonnegotiable’, Michigan rabbis lay it on the table for El-Sayed

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Liberal Michigan rabbis and other Jewish leaders are calling on the Democratic Party to agree to a list of “nonnegotiable” principles about Jewish safety and Israel as the party’s US Senate candidate in the state, Abdul El-Sayed, seeks to make inroads with Jewish voters.
International

UK sanctions Jewish settlements

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The United Kingdom, France and Canada will ban goods produced in the West Bank settlements and Jewish neighborhoods of East Jerusalem, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told Parliament on Sept. 8, stating that all such communities were deemed by his country to be illegal.
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Feminist leader, thinker Gloria Steinem dies

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Gloria Steinem, the feminist who turbocharged the women’s rights movement and cast the liberation of women as part of the broader project of eliminating other bigotries, died at 92.
International

In the middle of a devasting war, Zelensky honors Sharansky

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President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded a medal of honor on Aug. 27 to Natan Sharansky in Kiev for his efforts to help Ukraine and preserve the memory of the Holocaust there.
Israel

Jewish politician joins Arab party ahead of Israel elections

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Former Knesset Member Yoav Segalovitz announced Aug. 31 that he had joined the Arab the Ra’am party led by Mansour Abbas in an attempt to give the coalition of opposition parties enough votes to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oct. 27 Israeli election.
Israel

Israeli Nobel Prize-winning chemist Ada Yonath dies

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Professor Ada Yonath, the Israeli chemist who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her research into the structure and function of the ribosome — the tiny molecular machine inside cells that reads genetic instructions and uses them to build the proteins essential for life — died on Monday, Aug. 31, at 87.
National

In California, ‘Jewish’ is ethnic, racial identity

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California is poised to become the first state to deem “Jewish identity” an ethnic and racial identity, after lawmakers gave final approval to the groundbreaking legislation on Aug. 31. The SB 1387 bill expands the definition of ethnicity “to include Jewish identity” in demographic data collection.
National

Michigan’s El-Sayed apologizes for Temple Israel response

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Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Michigan, apologized on Aug. 29 for his response to the March 12 attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Mich.
Israel

Sanctions threatened over E1 expansion

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The UK threatened to sanction Israelis involved in West Bank settlement expansion after the Jewish state’s Lands Authority opened bids for 1,234 homes in the largely underdeveloped E1 section of Ma’aleh Adumim.
Israel

Healing journey to South Africa for wounded IDF

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Ten wounded Israeli soldiers traveled to South Africa recently for a recovery program combining support from local Jewish communities with a demanding trek through the Drakensberg mountain range.
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