Philissa Cramer
By Philissa Cramer
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian demonstrator is removed from Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemoration in Poland
The protester, who unfurled a Palestinian flag, stood silently during the ceremony to mark the anniversary of the uprising against the Nazis
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News What to know as Columbia U president Nemat Shafik testifies to Congress about antisemitism on her campus
The hearing follows an explosive one in December that ultimately cost two Ivy League university presidents their jobs
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Fast Forward Guernica’s founder defends retracting Israeli coexistence essay that caused firestorm
Meanwhile, the editor who resigned over the retraction said she found the magazine’s long-promised explanation to be “dismissive"
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Fast Forward Germany to give Holocaust survivors in Israel an extra $238 each because of the war
About half of the world’s remaining Holocaust survivors live in Israel
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Culture 10 new haggadahs for Passover 2024
A range of haggadah supplements focused squarely on Oct. 7 have become available in recent weeks
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Fast Forward World Central Kitchen’s Jose Andres: ‘Israel is better than the way this war is being waged’
“You cannot win this war by starving an entire population,” the chef and humanitarian said in op-eds published in Israel and the New York Times
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Fast Forward Amsterdam, atoning role in delivering Jews to the Nazis, pledges 100,000€ and memorials at tram stops
Amsterdam's public transit agency "would now like to express its sincere and sincere regret,” the city said in a statement
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Fast Forward In Israel and beyond, Purim celebrations are tempered by trauma and thoughts of the hostages
Oznei Sinwar replaced Oznei Haman in some bakeries, and children dressed as soldiers and Oct. 7 heroes
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