Marisa Fox-Bevilacqua
By Marisa Fox-Bevilacqua
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Opinion 10 ways Jewish Americans can help Afghan refugees
The scenes from Afghanistan seem too dire to overcome. But there are things each of us can do right now that can make a major impact. The United States currently works with nine refugee resettlement agencies to assist those fleeing persecution abroad. HIAS, originally the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, is one of them — and…
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Opinion Delays were deadly during the Holocaust. We cannot repeat the same mistakes in Afghanistan
As the Taliban entered Kabul, one former translator for the U.S. military felt she was living through a horror movie. “Nobody wants to leave their home because they don’t know if they’ll make it back alive,” she told me via WhatsApp on Wednesday. “The past 20 years feel like a dream. Overnight everything has changed.”…
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News Queer Zionists ask: ‘Where are our allies?’
Ahead of Pride Month this year, New Jersey-based trans activist Hannah Simpson reached out to the head of a trans organization to help plan an event. But when she suggested including groups like a Wider Bridge, a non-profit that connects American and Israeli LGBTQ communities, Simpson was booted. “I was told ‘because you’re a Jew,…
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News For Holocaust survivors, Trump’s refusal to concede is a bad memory
In the days after the 2020 presidential election, Auschwitz survivor Irene Fogel-Weiss grew increasingly despondent. “I had worried so much before the election. I was happy to find out that maybe I was wrong and that I had overreacted, but now I can’t help but feel alarmed,” said Fogel-Weiss, a survivor from the Czech town…
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Opinion For women trapped in abusive relationships, quarantine can be more dangerous than COVID-19
For most of us, the shelter-in-place order that followed the outbreak of the new coronavirus is a challenge. But for women trapped in abusive relationships, being confined to the home can be more life-threatening than COVID-19, the disease the virus causes. Domestic violence afflicts one in three women nationally, according to the Centers for Disease…
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Opinion ‘We rehearse for this all the time’: Holocaust survivors face coronavirus with grit and humor
For Cordula Hahn, a Holocaust survivor in Brooklyn, the first trigger was the lack of toilet paper. “Oh, no, will I have to go back using newspaper?” she asks, half chuckling. “That’s what we did when we were in hiding in the Netherlands, and seeing the panic over toilet paper immediately brought back that memory.”…
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Opinion It’s Time For A Holocaust #MeToo Reckoning
Over the past few months, more and more women have been opening up about horrible stories of sexual harassment, assault and abuse. The #MeToo movement is a long overdue corrective to our culture. And yet the stories of one group of women have yet to crest into the mainstream and get the recognition they deserve:…
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