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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 529

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Tents are set up by pro-Palestinians students outside the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford, May 9, 2024 (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
May 11, 2024, 10:02 am
As pro-Palestinian encampments spread to UK campuses, Sunak seeks to head off unrest
British PM meets with university heads after warning of antisemitism, with ‘students and academic staff being targeted, threatened, and assaulted simply for being Jewish’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Part of the handwritten list of words attributed to Maimonides from the Cambridge University Genizah Research Unit. (courtesy Cambridge University/José Martínez Delgado)
May 19, 2023, 4:36 pm
Mysterious trilingual Cairo Geniza vocab list found to be penned by Maimonides
Housed at Cambridge University’s Genizah Research Unit, crib sheet with words in Hebrew, Arabic and a Romance dialect gives a glimpse into renowned philosopher’s method of thinking
By Melanie Lidman
Dr. Lalita Ramakrishnan, seen here with tanks of zebrafish, is a professor of microbiology at Cambridge University focused on tuberculosis. (Courtesy of MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
May 6, 2023, 3:22 pm
Study: Gaucher disease, common among Ashkenazi Jews, protects against tuberculosis
Cambridge University team discovers that specific cellular-level lipids that accumulate in the genetic disease attack and kill deadly TB bacterium, hope to develop new treatment
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, 12 September 2006. (Andrew Dunn, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia)
March 29, 2023, 11:35 pm
UK museum to return painting stolen by Nazis to family of Jewish owner
Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum surrenders 19th-century painting by French artist Gustave Courbet stolen from Paris apartment of Robert Bing in 1941
By AFP
Illustrative: Angel Cespedes, 14, who is in need of a kidney transplant, lies in bed feeling unwell after dialysis treatment at his home in Valles del Tuy on the outskirts of Caracas, Venezuela, November 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
August 18, 2022, 7:30 pm
Scientists alter kidney blood type, potentially increasing transplant availability
Study may have significant implications for patients from ethnic minorities, who are less likely to find a match for the majority of donated kidneys
By Tobias Siegal
John Cleese performs during his show 'Last Time to See Me Before I Die' (Tobias Nokolai/Polfoto via AP)
November 12, 2021, 9:54 pm
John Cleese axes university appearance after historian banned for Hitler parody
Student group walks back blacklisting of Andrew Graham-Dixon after Monty Python comedian says he’s blacklisting himself in solidarity
By JTA and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Close-up of a 12,000-year-old human burial embedded in the white material found in the Ein Gev cave. (courtesy)
December 6, 2019, 9:33 am
12,000-year-old Galilee artifacts reset plaster production clock by 2 millennia
Scientific study of plaster used in cemetery near Ein Gev indicates community must have worked together to bury their deceased, shedding new light on ritual and mass production
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Undated family photo issued by London's Metropolitan Police showing Saskia Jones, who died during a terror attack at London Bridge, on November 29, 2019. (Family photo/ London's Metropolitan Police via AP)
December 1, 2019, 8:54 pm
Second London terror victim identified as Saskia Jones, 23
Jones, of Warwickshire, was a volunteer at the event marking prisoner rehabilitation where former convict Usman Khan went on deadly rampage
By AFP
Screen capture from video of Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad during a Cambridge Union event in which he made remarks deemed anti-Semitic. (YouTube)
June 18, 2019, 10:19 am
Malaysian PM draws laughter with anti-Semitic jibe at UK’s Cambridge University
Debating union hosts Mahathir Mohamad, who says he has Jewish friends but they ‘are not like other Jews’; Jewish group calls audience response ‘chilling’
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Arabic petition with Hebrew writing from Cairo Geniza (Michelle Paymar)
May 16, 2019, 4:32 am
Documentary unravels history — and digital future — of mysterious Cairo Geniza
Film includes interviews with 40 experts who chart the strange discovery and continued scholarship of the mass of rare random documents that make for a rich ‘medieval Facebook’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Oxford University. (Shutterstock)
October 20, 2017, 3:01 pm
Oxford University accused of ‘social apartheid’ for low number of black students
10 of elite institution’s 32 colleges accepted no black British students in 2015; Cambridge, where 6 colleges took no UK black students, blames low application rates
By ToI Staff
The entrance to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with the lettering 'Arbeit macht frei' ('Work makes you free'). (Joel Saget/AFP)
October 6, 2017, 10:56 pm
Cambridge college sorry for confusion over Auschwitz photo on welcome pamphlet
Dean of Emmanuel College says implication image meant as a joke ‘infuriating,’ explains photo meant to accompany sermon about trip to death camp
By ToI Staff
A child’s alphabet and doodles, circa 1000 years old, from the Cairo Geniza, part of the Discarded History: The Genizah of Medieval Cairo exhibit on display from April 27, 2017 (Cambridge University)
April 27, 2017, 11:48 pm
Sex and business among medieval Cairo’s Jews go on display at Cambridge
New exhibit showcases dozens of fragments, some newly translated, that tell the story of ordinary folks living under Islam in the Middle Ages
By Ilan Ben Zion
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis addresses London's anti- anti-Semitism rally Sunday, August 31, 2014. (courtesy Adam Arnold)
February 18, 2017, 9:51 pm
Act on rising anti-Semitism, Jewish students tell UK universities
Spate of recent incidents include appearance on campuses of swastikas, flyers praising Holocaust denial
By ToI Staff
The Great Court at Trinity College at Cambridge University (CC BY-SA, Andrew Dunn, Wikimedia Commons)
February 7, 2017, 10:03 pm
Cambridge Jewish students ‘deeply concerned’ about anti-Semitism
Letter expressing worry over uptick in incidents against Jews; swastikas, flyers supporting Holocaust denier found at university over weekend
By JTA and ToI Staff
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