This is the Forward’s coverage of campus issues affecting Jewish students at colleges and universities across the U.S.
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Fast Forward Brandeis extends transfer deadline, appealing to Jewish students distressed by campus anti-Israel unrest
President Ron Liebowitz announced the extension as encampment protests spread from Columbia University to other schools
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Opinion Protesters at Columbia are fighting for our deepest values as Jews
The confluence of the outbreak of new protests with Passover is a reminder of what it means to fight for what's right
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News The great tent conspiracy theory: Are ‘outside agitators’ supplying protesters’ tents?
NYC mayor thinks something’s not kosher with those tents. Others say, ‘You never heard of Amazon?’
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Fast Forward Netanyahu decries ‘antisemitic mobs’ at Columbia as university negotiates with student protesters
The protesters say they won't leave the university's central lawn until it divests from companies that work with Israel's military
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Opinion Yes, antisemitism is rising. But pro-Palestinian protests aren’t the real threat to our campuses
University administrations are complicit in a political movement that's making students feel more insecure
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News ‘A culture of harassment’: Hillel’s CEO sees trouble for Jews in new spate of campus clashes
Adam Lehman on whether it's right to call police in to arrest students, and how cautious Jewish families should really be around campus life
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Fast Forward Columbia protests: Israeli professor barred from campus and Congress members demand action to protect Jewish students
Columbia deactivates Shai Davidai’s campus entry card ahead of a planned sit-in at the protest encampment that has thrown the university into turmoil
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Fast Forward Inspired by Columbia example, pro-Palestinian encampments spring up at colleges nationwide
Pro-Palestinian activists are cheering the encampments, while Jewish campus groups are calling for action to stop them
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
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News Protesters picket Manhattan synagogue over Israel real estate sale, testing Mamdani and new law
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Opinion I’m an Orthodox student in NYC. I’m grateful Mamdani vetoed the school buffer bill
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Opinion I discovered anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I’m glad it lives on there
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Opinion An alarming new battleground in campus fights over Israel
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Looking Forward My artist grandmother nearly made aliyah. I don’t know what she’d think of Israel today
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Holy Ground A Jewish farmer broke ground on a synagogue in an Illinois cornfield. His neighbors showed up to help.