Beth Harpaz worked at the Forward as a reporter and now manages the Bintel Brief advice column. She previously covered politics and breaking news for The Associated Press. Email: harpaz@forward.com.
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By Beth Harpaz
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Fast Forward A Girl Scout troop skipped selling cookies to raise money for Palestinian kids — and got in trouble
Girl Scouts of the USA apologized after Muslim troop in St. Louis was threatened with legal action
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News ‘You can’t hide’: Jewish student leader targeted at University of California multicultural center
‘I do not feel safe on campus,’ says UC Santa Barbara student body president Tessa Veksler, daughter of Soviet refugees
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Culture Aaron Lansky, who rescued 1.5 million Yiddish books and founded the Yiddish Book Center, is retiring
He went looking for Yiddish books as a grad student. He ended up saving a whole world of literature, language and culture
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Fast Forward Palestinian novelist imprisoned for terrorism is shortlisted for prestigious literary award
Basim Khandaji’s ‘A Mask, the Colour of the Sky’ was shortlisted for an award known as the Arab world’s Booker Prize
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Fast Forward Why did the co-chair of Harvard’s antisemitism task force resign?
More chaos as business school professor Raffaella Sadun abruptly quits committee after 5 weeks
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Art Undeterred by protests over the war in Gaza, Christie’s is hosting a show of Israeli art
Exhibition of 70 artworks never before shown outside of Israel on view for a week at New York auction house
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Fast Forward Tiffany Haddish goes to Israel, visits Hostage Square and pledges to see Gaza
‘I’m going to go see with my own eyes,’ says the comedian, who learned that a 'lot of people were kidnapped'
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News Jewish TikTok creators use #ofcourse trend to talk about Oct. 7 and antisemitism
‘I’m Jewish. Of course if I were murdered or abducted, no one would say anything or care’
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