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‘You can’t remember the precise moment when you understood that you were a Jew.’ Paul Auster in Granta 125: After the War.

As Passover ended Tuesday evening, many in Richmond’s Jewish community carried heavy hearts while observing the traditional feast, as they continue monitoring the fallout from the Israel-Hamas war.

To President Joseph E. Aoun, Senior Vice President Mike Armini, Chancellor Ken Henderson, Provost David Madigan, Senior Vice Chancellor Madeleine Estabrook, and the Northeastern University community: We, Northeastern Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, write to condemn the April 27 arrests of individuals who participated in a peaceful, orderly protest on Centennial Common. We...

As the pro-Palestine encampment on Deering Meadow enters its fifth day, the protest has spurred mixed responses from Northwestern’s more than 2,000 Jewish undergraduate and graduate students. Some students have critiqued the demonstration and called certain conduct taking place within it antisemitic and anti-Israel. But other Jewish community members have expressed support for the protest....

Daily staffers Samantha Powers, Jacob Wendler and Beatrice Villaflor discuss what they’ve seen in their reporting on the pro-Palestine encampment at Deering Meadow. [nat sound of student activists chanting] CARLOTTA ANGIOLILLO: On Thursday morning, about 50 student activists began setting up tents on Deering Meadow in an effort to pressure Northwestern to divest from companies...