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Jewish passengers kicked off Lufthansa flight to get $2.7m settlement

It follows an incident at Frankfurt Airport earlier this year when more than a hundred people who were visibly Jewish were barred from a flight by airline staff and armed police

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Jewish passengers kicked off Lufthansa flight to get $2.7m settlement

EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN - NOVEMBER 09: Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) speaks to reporters at a press conference on November 09, 2022 in East Lansing, Michigan. Rep. Slotkin won her midterm race against Republican congressional candidate Tom Barrett in Michigan's 7th Congressional district. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Robert Philpot

By Robert Philpot

The Jewish Democrat who defied political gravity

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Man arrested after performing Nazi salute and screaming 'sieg heil' at US airport

Man arrested after performing Nazi salute and screaming 'sieg heil' at US airport

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Bones and All film review: A cannibal road trip

Bones and All film review: A cannibal road trip

By Linda Marric

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Shireen Abu Akleh: The FBI’s illegal Israel inquiry

Dominic Green

By Dominic Green

Shireen Abu Akleh: The FBI’s illegal Israel inquiry

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WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 15: Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray prepares to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill on November 15, 2022 in Washington, DC. Wray, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and National Counterterrorism Center Director Christine Abizaid testified about the current threat level against the United States, including both physical and cyber attacks. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

FBI Director warns that America's Jews 'desperately' need support

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Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro speaks during a rally with Democratic candidate for US Senate John Fetterman, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 5, 2022. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Robert Philpot

By Robert Philpot

The threat to American democracy may be diminished but it’s hardly disappeared

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Book review: The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature - No conspiracy, we’re just connected

Author has notion of meritocracy in his sights in unconventional perspective on a golden age for Jews in American literature

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November 17, 2022 14:49

Book review: The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature - No conspiracy, we’re just connected

Dominic Green

By Dominic Green

Trump, Chapelle and America’s worried Jews

After MAGA's flop in the Midterms, Jews now face new threats from the left

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November 17, 2022 11:58

LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 04: Comedian Dave Chappelle attends the 2014 GQ Men Of The Year party at Chateau Marmont on December 4, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images for GQ)

Man who threatened to blow up St. Louis Synagogue jailed for 30 months

The judge ordered him to receive a mental health evaluation as well as a custodial sentence

By Karen Glaser

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November 15, 2022 16:27

Man who threatened to blow up St. Louis Synagogue jailed for 30 months

Israel says it will not co-operate with FBI investigation into killing of Al Jazeera journalist

Defence minister Benny Gantz called the US decision a 'grave mistake'

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November 15, 2022 11:46

A mural depicting slain Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is illuminated with headlights on a street in the Arab town of Umm Al-Fahm in northern Israel, on September 5, 2022. - The Israeli army conceded for the first time that one of its soldiers had likely shot Palestinian-American reporter Shireen Abu Akleh after having mistaken her for a militant. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

Hadley Freeman

By Hadley Freeman

If Jews actually ran Hollywood, we'd see a lot fewer idiotic Holocaust movies

We only need to look at what's in cinemas to see that Jews clearly do not run Hollywood

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November 14, 2022 18:04

If Jews actually ran Hollywood, we'd see a lot fewer idiotic Holocaust movies

Pittsburgh's new horizons

Swapping steel for space: exploring a reinvented US city

By Rupert Parker

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November 13, 2022 18:30

Pittsburgh's new horizons

Robert Philpot

By Robert Philpot

The US midterms were a quietly good night for America's Jews

The Red Wave failed to materialise and several Jews were elected against the odds

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November 13, 2022 13:14

OAKS, PA - NOVEMBER 08: Democratic gubernatorial candidate, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro speaks to supporters at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center on November 8, 2022 in Oaks, Pennsylvania. Shapiro defeated Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano. (Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Images)

Good or bad Jew? Check your privilege

Emily Tamkin's new book examines the American Jewish crisis. Zoe Strimpel meets her

By Zoe Strimpel

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November 11, 2022 12:35

Good or bad Jew? Check your privilege

He’s Shabbat observant, he keeps kosher and he’s just won Pennsylvania

Josh Shapiro’s victory in Pennsylvania’s race for governor was one of the most closely-watched in the US midterm elections

By Daniel Ben-David

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November 10, 2022 16:29

He’s Shabbat observant, he keeps kosher and he’s just won Pennsylvania

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