Libby Lenkinski
By Libby Lenkinski
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Opinion Netanyahu And Trump Are Xenophobic Tyrants. We Must Resist Them – Together.
For American Jews, the recent resurgence of American nativism recalls the worst moments of the last century. American nativism brought us the Immigration Act of 1924, a racist law that closed America’s borders to Jews and other “undesirables,” and that ultimately barred our forebears from escaping the Nazis and finding refuge in America. Jews then…
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Letters We Need NGOs To Secure Our Civil Rights
In 1951, thirteen parents from Topeka, Kansas filed a class action lawsuit to allow their children to attend public schools closest to their homes. The result was a landmark Supreme Court case we now know as Brown vs. Board of Education, which overturned the doctrine of “separate but equal” – a principle of American law…
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