Randi Weingarten
By Randi Weingarten
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Opinion Letter to my community: My faith in Judaism and my faith in unions are one and the same
I’d like to clarify some comments I made in a recent interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Those remarks sparked a controversy. Unfortunately, a few issues got conflated in the interview. For that, I apologize. In the interview, I intended to point out that while there was a time in our Jewish communal history in…
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Sponsored Trampling on the sacred right to vote
Every person in America deserves a voice and representation in our democracy; these are essential for a vibrant society and for Americans to thrive. That is why voting is a sacred right in America, one that advocates have fought fiercely to expand, over the life of our republic, to Black Americans, women and others who…
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Community How to honor Rabin’s legacy
These remarks are drawn from a commemoration that Americans for Peace Now organized in memory of Yitzhak Rabin’s 25 year yarzheit. There are moments in history that first devastate us and then compel us to recommit to the struggle for justice. The murder of Martin Luther King. The murder of Mahatma Ghandi. The murder of…
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Sponsored Trump’s COVID-19 School Crisis
When a Georgia student posted a photo of her packed school hallway with virtually no one wearing masks, it went viral. The reaction from those in power was to suspend her rather than figure out how to keep kids and educators safe during a pandemic. Later, of course, they had to take the coronavirus seriously…
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Sponsored Safety, not recklessness, must drive reopening of schools
Teachers want to get back to their classrooms with their students. We know the limits of remote instruction and the harm of prolonged isolation for students. We know that children connect, learn and thrive best when they’re in school in person, and that public schools feed 30 million kids a day, in normal times. In…
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Opinion Public Education is a Jewish value
Our legacy as the most successful Jewish diaspora community in our people’s history is thanks to two things: the right freely to exercise our religion without state interference and the extraordinary education our ancestors — and our kids today — received and receive — through public education. Everything about our experience as American Jews is…
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Sponsored ‘I can’t breathe’
When a person gasps “I can’t breathe,” it is incomprehensible that there would not be a rush to help. Yet this was the lived experience of George Floyd, Eric Garner and so many Black men before them. Black people have endured unending grief, fear, anger and trauma caused by racism and racial violence. They are…
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Sponsored Don’t forfeit the future
The American people have paid a heavy price for the unchecked spread of the coronavirus—at this writing, in the United States, 86,000 people have lost their lives, 36 million have lost their livelihoods, 1.4 million have contracted COVID-19 and 55 million students are not in school. President Trump has caused the country to lose ground…
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