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Trump administration texts Barnard professors, asking if they are Jewish

JL;DR SUMMARY Barnard College professors received texts from the Trump administration asking about their Jewish identity as part of an EEOC investigation into alleged discrimination against Jewish faculty. 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 IdentityTrump AdministrationPro Palestinian ProtestsDiscriminationBarnard CollegeFreedom Of SpeechEeocPrivacy ConcernsFaculty RightsAntagonism

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New York, United States
"Barnard is a womens college affiliated with Columbia University in New York, and both have faced escalating scrutiny over pro-Palestinian protests on their campuses, which reached a peak last spring and have continued since."

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