Anya Kamenetz writes The Golden Hour newsletter about coping and thriving in a time of multiple crises, and is the recipient of a New Narratives Fellowship from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project for her coverage of trans rights and inequality.
Anya Kamenetz
By Anya Kamenetz
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Culture Persecuted for being LGBTQ+ in Trump country, they now have a chance to start over someplace new
Keshet and the Hebrew Free Loan Society are fighting discrimination and harassment by offering loans to those who need to flee
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Culture Five ‘Fruity Jews’ Get Out the Vote
It is a beautiful summer Friday in Seattle’s University District, and Frances Kreimer, 21, is wrapped in a tallit, praying the morning service outside an international students’ dorm. Inside, challah is rising in the kitchen, and Kreimer’s four roommates are making preparations for the Sabbath. The five East Coast college students have come out West…
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News A Push for Immigrant Workers’ Rights
On May 4, 1961, members of the Congress of Racial Equality set out on a public bus from Washington to integrate interstate transportation through the Freedom Ride. Confronting angry mobs, the Freedom Riders — with notable numbers of Jews among them — protested segregation in the Deep South. On September 20, 2003, the first Immigrant…
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News Now More Than Ever!
The medical supply unit at a large Israeli army base near Tel Aviv turns out to be a nondescript collection of warehouses with corrugated roofing, stacked inside with cardboard boxes. It’s just about the last place one might expect to find an American teenager having the time of her life. But in a workroom sorting…
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News Duo Raps Story of Job, Embattled Record Exec
MC Cain and MC Abel, unlike their biblical namesakes, get along famously. The young MCs, aka Jerome Saibil and Eli Batalion, have a two-man show, “Job: The Hip-Hop Musical,” which makes its New York premiere March 30 at the Here Arts Center, after becoming a favorite of the Saint-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival and touring Canada…
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