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Two Ivy League presidents are stepping down. They leave different legacies on campus Israel speech and antisemitism.

Lawrence Bacow, at Harvard, and Lee Bollinger, at Columbia, will exit their posts in 2023.

Lawmakers launch bipartisan push for defense arrangement between Israel and Arab neighbors

Morocco, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, as well as countries that still have no relations with Israel, including Saudi Arabia and Iraq, could sign on. The goal: to deter Iran.

Fred Manasse, physicist, sculptor and voice for fellow Holocaust survivors, dies at 86

Manasse, who was rescued as a young child on a Kindertransport, went on to become a stalwart leader on behalf of Boston’s Holocaust survivors.

Doug Emhoff speaking to a Holocaust survivor on a screen

Doug Emhoff spoke to a Holocaust survivor — and his AI twin — at a cutting-edge exhibit in Los Angeles

What can ‘Disney adults’ teach us about religion? A lot, according to this professor.

Rep. Jamie Raskin and Rep. Elaine Luria.

5 Jewish questions about the Jan. 6 committee hearings, answered

A map of purported connections between Jewish groups.

Boston Jews say a pro-Palestinian group’s map of local ‘Zionist leaders and powerhouse NGOs’ is a guide to antisemitism

Tom Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ his first play to explore Jewish history, is coming to Broadway

Non-gendered language for calling Jews to the Torah gets Conservative movement approval

Chesa Boudin, Jewish prosecutor at fore of progressive wave, recalled in San Francisco

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