(JTA) — As Jews around the world read the haggadah at their seder tables every year, they encounter a passage instructing them to see themselves as if they were personally slaves in Egypt. This year, some of them will also have on their seder tables a symbol of the perseverance of women traumatized in captivity.... […]
(JTA) — When the question came, Columbia University’s president was ready. Her answer was “Yes.” Just minutes into a congressional hearing on campus antisemitism on Wednesday, Nemat Shafik had been asked, “Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Columbia’s code of conduct?” It was a knowing repeat of the now-infamous question that cost the... […]