Shira Li Bartov
By Shira Li Bartov
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Fast Forward Father of former Israeli hostage joins Columbia as a Jewish history professor
Jonathan Dekel-Chen’s appointment follows an antisemitism task force’s call for Columbia to hire more faculty who are not anti-Zionist
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Fast Forward Her ancestors were expelled from Spain. Now she’s bringing bagels to Madrid.
Tamara Cohen found pieces of her Sephardic history in Madrid, but she also found a bagel desert
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Fast Forward British Jews could be offered asylum in the US, Trump’s UK-born Jewish lawyer says
British and Israeli Jewish officials responded dismissively to Robert Garson’s disclosure
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Fast Forward Circumcision could be ‘child abuse’ if done wrong, UK prosecutors warn after deaths
The warning has triggered debate among Jews over the appropriate level of regulation
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Fast Forward Democrats compare ICE with the Gestapo as they push to curb agency’s power
Holocaust comparisons in politics were long treated as taboo by American Jews, but the Trump era has shifted that paradigm
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Fast Forward Venezuela’s acting leader says ‘Zionist undertones’ marked U.S. capture of Maduro
The accusation drew on years of anti-Israel rhetoric from Caracas
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News Warsaw Jewish cemetery director fired amid clash over who controls the preservation of Poland’s Jewish past
Around 200,000 Jews are buried at the cemetery in Poland’s capital
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Fast Forward Brown University students light first Hanukkah candle in the shadow of mass shooting
Police have not identified a suspect in the shooting, which took place in a Jewish professor’s class
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