Andrew Lapin

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  Jewish lawmaker who shared stage with Jerry Seinfeld condemns his ‘Free Palestine’-KKK comparison

  “Just say you don’t like Jews,” the Jewish comedian said at a Duke University event with Omer Shem Tov, a freed Israeli hostage

  By Andrew Lapin Sep 11, 2025 | 3 min read
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  Emma Stone, Jonathan Glazer join growing list of Hollywood figures boycotting Israeli film institutions

  Israeli film industry leaders say the ban is counterproductive and targets “precisely those who are committed to fostering dialogue"

  By Andrew Lapin Sep 10, 2025 | 2 min read
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  University of Oregon cuts spare Judaic studies faculty who had raised alarm

  After dire warnings, the university says no tenured faculty will lose their jobs

  By Andrew Lapin Sep 9, 2025 | 2 min read
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  Gael Garcia Bernal, Ilana Glazer, Ayo Edebiri among Hollywood A-listers pledging to boycott Israeli film institutions

  The Film Workers for Palestine campaign names several major Israeli festivals as among the targets

  By Andrew Lapin Sep 8, 2025 | 2 min read
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  Jewish Studies faculty at U of Oregon rally to protect their jobs from feared budget cuts

  Scholars in Jewish, Holocaust and Israel studies worry they could fall victim to a larger slashing of the humanities

  By Andrew Lapin Sep 4, 2025 | 6 min read
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  World Zionist Congress lifts ban on Betar USA head, permitting him to serve as a delegate

  Ronn Torossian had been barred from the fall congress for 'hateful tone' after feuding with Shai Davidai

  By Andrew Lapin Aug 22, 2025 | 5 min read
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  Detroit’s archbishop, outspoken on Gaza, toured a Holocaust center. Was it a step forward for Jewish allyship?

  Archbishop Edward Weisenburger told reporters it would be a “betrayal” of the museum to “ignore the suffering” in Gaza

  By Andrew Lapin Aug 20, 2025 | 5 min read
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  E.J. Antoni, Trump’s new favorite economist, thinks a Nazi warship is ‘hard not to love’

  The president’s nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics is a professed fan of the Bismarck

  By Andrew Lapin Aug 14, 2025 | 4 min read