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Andrew Lapin

Andrew Lapin is the Managing Editor for Local News at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

The pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA, which has since been disbanded, seen in May. (Jacob Gurvis/JTA)
Posted inCalifornia

UCLA can’t let protesters block Jewish students’ access to campus, judge rules

by Andrew Lapin August 14, 2024August 15, 2024
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a ban on conversion therapy for minors and vulnerable adults and two bills that would make Minnesota a refuge for people traveling for abortion and gender affirming care, Thursday, April 27, 2023, St. Paul, Minn. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune via Getty Images)
Posted inPolitics

How a tragic twist in Minnesota’s ‘Jewish Senate seat’ helped Tim Walz break into politics

by Andrew Lapin August 7, 2024August 7, 2024
The cover of "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" superimposed over a photo of Gabrielle Zevin speaking into a microphone
Posted inBooks

How Gabrielle Zevin’s ‘Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow’ became an unlikely lightning rod in literary fights over the Israel-Hamas war

by Andrew Lapin July 24, 2024July 24, 2024
Most rabbis will not authorize a conversion to Judaism from inside prison, citing lack of access to resources and questions about motivation. (Illustration by Grace Yagel/70 Faces Media)
Posted inPodcasts

‘Tales of the Unbound’: Podcast chronicles Jewish conversions of incarcerated men seeking atonement

by Andrew Lapin July 18, 2024July 19, 2024
Rabbi David Minkus (left) leads a discussion at Mercaz, a community programming initiative of Congregation Rodfei Zedek in Chicago's Hyde Park. In June 2024 Minkus released "A Leaflet Drops in Shul," a podcast about his handling of an anti-Zionist congregant's actions. (Courtesy of Mercaz)
Posted inPodcasts

‘A Leaflet Drops in Shul’: New podcast explores anti-Zionism at a Chicago synagogue

by Andrew Lapin July 2, 2024July 2, 2024
New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik displays the Anti-Defamation League's "F" campus report card grade for Northwestern as the presidents of that school, Rutgers, and UCLA testify before Congress on May 23, 2024. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

ADL doubles down on its campus antisemitism report cards despite backlash

by Andrew Lapin June 24, 2024June 24, 2024
Jewish pro-Palestinian activists protest Birthright in a scene from the documentary "Israelism" (Photo/JTA/Tikkun Olam Productions)
Posted inFilm

‘Israelism,’ the progressive Jewish documentary roiling college campuses, gets digital release with Watermelon Pictures

by Andrew Lapin June 6, 2024June 6, 2024
The Wing Luke Museum in Seattle, Washington. (Screenshot/JTA via YouTube)
Posted inCulture

Seattle museum staff walk out over exhibit about antisemitism they said ‘conveyed Zionist perspectives’

by Andrew Lapin May 28, 2024May 28, 2024
UC Santa Cruz workers on strike over treatment of pro-Palestinian protesters, May 20, 2024. (Photo/Courtesy UAW 4811)
Posted inBay Area

Pro-Palestinian protesters want UCSC to cut ties with Hillel and Chabad

by Andrew Lapin May 23, 2024
Police officers clash with pro-Palestinian demonstrators at the University of California at Irvine on May 15, 2024. (Photo/JTA-Qian Weizhong-VCG via Getty Images)
Posted inCalifornia

UC workers authorize strike in response to treatment of pro-Palestinian protesters

by Andrew Lapin May 16, 2024May 16, 2024

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