Brooklyn Synagogue Pulls Cash From Chase In Climate Change Protest
Congregation Kolot Chayeinu in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood is removing its savings from JPMorgan Chase.
This Passover, Check Out The Exodus Secrets In The Met’s Egyptian Wing
An ultra-Orthodox tour guide offers tours of the Met’s — through the unique lens of the exodus story.
Germany Recognizes Algerian Jews As Holocaust Survivors
Algerian Jews had their French citizenship stripped by the Vichy government, and laws banned Jews from working as doctors, lawyers and teachers.
The Faces Of The First Palestinians Born Under Occupation
“If you can’t bring the people, you can at least bring their pictures.”
What A Controversial Palestinian Play Can Teach Us About Art As Resistance
Critics of the play have included the ADL, World Jewish Congress and the director of NYU’s Taub Center for Israel Studies.
White House Stonewalls Jewish Immigration Agency
It was a busy day for Hetfield the day after President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning all refugees from any country for 120 days and all immigration from war-gutted Syria permanently. Trump also barred entry of Muslims from seven countries for 90 days. Hetfield had to deal with the impact of the order – “a cruel, vicious act,” he called it – on this particular family, whose name he declined to share to protect their safety.
Is Fight Against Donald Trump Sparking New Movement of #JewishResistance?
(Haaretz) — When 50 members of the grassroots protest group If Not Now arrived at UJA-Federation of New York in the late afternoon gloom last Monday, they were met by a scrum of police and security officers barring their entry into the building.
Crown Heights Grapples With Dramatic Changes 25 Years After Riots
Much has changed in Crown Heights in the past 25 years, since the accidental death of a black boy touched off three days of rioting in which black youths attacked religious Jews in the Brooklyn neighborhood.
Reform Women Rabbis Celebrate Getting Exact Same Title as Men — After 44 Years
Since 1972, when the Reform movement ordained its first female rabbi, more than 700 others have joined her ranks in that denomination alone. But a surprise awaited them, though few seemed to notice: The language on their ordination certificates was markedly different than that of their male colleagues.
Orthodox Advocates Push for Sex Abuse Reform in New York
Advocates for sexual abuse victims in the Orthodox Jewish community will be descending on New York’s state capital on May 3 to lobby the legislature to eliminate the statute of limitations for child sex abuse offenses.
