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Women’s March Flies Into Damage Control Over Farrakhan Ties

Two Women's March leaders have close ties to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, a notorious anti-Semite Women's March issued a statement in an attempt to play damage control, following a backlash The statement included neither an apology nor a disavowal of Farrakhan, which sparked further

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Report shows disturbing rise in anti-Semitic activity on campus

With the start of the new academic term now just weeks away, there's at least one controversy that is certain to roil American college campuses again this fall: anti-Israel activism and anti-Semitism on campus. On the heels of a 2015-2016 school year in which campus activists sought to

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Paving the way for women in science: Nobel Laureate Gertrude Elion

Gertrude Elion (1918-1999) received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1988, one of the few women to receive the honor. Her pioneering work included the first chemotherapy drug for childhood leukemia; laying the groundwork for the AZT drug for AIDS; and creating both the first successful anti-viral medication and the

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Harvard Law student’s anti-Semitic remark sparks uproar

CAMBRIDGE – A Harvard Law School student, who mocked a former Israeli foreign minister with what has been denounced as an anti-Semitic remark during a question-and-answer session after a school forum last week, believes the matter has been "blown out of proportion," a person close to the situation said

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Moulton raises a storm with Trump, Hitler comments

BOSTON – Seth Moulton, the first-term congressman from the North Shore, dropped a bombshell Wednesday, comparing Donald Trump's rise to Adolf Hitler's early days as a politician during the Weimar Republic era in Germany. "When you're in politics, one of those sort-of like cardinal

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Teen attacks French-Jewish teacher with machete

MARSEILLE, FRANCE – A Jewish man was attacked with a machete by a teenager in Marseille, France, on Monday in an apparent anti-Semitic incident. The attack occurred just after 9 a.m. The victim, who could be identified as Jewish because he was wearing a yarmulke, is a school teacher who

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Being Jewish at Vassar College

"Vile at Vassar," exclaims an editorial in the New York Daily News. "Anti-Semitic Times at Vassar," notes a Vassar graduate at the Daily Kos. "Anti-Israel Jews and the Vassar Blues," pens an op-ed writer in the Wall Street Journal. Jonathan Marks in Commentary magazine