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In Washington Trip, Gantz to Urge U.S. to Pressure a Newly Vulnerable Iran

On the eve of his departure to the U.S. capital, the Israeli defense minister said Tehran is only weeks away from accumulating enough material to make a nuclear bomb

Two Wins and One Stinging Loss for AIPAC in Tuesday Democratic Primaries

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Buffalo Massacre: Rep. Liz Cheney Blames GOP Leadership for Enabling Antisemitism

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A member of the FBI looking at bullet holes through the glass at the scene of a shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, yesterday.

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From left: Democratic Republic of Congo's then-President Joseph Kabila; then-Mossad Director Yossi Cohen; and Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi.

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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington, this month.

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The Ukrainian national flag seen through the window of an apartment destroyed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine in the town of Borodianka, near Kyiv, last week

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An attendee wears a Kach flag at a memorial rally for Rabbi Meir David Kahane beside a booth of merchandise, in Jerusalem in 2011.

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Police officers secure the scene after the shooting at TOPS supermarket in Buffalo, New York, on Sunday.

Buffalo Mass Shooter Was Motivated by Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories

Buffalo Police respond to a shooting at Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, N.Y., on Saturday.

At Least 10 Killed in Racially Motivated Mass Shooting at Buffalo Supermarket

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Karine Jean-Pierre speaking after being introduced as President Joe Biden's next White House press secretary, at the White House last week.

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Shireen Abu Akleh reporting from Jerusalem.

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Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg war crimes prosecutor, was also member of the Jewish Claims Commission that signed a reparations deal with Germany in this 1952 photo.

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Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem in 2017.

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A demonstrator holds up a coat hanger, a symbol of the reproductive rights movement, with a sign reading "Never Again" as pro-choice protesters gather to defend abortion rights in San Francisco

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Members of Women of the Wall at a Rosh Hodesh ceremony at the Western Wall last November.

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Morgan Ortagus, left, with Ivanka Trump in Washington, in 2019. A Tennessee state senator said only fellow Jews Ivanka and Jared Kushner would mind that Ortagus was disqualified from a ballot.

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Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, left and Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, center, in a conversation moderated by author Abigail Pogrebin at Manhattan's Central Synagogue on May 3.

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U.S. First lady Jill Biden receives flowers from Ukraine President wife Olena Zelenska during an unannounced visit to Ukraine, on Sunday.

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Demonstrators holding signs outside the Supreme Court as they protest the possible overturn of Roe v. Wade, in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.

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Pro-choice and anti-abortion activists demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on Tuesday.

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Thousands of Haredim in Israel. Nearly 1 in 4 Jews will be ultra-Orthodox by 2040, a new survey concludes

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Honduras former President Juan Orlando Hernandez boards a plane of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for his extradition to the United States, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, last month.

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Speaker Pelosi meets Zelenskyy in Kyiv

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