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Searching for kosher food in Iraq — and other tales from a Hasidic travel blogger
Shloime Zionce, with his black yarmulke and long peyot, would not draw a second glance on the streets of Brooklyn or Jerusalem. In Beirut, Bogota or Kabul, it’s a different story. But that’s exactly where he’s been going, sharing his journey with his tens of thousands of YouTube followers along the way, attempting to show…
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Charlottesville trial to start Monday with Lipstadt as key witness
When the trial of two dozen alt-right organizers of the “Unite the Right” rally begins in Charlottesville on Monday, Jews, among those targeted in the extremist gathering, will be watching closely. But they are also key players in the case. One of the lead lawyers for the plaintiff is Roberta Kaplan, a feminist who has…
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‘Go do journalism’: How the nonprofit investigative newsroom Shomrim is changing Israel
This is an adaptation of Looking Forward, a weekly email from our editor-in-chief sent on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. Twelve million documents. More than 40,000 mentions of the word “Israel.” Some 565 Israeli politicians and executives implicated in possibly nefarious deals. Ten blockbuster stories…
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After speaking with Jewish leaders, Sunrise Movement calls Zionist boycott ‘antisemitic’
The Sunrise Movement called its D.C. chapter’s boycott of three Jewish, Zionist organizations “antisemitic and unacceptable” in a statement Friday. Those comments came after the national organization’s previous comments on the local boycott were assailed as insufficient by the Jewish groups involved. “Sunrise DC’s statement and actions are not in line with our values,” the…
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I visited a tiny home village for the homeless. Why aren’t there more of them?
There are 115 tiny homes along the Arroyo Grande Freeway between Pasadena and Los Angeles that weren’t there a month ago. Each took 90 minutes to build, and together they will soon offer 230 unhoused people immediate shelter, food, and health and occupational services. Oh, and there’s an off-leash area and free veterinary care for…
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Jewish youth group gets swept into vaccine mandate debate
The mandate from the headquarters of Conservative Judaism’s youth movement is clear: the unvaccinated can’t participate in national and regional events. But that requirement conflicts with anti-mandate laws of a dozen states, including Florida, Texas and Georgia. The result for hundreds of United Synagogue Youth staff and teens caught in the middle ranges from confusion…
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Who are Chicago Jews, and what do they want? The results are in.
Amid many gloomy predictions that American Jewry is shrinking, disengaging and assimilating, comes bracing news from Chicago: um, maybe not. A just-released Chicago Jewish population study — the largest one ever — found that the community is instead growing and diversifying: • The study shows that the Jewish population in Chicago is nearly 320,000, an…
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Sunrise Movement distances itself from boycott of Zionist groups
The Sunrise Movement, best known for its support for the Green New Deal, distanced itself Thursday from its Washington, D.C. chapter’s boycott of a rally that included three Zionist Jewish groups. “As a national movement that supports freedom and dignity for all people, we will always welcome anyone who acts on our principles and chooses…
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Environmental group boycotts voting rights rally over inclusion of Zionist groups
Update: The national Sunrise Movement distanced itself from its D.C. chapter on Thursday, but stopped short of condemning the boycott. The D.C. chapter of the environmentalist Sunrise Movement is declining to participate in a voting rights rally in Washington because three pro-Israel Jewish groups are included: the Jewish Council on Public Affairs, the National Council…
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Rabbis are fighting vaccine battles, pandemic fatigue — and a new set of mental health challenges
Rabbi Jason Weiner, the senior rabbi at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, found himself on the front lines of the COVID-19 surge in Los Angeles in January. He still remembers the pain he felt when praying in the hospital rooms of those who had died from COVID, as body bags piled up in the hospital morgue….
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Appeals court rules for Jewish prisoners: Let them eat cheesecake
Jewish inmates who request cheesecake for Shavuot must get it. That’s what a three-judge federal appeals court panel unanimously ruled last week in a lawsuit filed by two Jewish prisoners who held that the vegan meals the Michigan Department of Corrections served them did not fulfill their kosher dietary needs. Cheesecake was not in the…
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