“As a refugee one never loses a certain sense of insecurity,” the journalist Hella Pick told the BBC.
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Authors and readers are hungry for characters who reflect the modern range of Jewish identity.
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Ellen Weinstein's "Five Stories" traces the inhabitants of a Lower East Side building, from a Jewish family in the 1910s to a Chinese family in the present.
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Pro-Palestinian activists are cheering the encampments, while Jewish campus groups are calling for action to stop them.
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Columbia deactivates Shai Davidai's campus entry card ahead of a planned sit-in at the protest encampment that has thrown the university into turmoil.
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Staff at the day camp in New York's Rockland County went on to prominent roles in synagogues and Jewish education.
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