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Rabbi Ari Berman, president of Yeshiva University, speaks during an event in August 2024. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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Ari Berman, Yeshiva U president, to deliver benediction at Trump’s inauguration

Ben Sales by Ben Sales January 15, 2025January 15, 2025
Deborah Lipstadt outside a courthouse during her trial against Holocaust denier David Irving in London, April 11, 2000. (Peter Jordan/PA Images via Getty Images)
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Deborah Lipstadt, exiting as US antisemitism envoy, is hoping for the best under Trump

Lauren Markoe by Lauren Markoe January 15, 2025January 15, 2025
Police block the entrance to the main synagogue at Chabad headquarters due to safety concerns, Jan. 9, 2024. (Luke Tress)
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6 Chabad tunnel defendants plead guilty

Ben Sales by Ben Sales January 14, 2025January 14, 2025
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at his confirmation hearing. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
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Pete Hegseth, in Senate hearing, blames Oct. 7 on U.S. leaving Afghanistan

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Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, left, and Joel Kaplan, named in January 2025 as Meta's president of global affairs, descend a staircase after leaving a meeting with a Republican senator in Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2019. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
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Jewish groups pushed Meta to crack down on hate speech. Now, the company is reversing course.

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev January 13, 2025January 13, 2025
Peter and Zechariah Mehler, Jewish Milwaukee residents, freely admit to having torn down a pro-Palestinian mural depicting a Star of David turning into a swastika. (Courtesy)
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A rabbi and his son were arrested for vandalizing a swastika mural. Are they heroes or hooligans?

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Screenshot from a livestream of a service at Kehillat Israel in December 2024.
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A synagogue that survived the Palisades fire has become a refuge for many who lost their homes

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer January 10, 2025January 10, 2025
Kehillat Israel in the Pacific Palisades on Wednesday afternoon, as firefighters battled blazes on either side. (Louis Keene/Forward)
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Their Pacific Palisades synagogue is standing, but all three rabbis lost their homes

Louis Keene by Louis Keene January 10, 2025January 10, 2025
a metal gate with metal Stars of David stands amid rubble of a burned down building
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‘Do you have the Torahs?’ Synagogue races L.A. wildfire to rescue its past and future

Benyamin Cohen by Benyamin Cohen January 9, 2025January 10, 2025
a sign in a parking lot reads "RESERVED AT ALL TIMES FOR RABBI" as a synagogue building burns in the background
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Jewish community springs into action as devastating Los Angeles-area fires widen

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer January 9, 2025January 10, 2025

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