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News Is a bill targeting support for terrorism a necessary tool after Oct. 7, or authoritarian overreach?
A bill’s sponsors say it is necessary to target groups supporting terrorists. Opponents say it will stifle speech.
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News Analysis: The risks and rewards of inviting Netanyahu to address Congress
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is determined to shift US public opinion about the war in Gaza
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Fast Forward ‘This is why you earned an F’: Stefanik grills Northwestern’s Jewish president over campus antisemitism
Michael Schill defended his deal with pro-Palestinian protests
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Fast Forward 60 Jewish groups, from left to right, back bill creating national coordinator to fight antisemitism
The signatories include organizations whose leaders have accused each other of enabling antisemitism
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Fast Forward AOC pushes New York bill to penalize charities backing Israeli settlements
Critics called the bill ‘purely antisemitic’
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Politics Could a Jewish voter surge threaten Jamaal Bowman’s reelection?
An Orthodox Jewish group said requests for mail-in ballots show that their effort to boost voter turnout in the Bowman-Latimer race has traction
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Fast Forward Congress grills K-12 school officials from New York, Berkeley and Maryland on responses to antisemitism
The hearing signaled the government’s growing interest in expanding antisemitism probes beyond colleges
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Opinion The GOP antisemitism bill harms more than it helps
The Antisemitism Awareness Act that passed the House this week handicaps our ability to fight anti-Jewish bigotry
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Fast Forward Jewish congresswoman storms out of Epstein hearing after Pam Bondi raises her record on antisemitism
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Culture What Carrie Prejean Boller tells us about Christian Zionism in the US
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Fast Forward Eli Sharabi’s ‘Hostage’ memoir named Jewish book of the year
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Fast Forward Andorra’s tiny Jewish community reels after local carnival features mock execution of Israeli effigy
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Fast Forward British woman who removed an Israeli hostage poster from a memorial site is convicted of theft
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Fast Forward American Jewish speedskater Emery Lehman wins silver in final Winter Olympics
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