August 2015
- Columbia University student workers union drops Israel divestment demandThe student workers’ union at Columbia University has withdrawn its demand that the university divest from Israel — a significant reversal for the group, which has played a leading role in the campus’s pro-Palestinian movement since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. Divestment had been one of the union’s signature demands, and a recurring point... […]
- A Yiddish theater troupe condemned U.S. racism — then the Nazis cameIn 1935, the experimental theater group Yung Teatr invited audiences in Warsaw to a new play that was virtually all in Yiddish but wasn’t about Europe or Jews. It was a modified retelling of the plight of the Scottsboro Boys, nine Black teenagers who were falsely accused of raping two white women in Tennessee in... […]