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What I am about to write, though, is really and truly intended for myself. It’s a personal feeling, and nothing more, but one I hope to honor now and always.

A mezuzah is a parchment inscribed with religious texts and attached in a small ornamental case to the doorpost of a Jewish house as a sign of faith. For the first time in U.S. history, a mezuzah has been placed on the residence of a nationally elected leader of our country, the vice president’s official home at the

Winnipeg Free Press Save to Read Later Trucks are lined up at the vaccination rest stop in Drayton, N.D. for Canadian truckers. (North Dakota Department of Health) More than 100 Manitoba truckers have taken advantage of a deal with North Dakota to get their COVID-19 vaccines at a one-of-a-kind rest stop just south of the border. Winnipeg Free Press More than 100 Manitoba truckers have taken advantage of a deal with North Dakota to get their COVID-19 vaccines at a one-of-a-kind rest stop just south of the border. North Dakota's Department of Health said 62 Manitobans were vaccinated on op...

Editor’s note: Authorities are investigating a hack that disrupted the MLK Shabbat sermon that the Rev. Raphael Warnock delivered on Friday night at a virtual service hosted by an Atlanta synagogue. In his speech, Warnock – the pastor at Dr. King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church and the newly elected United States Senator from Georgia – talked about the need for both the Black and Jewish communities to work together, to complete the unfinished work they started during the civil rights movement. He concluded his 25-minute remarks with an impassioned plea: “Regardless of your politics, will...

Can Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock Make History? The two candidates hope to be Georgia’s first Jewish senator and Black senator, respectively—a reckoning that has been decades in the making. Photographs by JESSE PRATT LÓPEZ for The New Republic Jon Ossoff arrives in Reverend Raphael Warnock's campaign bus at a rally in Conyers, Georgia, in early December. If you speak with people who have long known Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff—the Democratic candidates hoping to flip Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats in tightly contested runoff elections on January 5—you will hear them ...