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    <title>Rikki Zagelbaum</title>
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    <description>Rikki Zagelbaum is a writer in New York and managing editor at The Commentator, a Yeshiva University student paper.</description>
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      <title>If equally repressive regime takes over Islamic Republic, Iranian women will suffer in particular, Dinah Project says</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“I think that the rule that women always pay the price could sadly, unfortunately, materialize here as well,” the legal scholar Ruth Halperin-Kaddari told JNS.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>‘First time in a long time,’ NYC Council Jewish caucus talks needs, challenges with Jewish groups</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“We’re grateful that these organizations are so hardworking and have already demonstrated really positive results,” Eric Dinowitz told JNS.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:32:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>NY library exhibit shows how magic could help Jews succeed, reinvent selves</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Magic helped Jewish immigrant families find a “foothold and potentially become incredibly successful,” the exhibit curator told JNS.]]></description>
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      <title>‘I saw a lot of my friends get married, felt it was time for me,’ says Danielle Meyers, who has Down syndrome</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“I’m emotional, which is not a bad thing. But there was a time I thought, ‘What would happen if I got married?’ Then I met Danielle and thought she was the one,” Shlomo Meyers told JNS.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>New member of NY state Senate Jew-hatred panel aims to hold state officials accountable on safety</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“You need public safety operationally, but to change a culture or mindset isn’t something you do just with new rules or regulations,” Rob Rolison told JNS.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:18:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Daily biblical study good for ‘spiritual, educational needs,’ Jewish women say</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Some 22,000 women from 30 countries are completing a two-year cycle of daily biblical study called Nach Yomi.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Complex political, rabbinic questions surround Israeli bill calling for executing terrorists, experts say</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“It’s a very severe question, a very grave question,” Rabbi Daniel Feldman told JNS. “It has to be looked at very, very carefully. With an eye toward both justice and fairness and protecting the innocence of society overall.”]]></description>
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      <title>NYC Jews celebrate Chanukah publicly and ‘this year will be no different,’ NYPD head says</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“We saw the actual application of the globalization of intifada in Sydney,” Eric Adams, mayor of New York City, said of the terror attack during a Chanukah celebration in Australia.]]></description>
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      <title>‘A great honor,’ says Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, inaugural NYC Fire chief chaplain</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“We have what’s called a ‘theology of presence,’” he told JNS. “You can be the greatest preacher, but if you’re not there for people during those important moments, you haven’t fulfilled your responsibility.”]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 04:18:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>‘Smart political move’ for Trump to lift tariffs on Jewish religious products, expert says</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“Symbolically, it helps maintain good relations with the Jewish community and with Israel,” a former Federal Reserve Bank of New York vice president told JNS.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:03:49 GMT</pubDate>
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