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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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Opinion The dangerous Nazi legend behind Trump’s ruthless grab for power
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Culture Trump wants to honor Hannah Arendt in a ‘Garden of American Heroes.’ Is this a joke?
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Opinion A Holocaust perpetrator was just celebrated on US soil. I think I know why no one objected.
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Culture Did this Jewish literary titan have the right idea about Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling after all?
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Culture I have seen the future of America — in a pastrami sandwich in Queens
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Culture Trump wants to honor Hannah Arendt in a ‘Garden of American Heroes.’ Is this a joke?
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Opinion Gaza and Trump have left the Jewish community at war with itself — and me with a bad case of alienation
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Fast Forward Trump administration restores student visas, but impact on pro-Palestinian protesters is unclear
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