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Katherine Goldstein was shot and killed at a July Fourth parade. Her daughter, Cassie Goldstein, was with her when she died.

"I won’t let her murder make me a weaker person," Cassie said, speaking with our @noraeberman.

Here's the morning's news... 🧵

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@EladNehorai watched with dismay this week as news outlets described his hometown as an “affluent, mostly white suburb” — distancing the story of the Highland Park shooting from its Jewish and Latino communities.

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Rabbi Tamar Manasseh lives on Chicago’s South Side, where the mayhem she’s previously witnessed led her to launch an anti-gun violence nonprofit.

On Monday, she received texts from people asking for help in the city's northern suburbs.

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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated Friday while giving a speech, improved his country’s diplomatic and economic relations with Israel after decades of distance.

Interim Prime Minister Yair Lapid offered condolences:

https://twitter.com/yairlapid/status/1545344094272102402?s=20&t=CvBSPpzW8BbgteWivbZ99Q

The legendary “Godfather” actor James Caan, who died Wednesday at 82, got his start in westerns, but in later years reconnected with his Jewishness.

Read our tribute:

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Avi Zinger, 70, a small-town factory owner, bought the local license to the famed Ben & Jerry's ice cream brand from Unilever and plans on selling it in the occupied West Bank, against the will of original co-founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield.

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🇮🇱 Rabbi Baruch Lanner, convicted two decades ago of sexually assulating students at a New Jersey Jewish high school, has been granted residency status in Israel.

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🇵🇸 Defense Minister Benny Gantz met Thursday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the occupied West Bank to discuss security coordination ahead of President Joe Biden’s visit to the region next week.

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🇬🇧 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who announced his resignation on Thursday, had several memorable Jewish moments during his three years in office, including a broken menorah and speaking Yiddish on Passover.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine said it will not allow Jewish pilgrims into the country for Rosh Hashanah, a time when tens of thousands usually visit Rabbi Nachman of Breslov’s grave in Uman.

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🎨 Stephanie Clegg paid $90,000 at a Sotheby’s auction in 1994 for a painting by Marc Chagall. Now an expert panel in France says it’s a fake and wants to destroy it.

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👩‍⚖️ A U.S. appeals court on Thursday rejected a $95 million defamation lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen filed by Roy Moore, a former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, who said he was tricked into a television appearance.

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🥫 There could be a hummus shortage coming soon. Poor weather and the war in Ukraine have curtailed the supply of global chickpeas, which may dip 20% this year.

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📸 #PhotoOfTheDay — President Joe Biden presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Thursday to 17 Americans, including former U.S. Rep. @GabbyGiffords.

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