Andrew Lapin
By Andrew Lapin
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News A century-old Zionist group is being rebooted with a new motto: ‘Jews fight back’
Betar US is going after pro-Palestinian activists — and also pro-Israel advocates whose tactics it deems overly timid
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News Strong resolve, weakened means: Jews try to keep focus on immigration and refugees under Trump 2.0
HIAS, Jewish Family Services, synagogues and activist groups share how they’re dealing with the new administration
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Fast Forward Trump directs Health and Human Services to investigate medical schools for antisemitism
Medical schools at Harvard, Columbia, Brown and Johns Hopkins are being investigated for pro-Palestinian commencement activities
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Fast Forward Trump administration opens antisemitism investigations at 5 universities, including Columbia and Berkeley
The Department of Education is joining at least two other federal departments, Justice and Health and Human Services, to form a new antisemitism task force under Trump
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Fast Forward South Carolina’s Holocaust council is divided after chair cuts rabbi’s ‘political’ remarks from Auschwitz memorial broadcast
The speech, cut from TV airings of the event, had sought to tie the Holocaust to refugee and LGBTQ issues
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Fast Forward A South Carolina rabbi’s Holocaust memorial speech was pulled from public TV for being too ‘political’
Rabbi Sam Rose had used his speech to inveigh against refugee, LGBTQ and book-ban policies
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Fast Forward Church kicks out priest who mimicked Elon Musk’s Nazi-like salute
Father Calvin Robinson borrowed Musk’s hand gesture and phrasing, to cheers from the audience
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Fast Forward Combative Jewish lawmaker Randy Fine, a Trump favorite, wins Florida GOP House primary
Fine, who is expected to win election easily, courted controversy for tweeting what observers said was a threat against Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar
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News No Jews allowed: White supremacists are building a segregated community in Arkansas, but is it legal?
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Opinion Zohran Mamdani’s victory proves it: The ‘gotcha’ mode of fighting antisemitism has to go
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News What a Mayor Mamdani would mean for New York Jews
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Opinion Mamdani’s victory is an opportunity for Jews to relearn the art of disagreement
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News Curtis Sliwa has a plan to beat Zohran Mamdani in NYC mayor’s race — and it starts with apologizing to Jews
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Fast Forward Eric S. Goldstein to step down as CEO of UJA-Federation of New York
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Fast Forward Kirsten Gillibrand apologizes to Zohran Mamdani over “global jihad” remark
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Fast Forward Trump administration accuses UN Palestinian rights envoy of ‘virulent antisemitism and support for terrorism’
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