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Mostly ignored, Jews of color turn to special fund for COVID relief
Editor’s note: In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Forward is resurfacing some of our recent coverage related to the Black-Jewish experience and racial justice. This article originally appeared in August, 2020. Some are trans Jews of color on the brink of homelessness. One is an African-American man who worked at a Jewish…
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Nick Cannon and Public Enemy’s Professor Griff were both called antisemitic. Only one recovered.
Editor’s note: In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Forward is resurfacing some of our recent coverage related to the Black-Jewish experience and racial justice. This article originally appeared in September, 2020. In 1989, the rapper known as Professor Griff made anti-Jewish comments that derailed his career. More than 30 years later, when…
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Joe Biden’s rabbi and Mrs. Maisel’s are two of the 635 who have blessed Congress. Here’s what some had to say.
Two clergy members are slated to speak at President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony next week: a priest, reflecting his Catholic faith, and an African Methodist Episcopal minister from his hometown, Wilmington, Delaware. Not on the list: Rabbi Michael Beals, who Biden has called his rabbi — or any other rabbi. This is not exactly a…
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Cal State Northridge students pass resolution against antisemitism
Jonathan Hay, a junior at California State University, Northridge said his campus has not experienced any major antisemitic activities in recent years. The 4,000 Jewish students and faculty at CSUN have escaped the kinds of rhetorical and violent incidents that have disrupted other schools, synagogues and centers of Jewish life. “Friends told me about what…
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Meet the Black-Jewish American para-athlete teaching Arabs and Jews to play together
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, closing down life across large swathes of the country, 27-year old Jovan Booker, an African-American para-athlete, decided to pick up and fly to Israel to coach youth basketball. In many ways, it was a natural move for the young graduate student at Hofstra University who, despite always…
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Racial justice and the path to redemption: A conversation with Bryan Stevenson and Rabbi Sharon Brous
After many years of following Bryan Stevenson’s writing and work, I met him a few years ago when he came to speak with some folks in L.A. about his newest project, the Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. As the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative,…
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Chicago music critic Howard Reich avoided writing about his family and the Holocaust until it became his calling
The moment that crystallized Howard Reich’s future in music, writing and Judaism occurred when, as a 16-year-old living in the largely Jewish Chicago suburb of Skokie, Ill., he found the 1951 Best-Picture winning musical “An American in Paris” showing on the family TV. George Gershwin, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, wrote the film’s music,…
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Is Gab’s leadership as antisemitic as its users?
After the Anti-Defamation League published an open letter asking the federal government to investigate the self-described “free speech” social media platform Gab — which hosted the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter — for its possible role in the Jan. 6 Capitol siege, Gab’s response letter included an unusual sign-off. “We will never bend to their demands and…
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Sheldon Adelson leaves behind a Jewish philanthropic empire. What’s next?
Love him or hate him, Sheldon Adelson’s impact on the Jewish nonprofit world cannot be overstated. Adelson, the casino magnate who died Tuesday at 87 of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, is best known as the top political contributor in the country, donating more than $218 million to Republican campaigns in the 2020 election cycle alone. But he…
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Is Liz Cheney the last best hope to stop GOP extremism?
After Liz Cheney became the first prominent Republican to announce her intention to vote for President Donald Trump’s impeachment Tuesday, many of her constituents lit up with anger. Emails poured into Wyoming lawmakers demanding the right to recall Cheney, the state’s lone representative in the U.S. House, where she also drew fire from her colleagues….
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Biden’s Deputy AG touts record on antisemitism amid criticism of her college activity
Kristen Clarke, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for assistant attorney general for civil rights, responded on Wednesday night to recent criticism of her past comments about racial superiority and her role while a student at Harvard University in organizing a 1994 event that featured antisemitic comments by a controversial professor. She said it “was a mistake”…
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