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After student rape allegation, YU restructures office handling sexual misconduct
Months after a Yeshiva University student accused a member of its celebrated basketball team of rape and university officials of mishandling her complaint, the school has restructured its office for handling sexual harassment and assault. Undergraduate Dean Karen Bacon announced the changes in a letter to students this week, saying they had been prompted by…
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A candidate mistrusted by some in the Jewish community decries antisemitism — and apologizes
Nida Allam, a county commissioner running for Congress in a deep blue North Carolina district, has frustrated some in the Jewish community who say her criticism of Israel has crossed the line into antisemitism. But Allam — who has been billed as a potential future member of “the Squad,” the progressive cadre in the U.S….
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Roadblocks ahead as activists push for Jewish fossil fuel divestment
When Beth Sirull took over the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego five years ago, she moved quickly to offer its donors -– including local Jewish groups –- the option to put their money in a fund that “applies a Jewish lens” to its investments. That meant buying Israel bonds, bankrolling affordable housing and using…
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A Holocaust course designed for Muslim students may soon be taught at more schools
Muslim students at a New York private school are taking a course on the Holocaust designed for young followers of Islam, a project backers hope will serve as a model for other Muslim schools. An after-school elective at Brooklyn Amity School, the course has brought a dozen 16 and 17-year-olds together every other week since…
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The first Jewish senators were slaveowners. How should we reckon with their legacy?
After the Washington Post released the first complete accounting of members of Congress who owned enslaved people, the Forward ran all nine Jews who entered Congress before the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, through the database. What we found: Only two Jews on the list of more than 1,700 congresspeople — David…
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Utah company embroiled in antisemitism scandal makes ‘game changer’ donation to local synagogue
Executives at Entrata, the Utah company whose founder was ousted last week over an antisemitic screed, called on a local rabbi to help them understand the roots of their former colleague’s bigotry. Rabbi Sam Spector was met by a level of angst and a gift he did not expect on Friday. He left Entrata’s offices…
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‘Antisemitism is not a game’: Why the Senate holdup on the antisemitism envoy matters
As Senate Democrats are seeking ways to confirm the nomination of Deborah E. Lipstadt as the State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, amid Republican objection, experts are questioning whether the elevation of the position to the rank of an ambassador was worthwhile. “The important thing about this position is that there’s an…
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Lani Guinier drew on her Black and Jewish roots in a life of outspoken activism
Lani Guinier, the daughter of a white Jewish mother and Black Panamanian father whose nomination by President Clinton to head the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice was opposed by mainstream Jewish organizations, died on Friday. Guinier, who went on to become the first Black woman on the Harvard Law School faculty as…
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Lisa Colton has great big bold ideas on Jews and climate change
Lisa Colton plans to galvanize the Jewish community around climate change the same way she once sold Girl Scout cookies: with new ideas. As a scout, Colton purchased a box of each flavor cookie with her own money, cut the individual cookies into small pieces and offered them as samples. She sold more than 1,000…
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She defended disgraced author Chaim Walder. Now a revered rebbetzin is facing a backlash of her own.
The recent revelation of acclaimed children’s author Chaim Walder’s decades of sexual abuse has prompted a reckoning in the Orthodox community, or at least calls for one. It also prompted a prominent Haredi rebbetzin and scholar, Tziporah Heller, to write an impassioned Facebook post decrying those who shamed Walder and vilifying the reporter who first…
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In court for mobbing the Capitol, they compared themselves to persecuted Jews
One of the defining images of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots was a protester wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt leading the charge into the Senate chamber. Neo-Nazis and other white supremacist groups were heavily represented in the crowd that day. One insurrectionist was even dressed up as Adolf Hitler. Yet when the rioters had their…
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