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With pride and precautions, communities ready for Hanukkah – eJewish Philanthropy

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With pride and precautions, communities ready for Hanukkah – eJewish Philanthropy

Israeli teenager Mia Leimberg, who was released by Hamas last week after nearly two months in captivity, was interviewed by Reuters yesterday and described her time as a hostage alongside her mother, Gabriela, and smuggling her dog, Bella, in with her to Gaza. “She was a huge help to me. She kept me busy. She was moral support,” Mia said…

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro condemned the president of the University of Pennsylvania, Liz Magill, for failing to “speak and act with moral clarity” in Congress this week when she — and the presidents of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — refused to state that calls for genocide violated their school’s codes of conduct…

Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have also criticized the administrators…

The Associated Press spotlighted Hanukkah preparations in South Florida amid rising antisemitism and the war in Israel…

Carmiel Arbit and Dan Granot from the Anti-Defamation League were ranked as some of the top lobbyists of 2023 by The Hill

The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Phoenix hired Amanda Garcia to fill the newly created position of associate director last month… 

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown reinstated a member of the state’s hate crimes task force, who had been suspended over controversial social media posts that downplayed the Oct. 7 atrocities, after it was determined that the law that created the task force did not give him the legal right to remove members. One of the co-sponsors of the legislation that created the body has pledged to sponsor a new bill to grant Brown that power…

The Senate’s supplemental aid bill for Israel and other U.S. allies will include an unprecedented $1 billion in additional funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program, after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) first proposed the allocation last month…

A group of students at the Columbia University School of Social Work held a “teach-in” at the school yesterday, in which participants described Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacres as a “great feat,” despite the university saying the event would be canceled…

The Hamilton (Ontario) Jewish Federation cut ties with a local movie theater, which normally hosts its Jewish Film Festival, after it agreed to screen the controversial, anti-Zionist film “Israelism”…

The number of “exits” by Israeli tech firms — mergers and acquisitions or initial public offerings — dropped to the lowest level in a decade this year, apparently due to the political instability in Israel and the ongoing war with Hamas…

Manischewitz is teaming up with the Jewish genetic disease testing nonprofit JScreen in a new campaign aimed at college campuses to raise awareness about the importance of genetic testing before having children…

In The Chronicle of Philanthropy, columnist Craig Kennedy ponders if concerns that money from donor-advised funds are going to terror groups like Hamas may spur Congress to more closely regulate these accounts…

American screenwriter and film producer Norman Lear, who produced, wrote, created or developed over 100 shows, died at 101…

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