Barat Ellman
By Barat Ellman
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Letters Letter | My fellow Jews: It’s time to stop heaping blame on Tamika Mallory
To the editors: The Forward’s coverage of the Recording Academy’s award show, “The Grammys Highlighted Jews of Color But Picked a Strange Champion for Racial Justice,” was not only disappointingly condescending, it was also an extraordinary demonstration of presumption and entitlement. What gives The Forward the right to tell Black people who is the best…
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Opinion No, It’s Not Anti-Semitic To Schedule Your March For Yom Kippur
When the Jewish community learned that the March for Racial Justice was scheduled for Yom Kippur (September 30), outraged responses filled social media. It was the immediate aftermath of Charlottesville, and we Jews had been made keenly aware that we, too, remain objects of hate by White Supremacists. It had been made clear that, like…
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Opinion How Trump’s Inaugural Pastor Misread the Bible
It is the custom in our country, notwithstanding the enshrined principle of separation of church and state, for a clergy member to offer words of encouragement and moral guidance to the President-elect on the morning of the inauguration. On the eve of Donald Trump’s inauguration, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly interviewed the designated minister, Robert…
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