Debra Nussbaum Cohen is an award-winning journalist and the author of Celebrating Your New Jewish Daughter: Creating Jewish Ways to Welcome Baby Girls into the Covenant. Follow her on Instagram @debranc or email her at dncnews@icloud.com.
Debra Nussbaum Cohen
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
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Fast Forward Starbucks Denies Demoting ADL From Anti-Bias Training
NEW YORK (JTA) — Starbucks denied that it demoted the Anti-Defamation League from a lead role in its anti-bias training, saying it continues to view the Jewish group as a valuable partner in future training. Reggie Borges, a spokesman for the coffee giant, spoke to JTA on Wednesday following speculation that left-wing criticism of the…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Synagogue Pulls Cash From Chase In Climate Change Protest
NEW YORK (JTA) — Congregation Kolot Chayeinu in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood is removing its savings from JPMorgan Chase, making it the first U.S. synagogue to publicly divest from a bank or other corporation “to explicitly oppose the funding of fossil fuel and other related projects dangerous to the world in which we live,” according…
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Life This Passover, Check Out The Exodus Secrets In The Met’s Egyptian Wing
NEW YORK (JTA) — I have roamed the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Egyptian wing many times, marveling at sarcophagi, statues of Horus and Ra, and portraits of young men on ancient panels who gaze back at visitors, looking shockingly familiar and contemporary. But on a Sunday just before Passover, I viewed the artifacts as I’d…
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Fast Forward Germany Recognizes Algerian Jews As Holocaust Survivors
NEW YORK (JTA) — Close to 80 years after being persecuted by the Nazi-allied Vichy French government, some 25,000 elderly Algerian Jews are for the first time being recognized as Holocaust survivors by the German government. Algerian Jews had their French citizenship stripped by the Vichy government, which then ruled the area, in 1940. Nuremberg-like…
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Culture The Faces Of The First Palestinians Born Under Occupation
It looks like a straightforward photography show. 50 photos of 50 different 50-year-olds hang on the walls of a warehouse-turned-gallery in Jaffa. But these photos are of Palestinians, each born in 1967, the year the Occupation began after Israel’s almost miraculous victory in the Six Day War. So, naturally, little about the show has been…
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Culture What A Controversial Palestinian Play Can Teach Us About Art As Resistance
The play “The Siege,” created and performed by The Freedom Theater, which is based in the West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp, is itself under siege. It’s the latest lightning rod in an ongoing conflict over how Israel and the Palestinian territories are represented in theatrical productions. The Palestinian play, which is currently being staged at…
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News White House Stonewalls Jewish Immigration Agency
It was the wife and young daughters of a Syrian refugee in Connecticut who were Mark Hetfield’s main focus Saturday. Hetfield, a 2016 Forward 50 honoree for his work as president and chief executive of HIAS — formerly called the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society — runs the only Jewish organization recognized by the U.S. government…
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News 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. Holding a banner bearing the IfNotNow logo and #JewishResistance, the young demonstrators…
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