Philissa Cramer
@philissa
Editor-in-chief @JTANews. Formerly: Cofounder/editor @Chalkbeat. NYC(-area) again via Evanston & Newburyport; mom; rebbetzin. I have opinions about dessert.
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How to stop campus antisemitism? US officials, Jewish advocates and anti-DEI conservatives, all say the answer is Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Inside the post-Oct. 7 "Wild West" of Title VI investigations Essential reporting from Andrew Lapin jta.org/2024/02/29/uni…
I was surprised by how much I learned from this Asaf Elia-Shalev interview with the volunteer bureaucrat leading the effort to allocate a historic outpouring of US Jewish philanthropy to Israel jta.org/2024/03/13/isr…
This speculative story set in 2053 is the most optimistic thing you can read about Israel/Palestine today. It suggests (as others have) that the tide will turn when women lead (ht DZ Kalman 🇺🇸🇨🇦) themontrealreview.com/Fiction/Lookin…
JD Vance's chief of staff is a Jewish guy from New Jersey who once interned for Hillary Clinton — and Asaf Elia-Shalev talked to his childhood rabbi jta.org/2024/07/30/uni…
Tim Walz wrote a master's thesis in 2001 about Holocaust education, in which he argued for changes to how most schools handled the subject. JTA | Jewish news obtained it — and talked to former students about his school's approach to teaching the Holocaust jta.org/2024/08/06/pol…
Jewish communities tend to join the resistance against anti-immigrant rhetoric. Not in Springfield, Ohio. Andrew Lapin talked to the rabbi of the city's only synagogue and found out why jta.org/2024/09/19/uni…