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Opening this week at Rome Community Theater in Rome, New York, "Letters to Sala" by Arlene Hutton is based on the true story of a young girls survival during wartime Germany.

Powerful alumni from elite institutions like Harvard and University of Pennsylvania have called on their schools to take a more pro-Israel position amid fighting in Gaza

Colleges across the country have screened the documentary Israelism, but it caused controversy at the University of Pennsylvania and Hunter College in New York. A documentary about two young Jewish Americans who question their loyalty to Israel after traveling to the country and the West Bank has become a flash point in the academic freedom debates consuming some college campuses amid the Israel-Hamas war.

The fact that a documentary by and about left-wing Jews is seen, on some campuses, as too insensitive to Israel to be shown publicly demonstrates what a confused moment this

If we don’t want escalating bigotry to enable escalating repression, we need to err on the side of speech.

University of Pennsylvania administrators told a student group it could lose funding and organizers could face consequences for screening "Israelism."

University of Pennsylvania administrators told a student group it could lose funding and organizers could face consequences for screening "Israelism."

Hunter College is receiving significant backlash after canceling the screening of a documentary film critical of Israel, a decision that faculty members and students say undermines academic freedom, the New York Times reported.

Israelism follows two young Jewish Americans whose perception of Israel changes once they see how the nation treats Palestinians.

After student organizations released statements backing attacks against Israeli citizens, critics called on university leaders to forcefully condemn them. Not all did. Pro-Palestinian student groups on many U.S. college campuses have drawn ire this week for their celebratory response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks against Israeli civilians, one of the deadliest acts of terrorism in the Jewish state’s history.