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The call came a year after photos of Jewish children dressed in blackface during Purim drew widespread condemnation.

Extremist groups back nonsense conspiracy theories, such as accusing Jews of creating the virus to profit from the vaccine, or comparing anti-COVID restrictions to the Holocaust

Extremist groups back nonsense conspiracy theories, such as accusing Jews of creating the virus to profit from the vaccine, or comparing anti-COVID restrictions to the Holocaust

The US continues to transfix the world with its gun violence epidemic   As an Israeli, used to a young and dynamic political system, I’m sometimes at a disadvantage debating politics with Americans. Israel’s basic laws — its equivalent of the Constitution — are changed every other day. Alternative prime minister? Direct elections? Why not? We’ll change a basic law or two. In America, where the Constitution is a quasi-sacred document, things are not so simple. So if 200 years ago someone put in a few vague words about a “well-regulated militia” in the Second Amendment, that me...

It’s inauguration day, the day on which we enact the greatest ritual of American democracy: the transfer of power. Between the restrictions necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic and the substantially heightened security imposed following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration will be like none other before it. His predecessor, President Donald Trump, will not be in attendance, another break from the norm. And yet the core routines will persist, including the newly-inaugurated president’s first address to the country as Commander-in-Chief. We asked some of o...