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Beth Harpaz

Beth Harpaz

Beth Harpaz is a reporter for the Forward. She previously worked for the Associated Press, first covering breaking news and politics, then as AP Travel editor. Follow her @literarydj or email [email protected].

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Posted inPolitics

The Jewish vote could swing the election in 7 key battleground states. Here’s how

Beth Harpaz by Beth Harpaz September 24, 2024November 4, 2024

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Antisemitism, Israel and Jewish candidates are front and center […]

Paul Simon (Photo/MGM+)
Posted inFilm

‘In Restless Dreams’ looks back at Paul Simon’s career, spiritual yearnings

Beth Harpaz by Beth Harpaz June 4, 2024June 4, 2024
"Courtyard Terezin" by Malva Schaleck. (Courtesy ORT/Art and the Holocaust)
Posted inCulture

In concentration camps, Jewish artists painted in secret, hid their work and traded art for food

Beth Harpaz by Beth Harpaz May 7, 2024May 7, 2024
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Posted inU.S.

‘No divestment, no commencement’: Students fear protests will upend their college graduations

Beth Harpaz by Beth Harpaz April 30, 2024
Detail from Frank Stella’s "Then came a dog and bit the cat." (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Skirball Cultural Center)
Posted inCulture

That Passover song about the goat captivated a famous artist who wasn’t Jewish

Beth Harpaz by Beth Harpaz April 25, 2024April 25, 2024
Zehava Dahan behind place settings for relatives of her best friend in Israel who were taken hostage by Hamas, part of a public Shabbat dinner-themed installation in front of San Francisco City Hall, Nov. 10, 2023. (Photo/Andrew Esensten)
Posted inIsrael

Hamas says it cannot produce total of 40 hostages needed to meet criteria for cease-fire deal

Beth Harpaz by Beth Harpaz April 10, 2024
Israelis featured on the @israelsowhite Instagram account, which celebrates diverse Jewish heritage and pokes fun at claims that Israelis are “white colonizers.” (Photo/Courtesy Ben Younger)
Posted inFilm

Instagram’s ‘IsraelSoWhite’ mocks notion of Israelis as ‘white colonizers’

Beth Harpaz by Beth Harpaz February 12, 2024February 12, 2024
Children outside 770 Eastern Parkway, Chabad headquarters in Brooklyn, on Jan. 9, 2023. (Photo/Forward-Mira Fox
Posted inAnalysis

So why were those yeshiva students digging an unauthorized tunnel at Chabad headquarters?

Beth Harpaz by Beth Harpaz January 9, 2024January 9, 2024
a low cement wall with the words "University of California, Davis" written on it
Posted inBay Area

UC Davis prof tweets threat to ‘Zionist journalists’ and their children

Beth Harpaz by Beth Harpaz October 19, 2023October 21, 2023
A rally at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, shows support for Palestinians in Gaza, on Oct. 14, 2023. (Photo/Joseph Prezioso - AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

Wexner breaks ties with Harvard, citing school’s ‘failure’ to condemn Hamas

Beth Harpaz by Beth Harpaz October 16, 2023

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