Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of campus issues affecting Jewish students at colleges and universities across the U.S.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of campus issues affecting Jewish students at colleges and universities across the U.S.
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News After USC cancels graduation amid Israel protests, some Jewish students question their place on campus
“Our campus has become such a spotlight,” one student said. “It used to be a place where we learned and studied, and now it’s this hotbox of tension and news and all eyes are on us"
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News Israelis see antisemitism — and foreign interests — as fueling campus protests
'I feel safer here where I’m protected as a Jew,' American student in Israel says, despite living amid war
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Fast Forward Israeli opposition leader fears Israel will be blamed if Biden loses reelection
‘A lot of people in the Democratic Party are going to say it’s because of Israel, or at least this is going to be one of the claims,’ Yair Lapid said in a podcast interview
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Opinion This Passover, college campuses like mine are caught in a very narrow place
How remembering our enslavement and liberation can help us navigate out of it
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News ADL chief backs campus crackdowns. As a student, he stood up for free speech — even by antisemites
At Tufts in 1992, Jonathan Greenblatt urged students to engage with a Black nationalist who called Jews 'bloodsuckers'
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Opinion I was arrested protesting at Columbia in ’68. Today’s student encampments carry on a proud, brave tradition
Like the Vietnam War was nearly six decades ago, to many students, Israel's assault on Gaza feels deeply personal
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Fast Forward This rabbi is ‘horrified’ at how a song he wrote is being used at campus pro-Palestinian protests
Rabbi Menachem Creditor said he objects to ‘Olam Chesed Yibaneh’ used to protest Israel
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Fast Forward Threading a needle on free speech, Jewish leaders demand Columbia rein in pro-Palestinian protests
When "the debate that’s taking place results in the intimidation and harassment and silencing of one party, there is not free speech for everyone,” said Ted Deutch, head of the American Jewish Committee
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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Opinion Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
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Fast Forward Chabad rabbi killed in United Arab Emirates; Israel denounces ‘despicable antisemitic act’
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Fast Forward Rep. Ritchie Torres, outspoken pro-Israel advocate, is dropping hints that he could run for NY governor
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Fast Forward Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96
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Fast Forward A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years
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