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New England Patriots owner and philanthropist
Robert Kraft and rapper Meek Mill at the March of
the Living walk in Poland on April 18
Robert Kraft and Meek Mill Walk March of
Living Together
An unusual duo made the two-mile-plus walk from
Auschwitz to Birkenau last week during the annual
March of the Living in Poland: Robert Kraft, Jewish
billionaire New England Patriots owner and philanthro-
pist who launched a campaign last month opposing
antisemitism, and Meek Mill, a prominent rapper from
Philadelphia, JNS.org reported.

“It’s important for me to learn humanity’s history,” Mill
said. “It’s also important for me to support Robert, all my
Jewish friends, everyone that always supported me.”
Mill credited Kraft with learning about his culture and
background and supporting him “at a very high level”
when he was jailed on gun and drug charges at 19.

“He’s a man who’s very caring, and it’s very important
to him to build bridges between people of the Jewish
Yeshiva U Restores Women’s Talmud Classes
Whose Cancellation Incited an Uproar
Beginner and intermediate Talmud courses are back
on the course schedule for undergraduate students
at Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, after
an uproar over their cancellation, JTA.org reported.

Stern College administrators had said the school
would not off er beginning and intermediate Talmud
— courses about a foundational Jewish text for
women at the country’s fl agship Modern Orthodox
university — because of low enrollment in those
classes. That prompted more than 1,400 students,
graduates and others to sign a petition urging the
school to reinstate the classes and to endow a
full-time chair of Talmud studies.

Now, Stern College says it is adding several
Talmud classes to next semester’s schedule, citing
increased interest among students.

“It was heartwarming to see the outpouring of inter-
est revolving around women’s Talmud learning on the
Beren campus,” Shoshana Schechter, Stern’s associate
dean of Torah and spiritual life, and Deena Rabinovich,
chair of the Jewish studies department, said in a letter
distributed to students by email and WhatsApp.

Frankfurt Can’t Cancel Roger Waters Concert
Over His Antisemitism Record, Court Rules
Frankfurt’s administrative court ruled that the city
can’t cancel a Roger Waters concert after calling him
“one of the most widely known antisemites in the
world,” JTA.org reported.

Waters, the former frontman of the band Pink Floyd,
took legal action and prevailed on April 25 after
Frankfurt offi cials said in February they would cancel
his concert in May. The city can appeal the ruling.

The Frankfurt court ruled that because Waters “did
not glorify or relativise the crimes of the Nazis or
identify with Nazi racist ideology” in past concerts,
it was not appropriate to cancel the upcoming one.

Waters’ full-throated anti-Israel activism has
frequently been accused of veering into antisem-
itism. In addition to being a leader of the boycott,
divestment and sanctions movement, Waters has
fl own a pig-shaped balloon bearing a Star of David at
his concerts and spoken about the alleged power of
a nefarious Jewish lobby in the United States, among
other things. ■
— Compiled by Andy Gotlieb
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faith and people of color in America,” Kraft said about Mill.

“I always stand on anything that condemns racism,”
Mill told CNN. “Now that I had an education, I’ll defi nitely
spread the word to people in my culture about what
I’ve seen and what I felt at that concentration camp.”