As smoke filled the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center one year ago, Cantor Ruth Berman Harris searched for her husband through the darkness, calling out to make sure the Torahs were being carried out.

By night’s end, the building was destroyed, but all 13 Torahs were safe. 🧵

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As small-town synagogues vanish quietly across the Rust Belt, cattle farmer Nik Jakobs offers a different kind of eulogy; not just remembrance, but reinvention — as he transforms a 100 year old Pennsylvania synagogue into a new congregation in rural Illinois.

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Fox spoke to @jonlewis27.bsky.social, an extremism researcher at The George Washington University, about the memeification of the Sieg Heil and how right-wing figures are — and have been — using humor and irony to excuse racist or antisemitic statements.

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When Elon Musk threw up his hand in a speech on Trump’s inauguration day, a meme was born — and there have been at least three instances of public Sieg Heil salutes in the month since.

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When Elon Musk raised his arm in what many considered a Nazi salute during an inauguration rally for President Donald Trump, the moment became a Rorschach test for Jews.

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