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Burton Boxerman
Supporting and understanding LGBTQ+ youth through a Jewish lens
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Coffee Talk for May features Amy Fenster Brown and her sidekick Jordan Palmer   
Mayor Stephen Wright of Odessa, Missouri, said the towns trash collectors are not trying to Jew anybody during a meeting of the Board of Aldermen, May 15, 2023.
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Supporting and understanding LGBTQ+ youth through a Jewish lens
Supporting and understanding LGBTQ+ youth through a Jewish lens
Do you know any Unsung Heroes? Heres how to honor them
Do you know any Unsung Heroes? Here's how to honor them
Coffee Talk for May features Amy Fenster Brown and her sidekick Jordan Palmer   
Coffee Talk for May features Amy Fenster Brown and her sidekick Jordan Palmer   
Mayor Stephen Wright of Odessa, Missouri, said the towns trash collectors are not trying to Jew anybody during a meeting of the Board of Aldermen, May 15, 2023.
Mayor of Missouri town apologizes after saying trash collectors are ‘not trying to Jew anybody’
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Lag b’Omer celebrants lit traditional bonfires despite warnings by the fire department citing temperatures in the 90s and dryness. (Ben Sales)
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As author Martin Amis died, a movie of his Holocaust novel ‘Zone of Interest’ wowed at Cannes
Members of the All-American Girls Professonial Baseball League do calisthenics in Opa-Locka Florida, 1948. Credit: State Archives of Florida.
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Lishma program student Danyiel Brustmeyer in the study hall at the Conservative Yeshiva at the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center.
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Codex Sassoon (late ninth to early 10th century). Credit: Courtesy of Sothebys.
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Lag b’Omer celebrants lit traditional bonfires despite warnings by the fire department citing temperatures in the 90s and dryness. (Ben Sales)
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Martin Amis
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