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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Ted Cruz will have hundreds of influential Republican donors and Jewish leaders all to himself this weekend in Las Vegas as he addresses the Republican Jewish Coalition. Cruz's rivals for the GOP presidential nomination, Donald Trump and John Kasich, declined invitations to attend — a puzzling
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AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Anne Frank foundation on Friday criticized an "escape room" game made to look like the Amsterdam apartment where the teenage Jewish diarist hid with her family from the Netherlands' Nazi occupiers during World War II. According to its website, the recently opened Escape Bunker
Democratic primary
(RNS) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — a political independent, a socialist and possibly the most liberal member of Congress — may be a cultural Jew, but he's campaigned on the idea that people of faith and those with strong moral values can stand together. He even took his pitch — that
Catholic
PARIS (RNS) — On Fridays, the Boucherie de l'Argonne closes early. Its Muslim workers head to afternoon prayers. The Jews prepare for Shabbat — a practical accommodation for staff sharing similar roots and cultural references. "We work well together," says Philippe Zribi, a Tunisian-born Jew whose family runs
Massachusetts
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hillary clinton
Sen. Bernie Sanders is surging in the polls, but Hillary Clinton has long been the front-runner for the Democratic nomination in the 2016 presidential race. If elected, how would U.S.-Israel relations fare under her watch? To gain insight into the prospect of a Clinton administration for the Jewish
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Conservative Judaism has always had something akin to middle-child syndrome: squeezed on both sides by the Orthodox and Reform movements. But lately, its identity crisis has become acute. This week, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ) — an umbrella body that represents Conservative congregations across North America—is set to
Israel
A recently released report by Israel's National Insurance Institute shows that 1.7 million Israelis live under the poverty line, including 23 percent of the country's seniors and 13.7 percent of working families, up from 7 percent in 1999. Those are the numbers that push
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