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Remembering Sam Nahem, the Syrian Jew who integrated military baseball
Long before Black Lives Matter, there was the End Jim Crow in Baseball movement. For more than a decade before Jackie Robinson broke the sport’s color line in 1947, black newspapers, civil rights groups, progressive white activists and unions, the Communist Party, and radical politicians waged a sustained protest campaign to integrate the national pastime….
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If Trump wins re-election—or loses— expect more right-wing violence, experts warn
If Donald Trump is reelected president, expect more violence from white nationalists and far-right extremist groups. If he is not reelected, expect more violence as well. That’s the depressing forecast from numerous experts who monitor US-based extremist groups. “Should he win, they will feel increasingly empowered,” said Ken Stern, director of the Bard Center for…
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Synagogue vandal in Racine, Wis. called it ‘Operation Kristallnacht’
The trial of a young man accused of vandalizing a synagogue has revealed the thought process behind a neo-Nazi group’s decision last fall to accelerate its activities. Yousef Omar Barasneh, 22, a member of the group known as the Base, pleaded guilty last month to spray-painting anti-Semitic messages and swastikas on the walls of the…
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Jewish caucus inserts anti-bias ‘guardrails’ into California ethnic studies law
On Monday, California took a major step toward becoming the first state in the country to mandate completion of an ethnic studies course as a requirement for high school graduation. Assembly Bill 331, which will require all public high schools (including charter schools) to offer the course by 2025 and will make ethnic studies a…
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How these couples solved the pandemic Jewish wedding dilemma: to wed or wait?
Ariel Platt and Lilli Flink, who met at Columbia University and now live in Philadelphia, both cried as they sent out an email this spring telling some 300-plus friends and family they were postponing their Labor Day wedding until 2021. It was not a decision they came to easily. In addition to the wedding, there…
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Their beloved Chabad house destroyed, University of Delaware students vow to rebuild, bigger
Jewish students at the University of Delaware whose Chabad house went up in flames have made their fundraising and rebuilding goals more ambitious after an initial success. In less than a week, their GoFundMe raised more than $500,000 to rebuild what they called the “little blue house,” which was destroyed in a possible act of…
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U.S. Surgeon General exhorts Orthodox rabbis to keep their communities safe during the High Holidays
If you’re sitting in the front row of a synagogue holding in-person services this year on the High Holidays, make sure there is plenty of distance — or, even better, a piece of plexiglass— between you and the shofar blower. That’s one of the things the hundreds of rabbis learned on a Sep. 1 call…
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Portland’s Jews know their state’s racist history. Now the chaos has some beefing up security.
No one knows better than Portland, Ore.’s Jewish community that their state has a history of racist hate — indeed, that it was founded by white supremacists. As the state grew, it evolved into a place of extremes on both left and right. Now, those groups are confronting each other directly, on a daily basis,…
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Bradley Fields, 68, Renowned Magician Who Studied Talmud And Taught Math To Kids
(JTA) — Bradley Fields once performed a memorable magic show for the kids at his synagogue in which he levitated the rabbi’s school-aged daughter in the sanctuary. The audience was spellbound. “Everyone was in awe,” said Shmuel Herzfeld, the rabbi at Ohev Sholom in Washington, D.C., where Fields was a regular at the daily prayer…
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In Los Angeles, Israelis rally for Trump
Hundreds of Israelis and Israeli-Americans paraded by car, waving flags and honking horns, to show their support for President Donald Trump. Close to 2,000 people participated in the pro-Trump rally on Aug. 30 in Los Angeles. The rally, which started at Taft High School in Woodland Hills and ended at Jerry’s Famous Deli in Studio…
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Emiratis say their deal with Israel will be good for Palestinians, too — eventually
There are still plenty of critics of the historic deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, but the one place you won’t find many of them is in the UAE. People here have by and large embraced the bilateral “Abraham Accord,” which was signed Aug. 13 and consummated, symbolically at least, on Aug. 31,…
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