Tamar Manasseh is the founder and president of Mothers Against Senseless Killings. Follow her on X, @TamarManasseh.
Tamar Manasseh
By Tamar Manasseh
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Opinion Criticizing Israel While Black Means Losing Your Status As A Jew
Whenever the kids on my block used to see a white person in our neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, they would always yell out, “Tamar, someone’s looking for you!” In a place where the only white people the kids saw were either teachers or police, it was strange to see random white people…
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Opinion I’m Black And Jewish. Israel Is Not My Promised Land.
I recently received an invitation from the Consulate General of Israel in Chicago to visit Israel. I should have felt proud. I should have felt honored. I should have felt something. But I didn’t. Imagine, a trip to the Holy Land, the land promised by God to Abraham: I’d wanted to go for so long,…
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