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OUR LEAD STORY

Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War

By PJ Grisar

• Rabbi who left Harvard calls Trump threat ‘reasonable’ — but warns of looming consequences

• Secretive GOP firm distorts Democratic candidate’s views on Israel in NJ governor race

• Trump administration to review nearly $9 billion in Harvard funding over campus antisemitism

• Cornell pro-Palestinian student leader opts to leave US, as Columbia ‘self-deportee’ makes her case to return

I’m scared about antisemitism, but my friends just want to talk about the war

By Mira Fox

A Palestinian Oscar-winner’s arrest shocked the world. For these Jewish activists, it was terrifyingly normal

By Nora Berman

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