Howard Lovy
By Howard Lovy
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Fast Forward One rabbi’s lifesaving solution to help Odessa’s vulnerable Jews: jerry-rigged car batteries
Rabbi Avraham Wolff is trying to raise money for 357 heating units — one for each apartment where a Holocaust survivor lives
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Culture Before WWII, Jewish mobsters kept Nazis at bay in the US — with their fists
In “Gangsters Vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America,” Michael Benson chronicles how Jewish leaders worked together with the likes of Meyer Lansky.
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Fast Forward For years she led Palestinian resistance efforts. Now Huwaida Arraf wants a seat in Congress.
(JTA) — Now running for Congress in Michigan: a Hebrew-speaking Palestinian Christian who is married to a Jew and spent time living on an Israeli kibbutz before rejecting coexistence efforts in favor of advocating for Palestinian resistance. The onetime organizer of the International Solidarity Movement, a pro-Palestinian group that recognizes the right to “legitimate armed…
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Opinion Trump’s Executive Order Against College Campuses Is Bad For The Jews
On Tuesday, the New York Times revealed that the Trump Administration plans a new executive order that aims to crack down on college campus anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, penalizing universities for failing to protect Jewish students. You may feel as I do that college campuses have gotten increasingly — and inexcusably — anti-Semitic in recent years….
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Opinion Tokenism Is Racism – Except For Jews
Back in February, a U.S. representative from my home state of Michigan, Rashida Tlaib, pointed out how tokenism is a form of racism. During the Michael Cohen hearings, Tlaib said it was racist for North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows to use an African American employee of Donald Trump as a “prop” to try to prove…
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Opinion As A Jew, I Cringed Over Jeffrey Epstein – And Played Into The Anti-Semites’ Hands.
When I heard that Jeffrey Epstein had been arrested on sex-trafficking charges, I cringed. I’m sure I was not the only Jewish person who did, or whose first thought was,Why does this sorry excuse for a human have to be Jewish? And I probably also wasn’t the only Jewish person whose second thought was, Given…
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Opinion When Our School Integrated, We Jewish Kids Were The Only White Ones Who Didn’t Boycott
In 1972, I was six years old and attending first grade at an elementary school in Augusta, Georgia. My two older brothers and I were, as far as I knew, the only Jews in the school. But on March 15 of that year, we would also be the only white students in attendance. The previous…
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