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Is Israel or Iran a bigger threat to the U.S.? Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed won’t say

Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed was asked multiple times by a debate moderator on Thursday which country he considers a bigger threat to the U.S.: Iran or Israel. Each time, he parried. “That’s a ...
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Minnesota man charged with ISIS-inspired plot on Jewish-owned Mall of America

The FBI accused an 18-year-old man of buying an AK-47 assault rifle with plans to commit a mass shooting in support of ISIS at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, the largest indoor ...
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Ossoff says IDF violated law of armed conflict in Gaza, but genocide is an issue for international courts

Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff and Republican challenger Rep. Mike Collins clashed over Israel’s conduct in Gaza, U.S. weapons sales to Israel and the war in Iran during Thursday’s debate in Georgia’s ...
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CLARITY Act Stalls as CFTC Proposes Crypto Rules With XRP and Solana in Focus

The Senate did not reach the 60-vote threshold required to advance the CLARITY Act in September. The result prevented the ...
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Anne Carson — a poet of spirituality and ‘small things’ — has won the Nobel Prize

Anne Carson, today awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, can be a difficult poet. Much of her work is erudite, complex and genre-defying; it is poetry and prose and criticism and translation and, ...
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On Oct. 7, Mamdani spoke in support of Palestinians. A father from Gaza did it better.

On Wednesday in New York City, on the third anniversary of Oct. 7, two people spoke up for Palestinians. One of them was New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The other person actually said something ...
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Three years after Oct. 7, survey says Jewish engagement has reached an elevated ‘new normal’

Levels of engagement in Jewish life have risen overall, establishing a “new normal” three years after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, according to a survey released Thursday by the Jewish Federations of ...
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What the ‘synagogue of Satan’ slur tells us about Christian antisemitism

The man charged with arson in the burning of Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Miss., called the institution a “synagogue of Satan” in an interview with authorities, according to an FBI affidavit.
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Newly aired recordings of paramedic Amit Mann’s final hours renew push to let families access Oct. 7 records

Three years after paramedic Amit Mann, 22, was killed by Hamas while treating the wounded in Kibbutz Be’eri on Oct. 7, newly aired recordings of her final calls revealed fresh and harrowing details ...
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Mamdani marks first Oct. 7 anniversary as mayor with statement blasting Israel’s war in Gaza as genocide

On the third anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel — his first commemoration as New York City’s mayor — Zohran Mamdani mourned the Israeli victims and the 251 people taken hostage ...
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They survived Oct. 7. At Rock Camp, they found a way to feel alive again.

They tried to kill us. We survived. Let’s eat.” Alan King’s joke about Jewish holidays gets to the essence of Jewish ...
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Bereaved mother: ‘Every day is Oct. 7. Still.’

Some 50,000 Israelis filled Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park on Wednesday night to mark three years since the Oct. 7 attacks, at a bereaved families’ memorial ceremony that for the first time took place with no ...