Tel Aviv’s ‘Hostage Square’ is coming to Chicago for the DNC — with or without a permit
The installation will feature 10-foot-tall milk cartons with the faces of the eight Americans still captive in Gaza
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Columbia University President Minouche Shafik resigns after year marked by pro-Palestinian protests
Faculty issued a vote of no confidence in Shafik in May
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France suspends Olympic runner for anti-Israel posts, including one wishing the ‘most terrible and horrible degree of hell’ for Zionists
Muhammad Abdallah Kounta shared a post during the Israel-Hamas war asking Allah to “strike the Zionists"
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Tim Walz says he has no personal relationship with imam who shared pro-Hitler video
“The politics of ‘gotcha’ are just unfortunate,” said a Minnesota rabbi and Democratic organizer. “People meet with lots of people, and I think that we need to really look at results and actions"
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UCLA can’t let protesters block Jewish students’ access to campus, judge rules
The injunction was a significant step in legal proceedings over post-Oct. 7 campus encampments
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Hundreds in Israel mourn American ‘lone soldier’ Jordan Cooper who died after allergic reaction
Cooper, a Pennsylvanian who moved to Israel in 2018, had returned after Oct. 7 and served 200 days in the reserves
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Sen. Chuck Schumer to release book warning about antisemitism in the United States
“Jewish Americans never thought it could happen here in America,” Schumer said. “Now, for the first time, they’re worried it could"
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Ilhan Omar, fierce critic of Israel in Congress, easily wins primary after 2 stinging defeats for progressive ‘Squad’
Don Samuels came close to unseating Omar two years ago. This time, the margin was wider
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Columbia restricts access to campus following ‘reports of potential disruptions’
The Manhattan campus was epicenter of the pro-Palestinian student protest movement last year; the restrictions are a sign that the university is girding more demonstrations in the fall
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Prominent German cantor and opera singer is killed in what police say was a family dispute
A German news site said a son is being held after the death of Nikola David, 55, who had been cantor for Munich’s liberal Congregation Beth Shalom since 2014
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Queenie Hallegua, second-to-last Jewish resident of historic Indian Jewish community, dies at 89
Hallegua and her late husband were the caretakers of Kochi’s 450-year-old synagogue
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