Shira Li Bartov
By Shira Li Bartov
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Fast Forward Bard president Leon Botstein says Trump’s campaign against colleges follows ‘a classic antisemitic routine’
Botstein, born in 1946 in Europe to Holocaust survivors, has led the liberal arts college for 50 years.
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Fast Forward About 60% of Jews think they will be less safe under Mamdani and prefer other candidates, poll finds
The poll by commissioned by a group that campaigned against Mamdani in the primary
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Fast Forward Zohran Mamdani holds a wide edge among Jewish voters as he dominates in new NYC mayoral race poll
The poll found that 43% of Jewish voters said they would vote for Mamdani, compared to 26% for Andrew Cuomo
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Fast Forward Why Bard College’s orchestra performed Mendelssohn at the site of Hitler’s Nuremberg rallies
For conductor (and Bard’s president) Leon Botstein, the son of Holocaust survivors, the mission wasn’t only about the past
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Fast Forward Japan sees big wins for far-right, anti-immigration party that denounced ‘Jewish capital’
Sanseito’s leader, Sohei Kamiya, has denied being antisemitic
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Fast Forward Josh Shapiro accuses Zohran Mamdani of condoning ‘blatantly antisemitic’ supporters
Shapiro is one of the most prominent Jewish politicians in the United States
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Fast Forward Minneapolis’ Omar Fateh is the latest democratic socialist and Israel critic to win his party’s endorsement for mayor
Fateh’s nomination at a convention followed the primary win of Zohran Mamdani in New York City
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Fast Forward In a Polish town where locals burned Jews alive in 1941, new plaques deny complicity with Nazis
On the same day, a far-right lawmaker called the gas chambers in Auschwitz 'fake'
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