The grant includes funding to develop university courses in the Jewish humanities.

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The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a nonprofit focused on the study of Jewish culture $10.4 million to “combat the recrudescence and normalization of anti-Semitism in American society” through educational, scholarship and public programs, the federal agency announced in a news release Monday.

The conservative organization Tikvah—which plans to recognize right-wing commentators Ben Shapiro and Bari Weiss, editor of the Free Press , with a key award—was invited to apply and did not win the grant through a competitive application process, according to The Washington Post . The grant to Tikvah is the largest in the agency’s 60-year history. Meanwhile,

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