Philissa Cramer
By Philissa Cramer
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Fast Forward In Michigan, Boston and elsewhere, pro-Palestinian protesters assert themselves at college graduations
In all cases, the commencement ceremonies went on as scheduled
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Fast Forward Brandeis extends transfer deadline, appealing to Jewish students distressed by campus anti-Israel unrest
President Ron Liebowitz announced the extension as encampment protests spread from Columbia University to other schools
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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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