Howie Silbiger
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Being Jewish Doesn’t End the Immigration Check
Israel has started reading past the line on an aliyah application that says the applicant is Jewish. Two young Jews who had already been approved by the Jewish Agency have now had their applications…
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They Thought They Would Come Back for It -The Treasure Erfurt’s Jews Never got to Claim
A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York is displaying several objects from a medieval Jewish treasure that was buried in the German city of Erfurt during the Black Death and remained…
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Sunkist Fruit Gems Are Coming Back!
Call off the alarm! Sunkist Fruit Gems are coming back! Sunkist Citrus says it has been working with a new family owned candy maker to revive the little sugar covered discs that have spent…
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Barbie: A Menorah, a Nose and 67 Years of Assimilation
Mattel has released its first official Chanukah Barbie, and almost immediately people started arguing about her nose. The doll is part of the company’s 2026 Holiday Sweater collection, with two Barbies dressed for Christmas…
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Mazel Tov, Now Duck: Sunkist Fruit Gems Are Gone
There are certain products that somehow become part of Jewish life without anybody ever deciding that they should be. Sunkist Fruit Gems were one of them. They were at bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs, aufrufs,…
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At Least This Time Germany Is Warning the Jews
Majdanek is one of the best preserved Nazi death camps in existence. Its barracks, gas chambers and crematorium are still there, and visitors have been told that the camp is so intact it could…
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It’s Time For Armed Guards At Synagogues
Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year got terrifying for nearly two dozen worshippers who had gathered for the Kol Nidre prayer at the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville, Ontario. As…
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Little Orphan Annie and the Politically Orphaned Jew.
Annie is coming back to Broadway in 2027, fifty years after it first opened there, which will undoubtedly mean another generation of children singing “Tomorrow,” another round of Daddy Warbucks bald caps and probably…
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Former Shin Bet Chief: October 7th Could Have Been Avoided
For almost three years, Israelis have been asking how Hamas managed to cross the Gaza border on October 7, 2023, murder approximately 1,200 people, take 251 hostages and overrun communities and military positions before…
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Loyola Gives Up Subsidies, Jewish Schools Struggle
Loyola High School has served Montreal’s Jesuit Catholic community for more than a century. Now it has decided that it would rather walk away from millions of dollars in Quebec government funding than change…