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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
Two opposing letters are circulating among undergrads at the college, a bastion of Israel support
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Fast Forward This Jewish feminist has been the NYC’s sanitation department’s official artist for 50 years. A new movie tells her story.
Meet Mierle Laderman Ukeles, the daughter of a rabbi whose "maintenance art" has gotten the documentary treatment
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News Mamdani fails first political test in Manhattan race. Here’s why it matters to Jews
The defeat of a Mamdani-backed candidate strengthens the City Council’s effort to pass bill handling protests at schools
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Culture A New York Jewish childhood at the Dalton School where privilege met progressivism
Holly Cowan Shulman, who graduated from Dalton in 1961, remembers a fortunate life on the city's East Side
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Fast Forward Long Island father and teen son arrested after investigation into swastika drawn in school bathroom
Police found explosives at the home of a 15-year-old Syosset, New York, teen accused of drawing the graffiti
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News New York City’s top Jewish officials urge Mamdani to recognize Israel’s centrality to Jewish identity
Council Speaker Julie Menin warned that vetoing bills to protect houses of worship could signal Mamdani’s broader disconnect with Jewish constituents
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Fast Forward Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas says Zionists ‘talk like Black people during slavery’
Casablancas made the comment on the web series SubwayTakes, whose host Kareem Rahma said he agreed
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News Brad Lander joins call to end U.S. aid to Israel, in quest to replace Rep. Dan Goldman
Following AOC's lead, the Jewish New York Democrat says he now seeks to end Iron Dome defense funding, citing Israel’s war conduct
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