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Fast Forward 500 California Alumni Blast Campus Anti-Semitism
More than 500 alumni of the University of California called on the system’s president and Board of Regents to address the “rising tide of anti-Jewish bigotry at the UC.” The alumni wrote in the open letter published Wednesday in the Daily Bruin, the student newspaper of the University of California, Los Angeles, that they are…
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Fast Forward Robert Wistrich, Scholar of Anti-Semitism, Dies at 70
Robert Wistrich, a leading scholar of anti-Semitism and its history, has died. Wistrich, the Neuburger Professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the head of the University’s Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism, died of a heart attack on Tuesday evening in Rome at the age…
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Opinion It’s Not About Leaving France — Our Question Is How To Stay
“Is there a future for Jews in France?” I might just as well have poured a Dr Pepper into the wine glass of Nicolas Weill. The cultural and literary journalist for Le Monde looked at me from across our corner table in a small restaurant specializing in provincial fare. “This sort of question is an…
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The Schmooze 5 Things We Learned From Natalie Portman’s Hollywood Reporter Interview
Natalie Portman, queen of the Jews, is on the of the Hollywood Reporter. From the start, the 33-year-old Israeli-born actress warned reporter Stephen Galloway that she was going to be blunt. And blunt she was. The Dior spokeswoman dished on everything from John Galliano to what she thinks of the recent Israeli elections, to living…
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Opinion Francois Hollande Explains The Holocaust to Teenagers — Awkwardly
What started out as an unusual debate on primetime television between French president Francois Hollande and five teenagers about to vote for the first time, took an even stranger turn when they argued for several minutes whether or not it’s OK to laugh at the Holocaust. The round-table discussion took place Sunday, during the and…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitism Watchdogs Rap Northwestern’s President over Handling of Swastikas
(JTA) — A group of 23 anti-Semitism watchdog groups called on Northwestern University’s president to take additional steps to combat anti-Semitism on campus following swastika incidents. In a letter to Morton Schapiro, the groups said that they were concerned about a letter Schapiro sent to the campus community after two swastikas were found last week…
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Fast Forward France Pledges $107M to Anti-Semitism Fight
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls pledged to finance a $107 million plan to fight racism and anti-Semitism. The recent increase in prejudice in France is “insufferable,” he said at a press conference Friday in which he announced the plan. “Racism, anti-Semitism, hatred of Muslims, of foreigners and homophobia are growing in an insufferable manner in…
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Opinion England’s Green Party Has an Anti-Semitism Problem
Getty Images At a forum with voters in February, Green Party leader Natalie Bennett was asked what she would do to ensure that Jews feel safe in Britain. Bennett rambled on vaguely about funding inter-communal dialogue without even mentioning Jews, indicating that the problem of anti-Semitism was one she had never thought about before. The…
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