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LIVE UPDATES: Jews and allies gather at the Capitol to rally against antisemitism
Jews and allies from across the East Coast and beyond demonstrated Sunday afternoon in Washington against rising antisemitism and hostility toward Israel. The gathering was sponsored by the entire Jewish establishment even as a handful of influential progressive organizations declined to participate amid concerns over how the event will approach Israel. Attendees were brought to…
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A 139 percent uptick in hate crimes in NYC? Well, sort of.
A New York Post article published on July 3 that described a 139% increase in hate crimes since the same period last year generated a firestorm on social media this week. “Escape From New York was a good movie… Now it’s real life?” one person tweeted on July 5. “NYC is a criminal’s paradise,” another…
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Your weekend reads: team Israel’s American athletes, interfaith collaboration to feed the hungry, and Israel’s alternative to banks
Each week, Forward editors pick highlights from our coverage to savor over Shabbat and Sunday. You can download and print a PDF of those stories by clicking here, or click on any of the headlines below. Have a great weekend!
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Looking to follow Team Israel at the Olympics? This duo has you covered.
David Wiseman and Shari Wright-Pilo were at the 2019 Tel Aviv Grand Prix when Israeli judoka Or Sasson won the gold medal. As the press section swarmed him with cameras and rapid-fire questions in Hebrew, Wright-Pilo was recording on her phone and decided to try something. She asked the judoka, “Ori, can we have a…
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How Zionism complicated a Capitol rally against antisemitism
When Paula Bienenfeld applied for permits to hold a rally against antisemitism in Washington three months ago, she had modest aspirations. The local activist had been alarmed by the uptick in antisemitic violence during Israel’s war in Gaza in May and what she felt was a failure by major Jewish organizations to forcefully respond to…
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Broken bodies and grieving souls: A rabbi cares for the dead in Surfside
Rabbi Leibel Miller, director of the Chevra Kadisha society of Florida, has been working around the clock since the Champlain Towers South collapsed on June 24, and his body is beginning to show it. During an interview with the Forward Thursday evening, he yawned and coughed and admitted his health was faltering from a lack…
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Teachers’ unions are increasingly debating Israel — and in some places are backing boycotts
(JTA) — Public school unions in the U.S. are increasingly becoming a hotbed of Israel discourse, with the largest teachers’ union becoming the latest organized body to deliberate measures that censure Israel and support the Palestinian cause. Members of the National Education Association at the group’s annual meeting held over the weekend (with President Joe…
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Meet Benyamin Cohen: newshound, chicken owner and host of our new morning newsletter
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. And click here for a PDF of stories to savor over Shabbat and Sunday that you can download and print. When Benyamin Cohen was 5…
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In Israel, activists and families push for stiffer sentences for child sex abusers
TEL AVIV — The story is all too familiar. A child is sexually assaulted and the perpetrator either goes unpunished or gets a short prison sentence, even community service. Activists describe a vicious cycle in which victims and their families have such low expectations of the Israeli justice system’s response that victims do not even…
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With vaccines scarce at home, Central and Latin America Jews journey to the US
Samuel Hayon, a Venezuelan living in Miami, was shocked when he went to Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital to try and get the COVID-19 shot in February. “I just ran into the entire Hebraica Israeli!” he said, referring to Caracas’s Jewish community. Hayon had noticed a trend that would only grow in the coming weeks and…
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Jewish camps for kids with cancer take extraordinary precautions this summer to protect campers’ health
As the pandemic subsides, Jewish camps across the nation are taking precautions against COVID-19, and have opened for a mostly normal summer. But camps that serve children with chronic diseases and disabilities, who may be particularly vulnerable to COVID, have had to be extraordinarily careful to protect their campers — even if it means postponing…
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