Benyamin Cohen
Senior Writer at Forward
News Director, The Forward, @jdforward / Author, 'My Jesus Year' and ‘The Einstein Effect' / Manager of @alberteinstein
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6 days ago |
forward.com | Benyamin Cohen
CLAYTON, GEORGIA - On a blue-sky Thursday in the north Georgia mountains, Camp Ramah Darom's canoes rested and pickleballs sat idle as more than 200 people filed into the sanctuary overlooking the lake to remember Hersh Goldberg-Polin - son, brother, camper, counselor - killed by Hamas after nearly 11 months in captivity. This Passover was the first without him.
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1 week ago |
forward.com | Benyamin Cohen
When Alan Garber, the Jewish physician and economist who now leads Harvard, wrote a letter to the community about why the country's oldest university would not agree to the Trump administration's demands, he spoke not just about academic freedom, but about moral boundaries and identity. "Although some of the demands outlined by the government are aimed at combating antisemitism, the majority represent direct governmental regulation of the 'intellectual conditions' at Harvard," he wrote.
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1 week ago |
sun-sentinel.com | Benyamin Cohen
As the Trump administration escalates its campaign to revoke the visas of hundreds of international students — many for their involvement in pro-Palestinian activism — Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden administration’s antisemitism envoy, is offering support for some of the moves. “To depict some of these people as martyrs and heroes is ludicrous,” Lipstadt said in an interview, her words pointed and deliberate. Since early this year, more than 500 students have had their visas revoked.
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1 week ago |
forward.com | Benyamin Cohen
By Benyamin Cohen April 15, 2025As the Trump administration escalates its campaign to revoke the visas of hundreds of international students - many for their involvement in pro-Palestinian activism - Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden administration's antisemitism envoy, is offering support for some of the moves. "To depict some of these people as martyrs and heroes is ludicrous," Lipstadt said in an interview, her words pointed and deliberate.
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2 weeks ago |
forward.com | Benyamin Cohen
By Benyamin Cohen April 10, 2025The conspiracy theory started, ironically, when an Orthodox rabbi stood in front of a display of Coca-Cola bottles and held up one with a yellow cap to explain Jewish life to roughly 1 million followers on TikTok and Instagram. The demonstration was intended to illustrate a quirk of the Passover season: a version of Coke that's made without high fructose corn syrup.
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On a blue-sky Thursday in the north Georgia mountains, Ramah Darom’s canoes rested and pickleballs sat idle as more than 200 people filed into the sanctuary overlooking the lake to remember Hersh Goldberg-Polin — son, brother, camper, counselor — killed by Hamas after nearly 11
This day in history: Einstein died 70 years ago today on April 18, 1955. https://t.co/0hm9y3ExuA
A pièce de résistance of reporting by my colleague @thislouis... https://t.co/iF7pKL3Zh5