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Where the Crawdads Sing film review: A sanitised adaptation of Delia Owens's 2018 bestseller

Normal People's Daisy Edgar-Jones puts in a good performance but it can't rescue a movie that fails to truly grasp both the era and the region it is set in

By Linda Marric

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Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones) in Columbia Pictures' WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING.

US President Joe Biden disembarks from his plane upon landing at Ben Gurion Airport in Lod near Tel Aviv, on July 13, 2022, as he starts his first tour of the Middle East since entering the White House last year. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

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Joe Biden’s gaffes on his Middle East tour are a symbol of modern America

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‘I told President Biden that he reminded me of my husband’

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CHICAGO, IL - APRIL 12: Illinois gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker attends the Idas Legacy Fundraiser Luncheon on April 12, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. The luncheon helps support the Ida B. Wells Legacy Committee which works to develop progressive female African-American political candidates. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

By Robert Philpot

Thirsty Democrats eye Pritzker’s liberal oasis

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Joe Biden kneels in front of Holocaust survivors at emotional Yad Vashem ceremony

By Ben Rusnak

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The Gray Man Film review: an enjoyable romp slightly let down by its meandering screenplay

By Linda Marric

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Meet the Jewish space engineer who helped bring us images taking us closer to moment of creation

By Jonathan Sacerdoti

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By Anshel Pfeffer

A weary Biden's arrival to Israel was anticlimactic but sincere

Biden’s warm words in his speech all seemed sincere, but he’s suffering from the plummeting ratings in the polls back home

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July 14, 2022 10:55

Secret Service agent sent back to the US after allegedly assaulting a woman in Jerusalem bar

A member of the team supporting the president was briefly detained by Israeli police

By Josh Kaplan

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July 13, 2022 15:05

U.S. Secret Service officer, wearing a vest with various equipment attached, stands in front of White House. Washington DC. USA

Students and staff at NY college pledge re-education programs for Jews to 'unlearn Zionism'

The letter has been criticised as a ‘throwback to Soviet re-education campaigns to un-Jew the Jews’

By Ben Bloch

3 min read

July 13, 2022 11:09

Students and staff at NY college pledge re-education programs for Jews to 'unlearn Zionism'

Fury of orthodox leaders as Israeli courts allow secular weddings in Israel for the first time

Currently non-orthodox Jewish marriages are not recognised as binding in Israel

By Josh Kaplan

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July 11, 2022 15:30

Beautiful outgoing wedding set up. Jewish Hupa on romantic wedding ceremony , wedding outdoor on the lawn. Wedding decor. A pink box for presents in the shape of a heart is on the table.

Tennessee judges dismiss Jewish couple’s lawsuit claiming adoption discrimination

A court dismissed a claim that a Christian agency refusing adoption services to a Jewish couple was discrimination

By JC Reporter

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July 11, 2022 14:06

Tennessee judges dismiss Jewish couple’s lawsuit claiming adoption discrimination

By Robert Philpot

Stephen Breyer's civility has never been more needed in the US

The now retired Supreme Court Justice was no caricature liberal

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July 11, 2022 11:14

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 21: Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer participates in a panel on "Lessons from the Past for the Future of Human Rights: A Conversation" at the Gewirz Student Center on the campus of the Georgetown University Law Center April 21, 2014 in Washington, DC. Organized by the law center, the New York Review of Books and the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law the forum focused on the future of human rights. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Shabbat services cancelled at Texas synagogue after FBI warning

San Antonio Jewish Federation said last night no known imminent threat

By JC Reporter

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July 10, 2022 11:01

Shabbat services cancelled at Texas synagogue after FBI warning

The inside story of carnage at a Jewish suburb's Fourth of July parade

The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band set a celebratory tone before Robert Crimo shattered the revelry by opening fire from a rooftop

By Jonathan Sacerdoti

8 min read

July 7, 2022 14:17

HIGHLAND PARK, IL - JULY 04: Law enforcement works the scene after a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade on July 4, 2022 in Highland Park, Illinois. Reports indicate at least six people were killed and more than 20 injured in the shooting. (Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

Ex-CIA chief: Iran nukes could just be a bluff

Norman Roule, who worked for the US agency for 34 years, says Tehran may instead be using the mere threat as a 'diplomatic lever'

By David Rose

4 min read

July 7, 2022 14:13

Ex-CIA chief: Iran nukes could just be a bluff

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Where the Crawdads Sing film review: A sanitised adaptation of Delia Owens's 2018 bestseller

Joe Biden’s gaffes on his Middle East tour are a symbol of modern America

‘I told President Biden that he reminded me of my husband’

Thirsty Democrats eye Pritzker’s liberal oasis

Joe Biden kneels in front of Holocaust survivors at emotional Yad Vashem ceremony

The Gray Man Film review: an enjoyable romp slightly let down by its meandering screenplay

Meet the Jewish space engineer who helped bring us images taking us closer to moment of creation

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