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Jewish youth group mocked for hosting 'Yom Kippur lunch meetup'

The group says: 'there is no fasting required to be considered a good Jew'

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Jewish youth group mocked for hosting 'Yom Kippur lunch meetup'

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 12: A yeshiva school bus drives through Borough Park on September 12, 2022 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Following recent reports and test results showing yeshiva students not receiving an adequate education, New Yorkâ€™s Board of Regents will vote this week on a proposal that would allow the state to reject a yeshivaâ€™s secular curriculum. The Hasidic Jewish community has pushed back on reforms in yeshiva schools, which number over 300 in New York City. Critics of the schools have long said that graduating students are not receiving an education that prepares them for a modern job market. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Dominic Green

By Dominic Green

Brooklyn's Chasidic schools fail the NY Times test

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2JTYGNE Philadelphia, United States. 01st Sep, 2022. U.S. President Joe Biden addresses the Nation during a primetime speech on extremism in front of the historic Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA, USA on September 1, 2022. Credit: OOgImages/Alamy Live News

Green's America

It's bad news for the Jews as rival parties hurl the f-word

By Dominic Green

3 min read

New York Synagogue removes smoked salmon from kiddush citing 'environmental concerns'

New York Synagogue removes smoked salmon from kiddush citing 'environmental concerns'

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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - SEPTEMBER 01: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a primetime speech at Independence National Historical Park September 1, 2022 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. President Biden spoke on â€œthe continued battle for the Soul of the Nation.â€ (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Robert Philpot

By Robert Philpot

The Jewish academic that could hold the key to keeping the Democrats in power

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The American far right seethes with deep antisemitism

Jonathan Freedland

By Jonathan Freedland

The American far right seethes with deep antisemitism

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Aerial shot of agricultural land with Mount Hood seen in distance with its snowcapped peak in Oregon, USA.

Green's America

Why Oregon is stumbling over Swastika Mountain

By Dominic Green

2 min read

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Iranian octopus is only losing tentacles in Syria

Precision strikes alone will not oust Tehran's proxies from its neighbour's territory

By Seth J. Frantzman

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September 1, 2022 13:18

TOPSHOT - A crowd gathers during commemorations marking the second anniversary of the killing of top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis (posters), in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, on January 8, 2022. - The January 3, 2020 strike against Soleimani, the architect of Iran's Middle Eastern military strategy, was ordered by then US president Donald Trump, and it also killed his Iraqi lieutenant Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the Hashed's deputy chief. (Photo by Hussein FALEH / AFP) (Photo by HUSSEIN FALEH/AFP via Getty Images)

Book review: The Last Colony - A long fight to allow a people to return home

Renowned international barrister Philippe Sands returns with the story of how the entire local population of the Chagos archipelago were uprooted by a 1960s lease deal between Britain and the US

By Amanda Hopkinson

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September 1, 2022 11:17

Chagossian families celebrate at the Groupe Refugies Chagos headquarters on February 25, 2019 the news that the United Nations' top court had told Britain to give up control of the Indian Ocean archipelago. - The UN's International Court of Justice in The Hague said in a legal opinion on February 25 that Britain had illegally split the islands from Mauritius before independence in 1968, after which the entire population of islanders was evicted. It is a major development in a decades-old row with Mauritius over an archipelago that is now home to a huge US airbase. The court's opinion is non-binding but carries heavy symbolic and political weight. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) (Photo credit should read STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)

Mo TV review: A 'Dramedy' lacking in mo-mentum

For all its charm, this story of Palestinian refugee family in Texas doesn't quite work as a drama or a comedy

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September 1, 2022 09:46

MO. Mo Amer as Mo in episode 108 of MO. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2022

Robert Philpot

By Robert Philpot

Did Pat Buchanan, the father of the MAGA movement, have a problem with Jews?

The American right has often flirted with unsavoury views towards Israel and Jews

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August 31, 2022 09:02

Did Pat Buchanan, the father of the MAGA movement, have a problem with Jews?

Cruising Cape Cod

Explore an East Coast playground with a fascinating past

By Janice Hopper

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August 28, 2022 15:30

Cruising Cape Cod

San Francisco city council candidate apologises for calling Jewish journalist a Nazi

There are calls for Leanna Louie to quit the race for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors

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August 26, 2022 14:15

San Francisco city council candidate apologises for calling Jewish journalist a Nazi

Dominic Green

By Dominic Green

The first attack on Biden’s Iran deal will come from the US Congress

There are midterm elections in November and the Republicans look set to win in a landslide - an Iran deal would be another albatross around the Democrats’ necks

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August 26, 2022 14:00

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 07: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken speaks during a discussion at the Media Summit of the Americas at the ASU California Center on June 7, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. The event coincides with the Ninth Summit of the Americas as leaders from North, Central and South America travel to Los Angeles for the summit to discuss issues such as trade and migration. The United States is hosting the summit for the first time since 1994, when it took place in Miami. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

University of Denver professor suggests Mossad was behind Salman Rushdie stabbing

Professor Nader Hashemi said it was one of a range of possible reasons for the attacker's radicalisation

By Georgia L Gilholy

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August 23, 2022 17:25

University of Denver professor suggests Mossad was behind Salman Rushdie stabbing

Rabbi jailed for tax fraud used Jewish code words in text conversations with lawyer

'Challah' was code for cash and 'wrapping tefillin' was codeword for picking up gold

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August 23, 2022 14:09

Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, of the Chabad of Poway Synagogue, and Ivanka Trump arrive for an event to celebrate a national day of prayer, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on May 2, 2019. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

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