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Fast Forward Will Scharf, co-founder of ‘Jews Against Soros,’ is Trump’s new White House staff secretary
Scharf faced antisemitic attacks during his failed run for Missouri attorney general
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Does the Orthodox ChatGPT think women can be rabbis?
What AI for the yeshiva world reveals about Orthodox Judaism
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They survived a ‘pogrom.’ Now Palestinians in Hawara fear life will only get worse
'Next year, Hawara will be a real disaster,' said Ziyad Abdullah, the owner of a struggling auto parts store in the West Bank town
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Stunning new fertility treatments are being developed. Would rabbis approve?
In-vitro gametogenesis turns skin cells into eggs. The Jewish take on reproductive tech can be surprisingly complicated
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That Jewish News Show: Talking Netflix’s ‘Jewish Matchmaking’ with Aleeza Ben Shalom
On this episode of ‘That Jewish News Show,’ Aleeza Ben Shalom discusses 'Jewish Matchmaking' on Netflix
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Why did Israel kill more than 2,000 dogs in 2022?
Israel shoots thousands of stray dogs every year, many of them in the West Bank. The official reason is to prevent cases of rabies, but reducing their numbers appears to be the real goal
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Sports ‘A simple shared love’: A Jewish sportswriter pays tribute to his immigrant father’s baseball dreams
Veteran sportswriter Jerry Izenberg's book about his Lithuania-born father and growing up Jewish in Newark will publish on May 1
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Jews are genetically prone to stomach problems. Scientists are starting to understand why
Researchers found eight genetic variations unique to Ashkenazi Jews that lead to diseases like Crohn’s and colitis
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That Jewish News Show: Talking ‘Traffic’ with Ben Smith, the Pittsburgh trial and more
On this episode 'That Jewish News Show,' Laura and Benyamin are joined by Ben Smith to discuss 'Traffic' and the future of media
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‘I was sick to my heart’: Holocaust survivor, 94, returns to the Auschwitz cell block where he spent years of his childhood
No survivor had ever before returned to Cell Block 8
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The Dominican Republic was a haven for Jews fleeing the Nazis. A museum project could tell that story.
Joe Benjamin, who grew up a refugee in “tropical Zion,” is pushing the Caribbean country’s government to fund the project, which he’s pitching as a tourist draw.
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‘A new phase of Zionism’: Young U.S. Jews celebrate an ‘alternative’ Israeli Independence Day
As Israeli turns 75, an 'alternative Yom Hatzmaut' celebration in Israel’s secular capital combined revelry with protest
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