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 June, 2020. In the summer of 2010, Yitz Jordan, a hip-hop artist and activist, and Shais Rishon, an Orthodox rabbi and writer, attended…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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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