Dave Schechter
By Dave Schechter
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News Jimmy Carter built strong bridges to American Jews — and tested their patience
The evangelical president felt a kinship with Jews, but at times angered them with his outreach to Israel's adversaries in the Middle East
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News ‘Stop Cop City’ activists infuse Jewish rituals into their protest against Atlanta’s planned police training center
Renewed protests turned violent over the weekend, throwing into question plans for Purim and Shabbat observances in the woods
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Fast Forward Reconstructionist Judaism moves to back reparations for African Americans
A resolution signed by dozens of congregations does not mention financial compensation
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Fast Forward An Iowa farm girl’s pen pal was Anne Frank. A tiny museum remembers their brief correspondence.
(JTA) – Danville, Iowa, may seem an odd place for a Holocaust museum — until one learns that in the spring of 1940, an envelope addressed to “Miss J and B Wagner” brought letters written by Jewish sisters in Amsterdam to sisters living on a southeast Iowa farm. That correspondence — from Anne Frank to…
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News Atlanta’s Jews Split As Jon Ossoff Run For Congress Heads To Finish Line
Several weeks before the April primary for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District seat, the editor of the Atlanta Jewish Times invited readers to use the newspaper, particularly its website, as a forum “to talk about the merits of the candidates and the needs of the district, the state and the nation.” Readers since then have responded…
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News A Grassroots Success Story – How A Small Group of Atlanta Women Stood Up To Anti-Semitism
On the morning of Feb. 21, a 46-year-old wife and mother in suburban Atlanta awoke and decided that she could not stay silent amid a surge the recent in anti-Semitic activity, from bomb threats, toppled gravestones and synagogue vandalism to abhorrent speech online and on campus. By the morning of March 30, Lauren Menis –…
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Culture Here’s How One Man Has Preserved the Milestones of Jewish History
Jerry Klinger’s epiphany came as he stood on a corner in Las Vegas, New Mexico. He was looking for Temple Montefiore, the first Jewish house of worship in the state, dating to 1884. All he could find was a building the Catholic Church used. Turned out that Klinger was in the right place and had…
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Culture How Solomon Schechter’s Daughter Became a Card-Carrying Communist
<image In my mind’s eye, I see my great-aunt Amy. She is leading a march, striding toward a line of police officers wielding batons, her hands clenched in determination and worry. She is speaking at a rally, extolling the need for working men and women to organize, warning that the bosses will resist efforts to…
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