Howard Lovy

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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

By Howard Lovy Feb 3, 2023 | 4 min read
Books
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.

By Howard Lovy Jun 6, 2022 | 4 min read
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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…

By Howard Lovy Feb 24, 2022 | 7 min read
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….

By Howard Lovy Dec 11, 2019 | 3 min read
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…

By Howard Lovy Aug 20, 2019 | 4 min read
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…

By Howard Lovy Jul 9, 2019 | 3 min read
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…

By Howard Lovy Jul 3, 2019 | 3 min read

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Howard Lovy

By Howard Lovy

One rabbi’s lifesaving solution to help Odessa’s vulnerable Jews: jerry-rigged car batteries

Before WWII, Jewish mobsters kept Nazis at bay in the US — with their fists

For years she led Palestinian resistance efforts. Now Huwaida Arraf wants a seat in Congress.

Trump’s Executive Order Against College Campuses Is Bad For The Jews

Tokenism Is Racism – Except For Jews

As A Jew, I Cringed Over Jeffrey Epstein – And Played Into The Anti-Semites’ Hands.

When Our School Integrated, We Jewish Kids Were The Only White Ones Who Didn’t Boycott

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Howard Lovy

By Howard Lovy

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For years she led Palestinian resistance efforts. Now Huwaida Arraf wants a seat in Congress.

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