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Artem Dolgopyat of Israel, poses after winning the gold medal after the floor exercise during the artistic gymnastics men's apparatus final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Olympian Dolgopyat arrives home to hero's welcome in Israel

By Laurie Kellman Aug. 03, 2021 07:31 AM EDT

Artem Dolgopyat of Israel, left, celebrates after winning the gold medal on the floor exercise during the artistic gymnastics men's apparatus final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Israel's Olympic gold victory raises Jewish identity debate

By Ilan Ben Zion Aug. 02, 2021 02:52 PM EDT

Leo Soto, who created this memorial with grocery stores donating flowers and candles, pauses in front of photos of some of the missing people that he put on a fence, near the site of an oceanfront condo building that partially collapsed in Surfside, Fla., Friday, June 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Victims in Miami condo collapse came from around the world

By Regina Garcia Cano, Roxana Hegeman And Jocelyn Gecker Jun. 26, 2021 01:05 AM EDT

A participant pauses in the annual Pride Parade, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, June 25, 2021. Thousands of people attended the parade Friday in one of the largest public gatherings held in Israel since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Tens of thousands attend Pride parade in Israel's Tel Aviv

By Ariel Schalit Jun. 25, 2021 06:09 AM EDT

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, center, chairs the first weekly cabinet meeting of the new government in Jerusalem, Sunday, June 20, 2021. Bennett opened his first Cabinet meeting on Sunday since swearing in his new coalition government with a condemnation of the newly elected Iranian president, whom he called “the hangman of Tehran.” (Emmanuel Dunand/Pool Photo via AP)

Israel launches official probe into deadly festival stampede

Jun. 20, 2021 08:30 AM EDT

Aranka Engel, 103, left, holds the hand of fellow Holocaust survivor Jean Kurz, 81, while watching Orthodox Jewish singer Yaakov Shwekey perform at a concert honoring them and dozens of other Holocaust survivors on Monday, June 14, 2021, at the Yeshivah of Flatbush theater at Joel Braverman High School in the Brooklyn borough of New York. It was the first large gathering for New York-area Holocaust survivors after more than a year of isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

NY Holocaust survivors celebrated at concert after isolation

By Luis Andres Henao Jun. 14, 2021 08:57 PM EDT

Torah ark desecrated inside Frankfurt Airport prayer room

Jun. 12, 2021 09:03 AM EDT
BERLIN (AP) — A leading Jewish group in Germany on Saturday condemned the antisemitic desecration of a Torah ark inside the Jewish prayer room at Frankfurt's...

Israeli left-wing protesters chant slogans and hold flags during a demonstration for the forming of a new government in the central Israeli city of Ramat Gan, Wednesday, June 2, 2021. Hebrew sign reads: "We are the hope". (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Netanyahu opponents reach coalition deal to oust Israeli PM

By Josef Federman Jun. 02, 2021 11:37 AM EDT

NYC candidate avoids jail for sparking riot over virus rules

May. 08, 2021 12:40 PM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City political candidate who led protests against coronavirus restrictions in Brooklyn last fall will avoid jail time after pleading...

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend the funeral of Yossi Kohn, 21, from Cleveland, Ohio, who died during Lag BaOmer celebrations at Mt. Meron in northern Israel, in Jerusalem, Sunday, May 2, 2021. A stampede at a religious festival attended by tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in northern Israel killed dozens of people and injured about 150 early Friday, medical officials said. It was one of the country's deadliest civilian disasters. (AP Photo/Oren Ben Hakoon)

Israeli watchdog to investigate deadly festival stampede

By Ilan Ben Zion May. 03, 2021 07:00 AM EDT

Rabbi Shai Cherry poses for a photograph at Congregation Adath Jeshurun in Elkins Park, Pa., Monday, April 26, 2021. Antisemites adopted a new tactic for spewing their hate when the COVID-19 pandemic closed synagogues and Jewish schools and community centers: Hijacking video conferences. On the morning of June 27, 2020, Rabbi Shai Cherry was leading a Shabbat service on Zoom for his congregation in a Philadelphia suburb when several guests with suspicious usernames began posting pornographic images and antisemitic messages like "Hitler should have finished the job." One of them posted Cherry's home address. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Report: Pandemic gives rise to antisemitic 'Zoom bombing'

By Michael Kunzelman Apr. 27, 2021 12:05 AM EDT

Missouri House passes bill for guns in churches, buses

By Summer Ballentine Apr. 20, 2021 03:58 PM EDT
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri's Republican-led House on Monday passed a bill that would allow guns in churches and on public transportation. ...

FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2019 file photo, Strasbourg chief Rabbi Harold Abraham Weill looks at vandalized tombs in the Jewish cemetery of Westhoffen, west of the city of Strasbourg, eastern France. Coronavirus lockdowns in 2020 shifted some anti-Semitic hatred online, where conspiracy theories blaming Jews for the pandemic’s medical and economic devastation abounded, Israeli researchers at Tel Aviv University's Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry in an annual report Wednesday, April 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)

Report: Pandemic amped up anti-Semitism, forced it online

By Laurie Kellman Apr. 07, 2021 04:02 AM EDT

Sense of hope accompanies Passover, Easter in New England

Apr. 04, 2021 11:40 AM EDT
BOSTON (AP) — The Easter and Passover holidays were accompanied Sunday by more relaxed restrictions on houses of worship and gatherings in New England, along...