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Colorado Democrats condemn Israel
Chris LeppekJul 23, 2020
adoption last weekend by Colorado Democrats of a resolution many Jews see as anti-Israel or anti-Semitic has left local Jewish leaders disappointed and concerned over...
COVID consequences: delay, denial
Andrea JacobsJul 23, 2020
sudden pain grabs your chest. Your arm goes numb. Although you know these are potential warning signs of a heart attack or stroke, you attribute the red flags to...
Israel and American policing
Ben Sales, JTAJul 23, 2020
JERUSALEM — In June, as protests against policing in the US took hold, so did an accusation about a group of programs that sends American police chiefs to learn from...
John Lewis’ history with US Jews
Ron Kampeas, JTAJul 23, 2020
WASHINGTON — When John Lewis, the civil rights icon and congressman from Georgia, died at 80 last weekend, Jews in America and abroad lost an ally of nearly six...
Jewish Republicans sell Trump
Ron Kampeas, JTAJul 23, 2020
WASHINGTON — When Jewish Republicans met online last weekend to talk about the best way to defeat Joe Biden, the conversation kept sliding back to a question that has...
Banner speaks brotherhood
JTAJul 23, 2020
By Toby Tabachnik, Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle via JTA PITTSBURGH — Just two days after Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson posted an anti-Semitic message...
DeSean Jackson, harshly criticized, says he’ ll visit Auschwitz
JTAJul 16, 2020
PHILADELPHIA — NFL star DeSean Jackson, who last week apologized for posting anti-Semitic quotes attributed to Adolf Hitler and Louis Farrakhan, accepted a Holocaust...
New York Times opinion writer resigns
Josefin Dolsten, JTAJul 16, 2020
NEW YORK — Bari Weiss, the Jewish opinion writer and editor who has been a lightning rod for left-wing critics, has resigned from The New York Times. The author of a...
A Torah falls
Andrea JacobsJul 16, 2020
Yaakov Meyer did not see the Torah scroll fall to the floor on the Fast of Tammuz, the solemn beginning of the three-week mourning period that culminates on Tisha...
Did Brooklyn’s chasidic community achieve herd immunity?
Shira Hanau, JTAJul 16, 2020
NEW YORK — The front page of the June 26 issue of Der Yid, one of the most widely circulated Yiddish newspapers among New York’s chasidic Orthodox communities, made...
