Sophie Ellman-Golan is Deputy Head of Socials and Outreach for the Women’s March. She is a core member of the Campaign for Police Accountability and Legislative Working Group at Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ). She holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Barnard College in Africana Studies and Human Rights.
Sophie Ellman-Golan
By Sophie Ellman-Golan
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On Friday, August 11, one year ago this weekend, hundreds of white men (and some white women) marched in Charlottesville, VA for the white nationalist Unite The Right rally. They surrounded a synagogue where a Jewish community was holding Kabbalat Shabbat services. They shouted Nazi and Ku Klux Klan slogans. They assaulted counter-protestors. The next…
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Community Worried About Anti-Semitism? Practice The Tolerance You Preach.
I woke up last Saturday morning to images of Charlottesville — to accounts of the white supremacist chants “blood and soil” and “Jews will not replace us.” I saw pictures of angry white men with swastikas giving the Nazi salute, their faces twisted in rage. As a white Jewish woman, I have for years approached…
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