OUR LEAD STORY

Megachurch shooter’s mother-in-law says shooting had ‘nothing to do with Judaism’

By Beth Harpaz

• Police: Jewish man struck with baseball bat in Staten Island by assailant who called him ‘dirty Jew’

• Rabbi Jules Harlow, editor of the prayer book used in Conservative synagogues for a quarter century, dies at 92

• Megachurch shooter’s mother-in-law says shooting had ‘nothing to do with Judaism’

• Robert Chazan, NYU scholar of medieval Jewry who helped build field of Jewish studies, dies at 87

Netanyahu’s plan for endless war must force a reckoning for American Jews

By Rob Eshman

When Judaism didn’t offer rituals for a stillbirth, a grieving couple created their own

By Jackie Hajdenberg

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