Sandra Lawson
By Sandra Lawson
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Opinion ‘Love your neighbor as yourself:’ How Torah is helping me process Derek Chauvin’s conviction
The video of Rodney King’s beating by members of the Los Angeles Police Department emerged 30 years ago this March. It was one month before I joined the military. A year later, in April 1992, I was 22 years old and a military police person at Fort McClellan, Ala. I still remember the April morning…
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Opinion I’m a black rabbi. I’ve never been in a Jewish space where I wasn’t questioned.
Editor’s note: In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Forward is resurfacing some of our recent coverage related to the Black-Jewish experience and racial justice. This article originally appeared in June, 2020. I converted to Judaism because I fell in love with Judaism. I also naively believed that once I converted to Judaism,…
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Opinion AOC’s Squad Is Being Targeted For Calling Out Our Hateful Immigration Policies
Our country has a long, sordid history of telling black and brown people and other racial minorities to “go back to where they came from.” The “America: Love it or leave it leave it” sentiment reeks of racism and xenophobia, in that it prioritizes the idea that America is a country for white people. In…
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Opinion Juneteenth offers us a day for celebration, reflection, and healing
Genesis 15:13-14: And He said to Abram, “Know well that your offspring shall be strangers in a land not theirs, and they shall be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years; but I will execute judgment on the nation they shall serve, and in the end, they shall go free with great wealth. African-American liberation and…
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