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Pro-Palestinian encampments are closing after making deals with colleges. Some of their critics are still upset.

Reporter’s notebook: Covering Israel’s war-torn north is an exercise in dodging danger

ISRAEL

Brown University board to vote on Israel divestment following agreement with protesters

How one public official made Palm Beach County the largest holder of Israel bonds

Biden to deliver speech at US Holocaust museum ceremony on Yom HaShoah as campus protests roil nation

Jewish novelist Paul Auster, bard of Brooklyn, dies at 77

White House condemns student takeover of Columbia U building and protesters’ use of ‘intifada’

IDEAS

I’m a Jewish linguist, and unlike some in Congress, I think ‘Ashkenormativity’ is a perfectly fine word

I don’t want to attend college in a safe Jewish ‘bubble’

I’m not letting pro-Palestinian protesters decide my choice of college

Police raid Columbia U building occupied by anti-Israel protesters, arresting dozens

Citing antisemitism, House Republicans take aim at universities’ funding, tax exemptions and visas

A German soldier looted postcards from doomed Jews in Poland. 80 years later, his granddaughter brought them back.

Northwestern students agree to dismantle anti-Israel encampment, as Columbia protesters take over university building

Columbia says it ‘will not divest from Israel,’ moves to close encampment following failed negotiations

For teens in interfaith families, the war in Gaza can be a stress test of their Jewish identities

Jerome Rothenberg, Bronx-born poet whose ‘ethnopoetics’ inspired scholars and rock stars, dies at 92

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