Philissa Cramer
By Philissa Cramer
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Fast Forward German Holocaust reparations increase again this year, but plateau expected as survivors perish
The rising tally is driven by health care costs, not direct payments to survivors
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Fast Forward Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood rejects calls to cancel tour with Israeli musician Dudu Tassa
'Silencing Israeli artists for being born Jewish in Israel doesn’t seem like any way to reach an understanding between the two sides of this apparently endless conflict,' Greenwood wrote
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Fast Forward Netanyahu, facing pressure from right, says ‘gaps’ remain in proposal to end war announced by Biden
An estimated 150,000 Israelis rallied in favor of the deal on Saturday night, but ministers key to the government say they oppose it
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Fast Forward Maldives says it will ban Israelis from visiting over Israel’s war in Gaza
The Israeli government is advising Israelis already in the island nation to leave
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News Claudia Sheinbaum elected president of Mexico, breaking barriers as woman and Jew
Sheinbaum’s election makes Mexico by far the biggest country to have a Jewish head of state
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Fast Forward Jewish liberal Claudia Sheinbaum likely to win this week’s Mexican presidential election, polls show
If Claudia Sheinbaum wins Mexico would become the largest country by far to have a head of state with a Jewish background
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Fast Forward Harvard says it will no longer take stances on many issues, 8 months after stoking tensions with Israel-Gaza statements
“Harvard isn’t a government. It shouldn’t have a foreign policy or a domestic policy,” said the co-chair of a task force that recommended the policy
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Culture New York klezmer legend Frank London is gearing up to fight for his life. But first, one more show.
London and his collaborators recorded new Jewish music on the eve of his admission to the hospital for cancer treatment
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Music In 1964, when he was just 23, Bob Dylan wrote the prophetic anthem that encapsulates Trump’s America
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Fast Forward Children in Israel and beyond are dressing as Batman for Purim to honor the slain Bibas brothers
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Theater She was teenage runaway, a German rock star and Berlin leading lady — now she’s playing Leonard Bernstein
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Yiddish דער טאַיִב טעאַטער — אַ סימבאָל פֿון ייִדישער קולטור און װידערשטאַנד אין סאַאָ פּאַולאָThe Taib Theater — a symbol of Yiddish culture and protest in Sao Paulo
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News The Bible could become law in West Virginia, but what would that mean?
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