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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez considering withdrawal from Americans for Peace Now event memorializing Yitzhak Rabin Avoiding politics is a political act, no matter what Rabbi Jonathan Sacks says A Google search for ‘Jewish baby strollers’ yields anti-Semitic images. An extremist campaign may be to blame. ‘Tehran’ is a groundbreaking Israeli spy show about immigrant identity Nearly 80 years after the Babyn Yar massacre, Ukrainian researchers lift victims out of anonymity Jewish woman who helped take down sex-trafficking ring in 1930s honored in Buenos Aires Not feeling it in Zoom synagogue? Going outside could help. Michael Oren published a book of short stories. He’s more worried about the future of literature than democracy. Jewish COVID-19 second wave updates: Orthodox radio host calls Jewish NYC health official a ‘Jew Hater’ Friend of Anne Frank lays first stone of Amsterdam’s newest Holocaust monument Hasidic Jews have rebbes. Secular Jews have RBG.

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