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      <title>Photographing Lower East Side convinced Bill Aron to focus on Jewish subjects</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The 84-year-old told JNS, on a tour of his American Jewish Historical Society retrospective, that wanted to document “Jews who didn’t look like Jews.”]]></description>
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      <title>Punchline shows Chappelle ‘so far off the deep end’ with anti-Israel hate, critics say</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“I don’t think it’s particularly brave to rip into Israel,” Eli Lebowicz, a stand-up comedian in New York City, told JNS. “It’s more brave to defend Israel.”]]></description>
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      <title>To refer to ‘deep state,’ Israel’s official Hebrew-language authority coined ‘shadow state’</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Academy of the Hebrew Language “determines the need for new Hebrew words through both professional demand and public inquiry,” its academic secretary told JNS.]]></description>
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      <title>Kosher consumers increasingly drawn to natural, ‘orange’ wines, industry insiders say</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“There’s been a demonization of alcohol in the past three to five years, and I think some people don’t want to stop drinking but want to have a bit of a conscience,” Philippe Dallacorte, who owns a kosher wine store, told JNS.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:06:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>‘We make babka,’ says NYC bakery, accused by some staff of supporting Gaza ‘genocide’</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“We find it troubling that divisive political issues are being introduced into our workplace,” a Breads Bakery spokesman told JNS.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:21:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Austinite rabbi brings view on ‘broad’ Jewish needs to JCC umbrella group</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Daniel Septimus, who will lead the JCC Association’s new Center for Jewish Peoplehood, plans to live in Texas and to travel often to New York and the rest of the country.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 16:10:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Jelly still king, as bakeries in New York experiment with Chanukah doughnuts</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“Nothing has ever surpassed the traditional jelly in terms of demand and nostalgia,” Rafael Hasid, co-owner of Miriam, told JNS.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:30:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mixed reactions, as NYC plans Holocaust memorial in Queens</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“The problem is that the Holocaust is not the trump card in dealing with antisemitism,” Edward Rothstein, a “Wall Street Journal” critic, told JNS.]]></description>
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      <title>Menorahs from early days of Israel’s Bezalel School at center of Christie’s sale of 35 Chanukah lamps</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The works come from the Judaica collection of lawyer and art patron Max N. Berry, who has been a board member at many major U.S. museums.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:35:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Amid fears from many NY Jews, 2,761-person Shabbat meal sets Guinness record</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“It wasn’t just a celebratory dinner,” Rabbi Joshua Davidson, of Temple Emanu-El, told JNS. “It became an important demonstration of Jewish pride.”]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:27:17 GMT</pubDate>
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