Jane Kaufman
By Jane Kaufman
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Fast Forward Ohio State student president kills Israel divestment resolution after local Jewish groups mobilize against it
(JTA) — (Cleveland Jewish News via JTA) — The outgoing student body president at The Ohio State University nixed an Israel boycott resolution after intense opposition to it from local Jewish groups and state politicians. Jacob Chang declined to sign the resolution by the school’s student senate that called for the trustees to divest from two companies…
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Fast Forward An Ohio university’s Holocaust Studies center is in jeopardy. These people are rallying to save it.
(JTA) — (Cleveland Jewish News via JTA) – For the nearly 13,000 students at Ohio’s Youngstown State University, Jacob Ari Labendz is the face of Jewish studies. The history professor, who came to the school in 2017, heads the school’s Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies. This year, he’s teaching three of its six courses….
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News Another retailer removes ‘gas the Jews’ mug, other products
This article first appeared in Cleveland Jewish News. Reprinted with permission. A content creation platform that listed items with the words “Damnit! I said glass of juice not gas the Jews!” has removed the posting and notified the third-party vendor that the vendor’s access has been blocked. “Please note that our platform only produces physical…
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Fast Forward Amid zoning dispute, city hired private investigator to observe Cleveland-area shul during holidays
(Cleveland Jewish News via JTA) — An Ohio city hired a private investigator to observe Jews entering and exiting a local synagogue on the first day of Rosh Hashanah as evidence for an ongoing lawsuit, outraging Orthodox Jews there and further inflaming tensions in a local dispute over worship protocols. University Heights officials said the…
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