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How a Jewish student at Columbia became an icon of a movement

JL;DR SUMMARY Noa Fay, a 23-year-old graduate from Columbia's Barnard College, has become a prominent figure in the fight against campus antisemitism and in defense of Israel. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish IdentityMatisyahuIntersectionalityJewish ActivismBarnard CollegeColumbia UniversityNoa FayCampus Advocacy

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New York City, New York, United States
"Her whirlwind celebrity is rooted in her experience as a Jewish student at Columbia University in the aftermath of Oct. 7."
Washington, D.C., Washington DC, United States
"and a week after that, in front of 300,000 people at the pro-Israel March on Washington."
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
"Fay grew up in the heavily Jewish suburbs of Brookline and Lexington, Massachusetts,"
Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
"Fay grew up in the heavily Jewish suburbs of Brookline and Lexington, Massachusetts,"
Paris, France
"so she spent a gap year in Paris doing a genealogy project."
Oslo, Norway
"She studied abroad at the University of Oslo, volunteered with the pro-Israel group Zioness, and interned at the Knesset."

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