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JTA – A married couple from New York were killed when their small plane crashed near Boston.
Dr. Michael Graver, 65, and Jodi Cohen, 52, of Long Island, were killed Saturday morning when …
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9/20/18
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JERUSALEM (JTA) – Rawan Masalha and Inbar Shaked-Vardi were in their ninth-grade geography class earlier this year when a fight began over the name of their textbook, “Israel: Its People and Area.”
“The Palestinian students started …
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Ben Sales
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12/4/14
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(JTA) – Jews looking for a rooting interest in the concluding games of this year’s NBA Finals might have one now, thanks to a head-turning wardrobe choice from Golden State Warriors star …
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Jacob Gurvis
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6/15/22
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PROVIDENCE – Demonstrators stretched a long banner across the Rhode Island Statehouse steps on the evening of Oct. 24, which said in giant block letters: STOP ANTISEMITISM. Many of the …
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JEWISH RHODE ISLAND STAFF
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10/26/23
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(JTA) – As rap star Kanye West continually refuses to back down from his antisemitic rants, some of the many institutions he has ties with have begun to jump ship. The fashion tastemakers Balenciaga and Vogue have announced they will no longer be working with him. Hollywood talent giant CAA has dropped him, and a planned documentary about him has been scrapped.
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ANDREW LAPIN
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10/25/22
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(JTA) — The first thing Carl Reiner does every morning is pick up the paper and read the obituary section to check if he’s named there.
“If I’m not, …
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Curt Schleier
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6/9/17
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WASHINGTON ( JTA ) — Old-fashioned postcards remain one of the best ways to get out the vote in underserved communities. Who knew?
I picked up this nugget while reporting a story this week …
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Ron Kampeas
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7/24/20
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(JTA) — The first time the Metropolitan Museum of Art tweeted a picture that appeared unmistakably to Jewish followers to be a ritual object used in Jewish prayer with the label …
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Marcy Oster
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7/27/20
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JTA – Jewish groups called for civil and serious discussion about race, democracy and justice in the wake of a Missouri grand jury’s decision not to indict the police officer who shot and killed an unarmed African-American teen in Ferguson. …
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12/4/14
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NEW YORK (JTA) – An estimated 25,000 people marched across the Brooklyn Bridge and held a rally on Jan. 5 to protest rising anti-Semitism in and around New York City.
The rally …
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BEN SALES
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1/8/20
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