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Today: New life for an old klezmer album, and why Valentine’s Day can’t hold a candle to the Jewish holiday of love. 

A recent op-ed argued that trying to silence anti-Zionist protesters at universities is not good for students. The reality is more complex.

While the world honors the Holocaust, outrage over calls for the murder of Jews at the University of Michigan is mocked as evidence that Jews are “snowflakes.”

"Hatred and death threats, like beauty, may be in the eye of the beholder," one reader wrote, responding to a Forward column.

After a power outage hit Cheder of the Bay Area on Wednesday morning, students at the Pleasanton religious school prayed by candlelight.

From the blog of Richard D. Zelin at The Times of Israel

Meet the Jew who popularized holiday lights, the grown-ups who love playing dreidel and the members of the tribe who sing in church choirs. Plus: Why do we eat Chinese food on Christmas?

Meet the Forward 125: American Jews who made headlines and history in each of the 125 years since the Forward was launched in 1897.

After leftists spent two months claiming outrage over groups vowing never to let Zionists speak on campus was overblown, the Department of Education is investigating.

Jews barred from Lufthansa flight get payback, concerns for polio outbreak in Hasidic enclave, pilgrim walks from Spain to Israel, and Walmart removes Messianic prayer shawls advertised as scarves.