Philissa Cramer
By Philissa Cramer
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Fast Forward Spike Lee, Kyrie Irving wear pro-Palestinian outfits to NBA All-Star Game featuring first Israeli player
Deni Avdija’s performance has swelled pride among Israelis
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Fast Forward French, German, Jewish leaders call for resignation of UN’s Francesca Albanese over ‘common enemy’ comments
Albanese is a prominent critic of Israel who has rejected allegations of antisemitism
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Fast Forward Map of Israeli targets goes up in Tehran as tensions simmer ahead of Netanyahu’s White House visit
Trump’s envoys met with Iran’s foreign minister on Friday; both sides praised the talks
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Fast Forward Steven Spielberg wins Grammy, becoming 9th Jew in elite EGOT ranks
Spielberg won for producing “Music by John Williams,” which won best music documentary
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Fast Forward Netanyahu alleges that Israeli soldiers died because Biden-era arms ‘embargo’ meant they ‘didn’t have enough ammunition’
Biden administration officials and the Israeli opposition pushed back against the claim
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Fast Forward Jewish world marks first day with no hostages in Gaza by shedding their symbols of support
Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin said they were taking off their famous masking tape
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Fast Forward Columbia selects Jennifer Mnookin, Jewish U of Wisconsin chancellor, as its next leader
Mnookin, a legal scholar, escalated her family’s Jewish engagement when she asked to have a bat mitzvah
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Fast Forward Tim Walz invokes Anne Frank in pressing Trump to end ICE operations in Minnesota
“Somebody is going to write that children’s story about Minnesota,” Walz said.
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