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Sen. Dianne Feinstein speaks to the media in Washington, D.C., Sept. 27, 2018. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images)
To Ford’s advocates, Feinstein is a hero who has drawn attention to a victim’s trauma and is holding a powerful abuser to account. Kavanaugh’s supporters see her as a villain weaponizing a deeply personal matter for partisan gain.
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro addresses a Stand Against Hate rally at Independence Mall in Philadelphia, March 2, 2017. (Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images)
Josh Shapiro, 45, has caused reverberations globally with the 900-page report on the Catholic Church. It has sparked calls for reform in the Pennsylvania church and beyond.
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Kesher Israel is a Modern Orthodox synagogue located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. (Wikimedia Commons)
The terms of the agreement, reached Aug. 27, state that Rabbi Freundel’s victims will receive a total settlement of $14.25 million.
Read MoreUntil the Mossad operation was revealed, the world had no inkling that Adolf Eichmann was living as a fugitive in Argentina.
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On the 100th anniversary of Hydrox in 2008, Kellogg’s briefly resumed distribution of the original sandwich cookie under the Sunshine label. (Wikimedia Commons)
Until a glorious day in 1998, Hydrox was the premiere kosher sandwich cookie on the market, while Oreos remained treyf, lacking a kosher heksher, or seal of approval.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appears on "Meet the Press," July 1, 2018. (William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC NewsWire via Getty Images)
While politics did frequently come up, none of the panelists — including Ocasio-Cortez, who has been critical of Israel — mentioned Jews or Israel.
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Jacob Wohl describes himself as a conservative, a Zionist and one of President Trump’s most loyal supporters. (Screenshot from YouTube)
He complained about children of immigrants who couldn’t speak English in his second-grade class. He insisted that Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States, has a socialist government. He equated the Palestinian Authority with ISIS.
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A Palestinian man walks by Israeli troops standing guard in the West Bank city of Hebron in 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90, via JTA)
All groups receive a lecture on geopolitics from an Israeli expert. Meeting Palestinians, and seeing Palestinian life, is not part of the itinerary.
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The kids at the St. Louis summer camp for refugee families pick up English quickly, staff members say. (Courtesy of St. Louis JCRC)
For the families of the children, the camps offer a dual benefit: structured time with other kids, and supervision that enables parents to work or study.
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Rabbi Dan Ain is taking a synagogue pulpit in San Francisco after a decade of creating Jewish programming outside of a synagogue space in New York City. (Courtesy of Ain)
About 15 years ago, a series of Jewish groups that began springing up thought the synagogue was not responding to their spiritual and ritual needs.
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Rabbi Mike Moskowitz just took a job at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, a New York City synagogue serving the LGBT community. Next to him is the synagogue’s senior rabbi, Sharon Kleinbaum. (Courtesy of CBST)
Mike Moskowitz, 38, says serving queer Jews is a fulfillment of his duty as an Orthodox rabbi, not a contradiction. To him, this job is simply the best way to help those in dire need.
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