Mandatory minimum sentencing is proven to be bad policy. It won’t stop hate crimes
Extensive evidence shows the government’s plan to legislate mandatory minimum sentences for hate crimes, including ...
Why conservative American evangelicals are among Israel's strongest supporters
One of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first meetings in the United States this week was with American ...
How this American moved to Italy and became the country’s ‘first woman rabbi’
After visiting Italy for the first time with her father in 1975, Rabbi Barbara Aiello, from the United States, remembers thinking, “I’ll live here one day.” Almost three decades later she was doing ...
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Middle East experts split over recent moves against U.S. foreign aid, USAID
While some believe the agency is in serious need of reform and oversight, others worry a vacuum of U.S. engagement could ...
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Rejected elsewhere, these LGBTQ+ Jews find love and acceptance in the Connecticut woods
In many Orthodox Jewish settings, including the vast Haredi world, strict adherence to Torah and Jewish law has kept many ...
Some Jewish leaders renew calls for X boycott as Musk’s power grows
Citing “Nazi salute” and antisemitic content, rabbis break with ADL in pressing advertisers, app stores to drop X ...
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Sen. Ron Wyden says the Democrats need ‘chutzpah’ to return to power
His definition of chutzpah is a little less traditional: Rather than describing an audacious and even shameless act of gall, ...
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A South Carolina rabbi’s Holocaust memorial speech was pulled from public TV for being too ‘political’
A rabbi in South Carolina used the occasion of a Holocaust memorial ceremony to draw parallels to modern-day federal and ...
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Jewish Reform seminary sells New York City building as contraction accelerates
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion announced the sale of the Greenwich Village building at West 4th Street to ...