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A team of volunteers from Israel’s Zaka search-and-rescue organization is in Houston to help with the cleanup in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
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Hillary Clinton blamed attacks by Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primary for president on her eventual loss in the general election to Donald Trump.
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The body of a Charedi Orthodox mother from New York’s Rockland County who had been reported missing in April was discovered in the Hudson River upstate.
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Organizers of the March for Racial Justice in Washington, D.C., are using a Yom Kippur mea culpa as a way to build stronger ties with the Jewish community.
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President Donald Trump will appoint Fred Malek to chair the board of a prominent think tank affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution.
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Miriam Ballin became a medic. She was not just going to stand idly by while Tropical Storm Harvey flooded her native Houston.
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The Jewish community in Houston has seen “devastating” damage from Hurricane Harvey and could take years to recover, a federation official said.
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A Jewish family is suing a Chicago-area funeral home for botching a burial so badly that the casket toppled and splintered in the grave.
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As Hurricane Harvey bore down on Houston Friday, Vicki Samuels Levy dashed over to the offices of the Houston Jewish Herald-Voice.
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The White House refrained from criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for promising on Monday that he would not uproot West Bank settlements.
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Tropical Storm Harvey continues to barrage the Texas coast — deluging the Houston area, destroying property and filling convention centers with evacuees.
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Michael Wadler’s tefillin were among the only things he owned that survived Hurricane Harvey. As he was tossing objects into a trash bag before dawn ...
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A large portion of the Jewish population of Houston is living in flooded areas. "We know that most of our Jewish institutions have flooded”
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The State Department will fill the post of anti-Semitism envoy following the urging of lawmakers and Jewish groups, but will do away with other positions.
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Jewish groups condemned President Donald Trump’s pardon of former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio. The White House announced Arpaio’s pardon on Friday night.
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Michael Cohen emailed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman to ask him to help advance a stalled project to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.
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Even as Hurricane Harvey continued to soak Southeast Texas with unprecedented floods, the local Jewish community was already planning the relief effort.
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Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-NY) discussed his role as the most prominent Jewish Republican in Congress, his work as a lawmaker.
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Stormfront was no longer available online after its host put a hold on the neo-Nazi and white supremacist website.
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Stephen Bannon will speak at the Zionist Organization of America dinner in November in his first scheduled public appearance since he was fired.
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Dozens of Jewish families in Houston were either evacuated or moved to the second floors of their homes due to flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey.
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At least five people are reported dead in Houston as rain and winds from Hurricane Harvey hit the city, causing massive flooding.
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Gary Cohn, a prominent Jewish member of President Trump’s administration, considered resigning over Trump’s response to Charlottesville.
Watching President Donald Trump equivocate during his criticism of the recent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville many liberal Jews saw a new low.
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President Donald Trump retweeted a meme of himself “eclipsing” Barack Obama that was posted originally by a Twitter user who had made an anti-Semitic post.
