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The union representing professors at the City University of New York approved a resolution last week in support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel.

Yad Vashem Way is the initiative of Mayor Eric Adams and Council Member Keith Powers, with the City Council’s endorsement.

The Israel-hating socialist has raised $641,816 since beginning his campaign three months ago, the most of any candidate over this stretch in the heavily contested race.

The new street sign, named for the Jerusalem museum built in 1953 as a memorial to victims of the Holocaust, is just a few steps from Park East Synagogue, the stately Orthodox congregation at 163 East 67th St. that’s been led for more than six decades by Rabbi Arthur Schneier, himself a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor.

Most of NYU’s revenue came from patient services. The health system increased its patient revenue by 12% year-over-year to $2.8 billion, the financial statement shows. Hospital management attributed the growth to rising discharges, more outpatient surgeries and an 8% bump in emergency room visits, said hospital spokesman Steve Ritea.

The art exhibit is one of two Holocaust-related events Yad Vashem organized in New York this week. The second is the dedication of a street on East 67th Street and 3rd Avenue as Yad Vashem Way. The Jan. 30 street naming ceremony marks the first time a street in the US honors the Israeli institution dedicated to memorializing the Holocaust.

This institution of Yad Vashem, which is more necessary than ever, is now going to have a rightful place on the streets of New York,” Keith Powers, a New York

A group of protesters clogged the sewage system of Columbia’s international affairs school, and spray painted the business school with an antisemitic slur

Hamas freed three Israelis and five Thai nationals in exchange for more than 100 Palestinians. But the militant group struggled to control crowds, prompting a delay.

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Democratic lawmakers had expressed concerns to Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken about the rifles possibly going to settler militias or being misused by the police.