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Four years after Surfside condo collapse, investigators zero in on design and construction flaws
Four years after the collapse of Champlain Towers South killed 98 people in Surfside, investigators piecing together the ...
How Democrats in America’s most Jewish city embraced a critic of Israel for New York mayor
Zohran Mamdani, an outspoken critic of Israel, is the expected Democratic nominee for mayor in America’s most Jewish city and ...
Mamdani’s Success Spotlights a Deepening Rupture Among U.S. Jews
While Zohran Mamdani won over some Jewish supporters, other Jewish Democrats suggested that concerns about their community’s ...
They saved Jews from the Nazis. Eighty years later, two Dutch-Canadian couples named among the 'righteous'
Eimericus and Anna Maria Tijssen took in a young Jewish girl, while Hendrik and Frederika Veldboom hid a Jewish couple on ...
After centuries of isolation, ultra-Orthodox Jews engage with the world more than ever
The ultra-Orthodox Jewish subculture is engaging more with the outside world after centuries of separation. Within a minority ...
From Cyrus to Khamenei: Four Thousand Years of Persian-Jewish Relations
The history of Iranian-Israeli relations shows how ancient alliances can turn into modern conflicts, but maybe now is the ...
Jewish Journal2d
Foundation to Combat Antisemitism Names New President, JBBBSLA Raises $420K
The Foundation to Combat Antisemitism (FCAS) has named Adam Katz as its new president. He joins the organization at a time ...
The Forward on MSN3d
She revolutionized the world for LGBTQ Jews, and now she’s ready for a new challenge
I experienced the total 180 of ‘Oh my gosh — actually there is a religious Jewish life which is LGBTQ affirming, inclusive, ...
The Forward on MSN23d
A Jewish farmer drove 600 miles to rescue a century-old synagogue. Now he’s building a new one in a cornfield.
WHITE OAK, PENNSYLVANIA — Nik Jakobs, a Jewish cowboy with ... Holier. All four of his grandparents survived the Nazis. One of them, Edith, is still alive — 94 and sharp as ever. She’d spent nearly ...
New York mayoral candidate Mamdani defends campaign despite Democratic unease
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani defended his democratic socialism on Sunday and argued that his focus on ...
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Report: More than half of Jewish Columbia students faced discrimination last academic year
A new survey that documents Jew-hatred at Columbia University is “difficult to read,” according to Claire Shipman, the school’s acting president.The post Report: More than half of Jewish Columbia stud ...
The Forward2d
For this Persian Jewish casino magnate in Nevada, Israel is part of the deal
Persian Jewish casino owner John Farah immigrated from Tehran to America and now lives in Reno, Nevada, where he stands by ...