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| Jews Leave Afghanistan, Yemen |
| JTA | 2-minute read |
| The man known as the last Jew in Afghanistan for more than a decade has decided to join his wife and daughters in Israel, fearing that the U.S. military’s plans to withdraw from the country will put him at risk. His announcement came a week after the departure of some of the last remaining Jews in Yemen. READ MORE |
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| Lawmakers Propose Review of Palestinian Textbooks |
| The Jerusalem Post | 2-minute read |
| A bipartisan group of lawmakers proposed a bill this week that would task the State Department with reviewing the Palestinian Authority’s textbooks for content that incites violence and hatred toward other nations and ethnic groups. READ MORE |
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| University of Pennsylvania Refuses to Move Graduation |
| The Forward | 2-minute read |
| The University of Pennsylvania has refused to reschedule a 2022 commencement ceremony that falls on Shavuot, a Jewish holiday that celebrates the giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai, effectively barring observant Jewish students from participating. In more promising campus news, student senators at University of Notre Dame adopted the Working Definition of Antisemitism developed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. READ MORE |
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