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Jewish groups say they’re concerned that Students for Justice in Palestine may use the rally to glorify Hamas
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Columbia antisemitism task force reports ‘crushing’ discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students
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Michael Lerner, influential rabbi-activist and founder of Tikkun magazine, dies at 81
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Dadaon won a gold medal and set the Paralympic record in an event in which he also owns the world record
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The demonstrations at Temple University are part of a resurgence in campus protests as students return to school
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“A deal is not only the right thing to do to end this war but will unlock so much of what must happen next,” Harris said.
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College students are already protesting — and getting arrested — over Israel this semester
None of the four people arrested at the University of Michigan were students
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Berlin Holocaust memorial vandalized with antisemitic graffiti
The 1943 protest commemorated by the monument was led by non-Jewish women, most of them married to Jewish men who were detained in a building that had formerly functioned as the Jewish Welfare Administration
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Yasur’s gold is Israel’s 385th total medal in the Games, dating back to the inaugural Summer Paralympics in 1960
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