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Graham Platner, whose Maine Senate run has concerned Jews, becomes presumptive Democratic nominee
(JTA) — Graham Platner, the oyster farmer and political neophyte whose past Nazi tattoo and current anti-Israel rhetoric have caused concern among some Jewish groups, has effectively clinched the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine after his primary opponent Janet Mills suspended her campaign Thursday. A key Jewish Democrat, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer,…
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Attack on Jewish man outside Los Angeles synagogue investigated as hate crime
(JTA) — A Jewish man was assaulted on Monday evening behind a Los Angeles synagogue in what police say is being investigated as a hate crime. The assault, which took place behind Adas Torah, an Orthodox synagogue, in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Pico-Robertson, occurred after the victim says he was followed for a short…
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Jewish Theological Seminary names campus innovator Rabbi Mike Uram as next chancellor
(JTA) — The Jewish Theological Seminary has named Rabbi Mike Uram as its next chancellor, elevating a Jewish educator best known for his time as executive director of the University of Pennsylvania Hillel to lead Conservative Judaism’s flagship university and rabbinical school. Uram, 49, will succeed Shuly Rubin Schwartz, who is stepping down at the…
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New book details the long and winding road trod by the Beatles and Bob Dylan
Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other — and the World by Jim Windolf Simon and Schuster, 400 pages, $30 I ran into a neighbor the other day and we got to talking and he asked me what I was working on at the moment. I told…
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Police denied Jewish community’s request for more security before Sydney massacre, commission finds
(JTA) — Days before a massacre on a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach, Sydney, the region’s Jewish security organization asked the police to send officers to Hanukkah events in the city. The organization, the Community Security Group, had already worked with Chabad of Bondi to create a security plan for the event that included fencing…
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Jewish man arrested for allegedly firing pellet gun at left-wing activists in Rome
(JTA) — Italian Jewish leaders are condemning the alleged acts of Jewish man who was arrested this week after police said he fired a pellet gun at participants in a parade marking Italy’s Liberation Day from Nazism and fascism. Eitan Bondì, 21, was charged with attempted homicide in connection to the shooting of Rossana Gabrieli…
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British police pledge 25M pounds for Jewish security in wake of London stabbing
(JTA) — British police have allocated 25 million pounds, or about $33 million, in new funding to keep Jewish communities safe, officials announced on Thursday. The announcement came a day after a stabbing in the Orthodox neighborhood of Golders Green left two men injured and a community reeling. The stabbing has been ruled a terrorist…
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An important Jewish inventor you probably never heard of
דאָס איז איינער פֿון אַ סעריע קורצע אַרטיקלען אָנגעשריבן אױף אַ רעלאַטיװ גרינגן ייִדיש און געצילעװעט אױף סטודענטן. די מחברטע איז אַלײן אַ ייִדיש־סטודענטקע. דאָ קען מען לײענען די פֿריִערדיקע אַרטיקלען אין דער סעריע. מיט אַן ערך צװײ הונדערט יאָר צוריק, אין דער ערשטער העלפֿט פֿונעם 19טן יאָרהונדערט, איז אַבֿרהם שטערן געװען אַ באַװוּסטע פּערזענלעכקײט…
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He was president of his synagogue. Now he wants to be LA’s next mayor.
LOS ANGELES — Adam Miller volunteered with a Reform social justice movement as a teenager, lived in Israel as a young adult and was and became a leader of one of the country’s most successful synagogues. But Miller, a businessman who is running for mayor of Los Angeles, hasn’t said much about his Jewish background…
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Israel just quadrupled its PR budget to $730M. Experts say it won’t work.
(JTA) — Israel is betting nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars that it can talk its way out of a reputation crisis. Lawmakers in Jerusalem approved a 2026 national budget last month that includes roughly $730 million for public diplomacy — the broad category known in Hebrew as hasbara — more than four times the…
