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Remembering Professor Ruth Gavison, scholar, activist, and friend
This past Saturday saw the untimely passing of Professor Ruth Gavison z”l, one of Israel’s leading intellectuals and legal minds, at the age of 75. Ruth Gavison was the rarest of individuals: a searingly brilliant legal theorist and a deeply engaged citizen in the life of her country, a person with little patience for small…
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‘Holohoax’ term is trending, but hate speech policies can help fight anti-Semitism online: report
More stringent hate speech policies on online platforms can reduce the visibility of anti-Semitic and Holocaust-denying content, says a new report published by The Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London-based think tank, on Sunday. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue argues that Holocaust denial — the mitigation or rejection of realities faced by Jews during the…
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Colleges express outrage about anti-Semitism— but fail to report it as a crime
Binghamton University in upstate New York is known as one of the top colleges for Jewish life in the United States. A quarter of the student population identifies as Jewish. Kosher food is on the meal plan. There are five historically-Jewish Greek chapters and a Jewish a capella group, Kaskeset. When a swastika was drawn…
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These colleges claimed antisemitic incidents weren’t hate crimes
As part of its investigation into universities’ compliance with the Clery Act, the Forward created this list of antisemitic incidents between 2016-2018 that conceivably fit the criteria for inclusion in a school’s Annual Security and Fire Safety Report as a hate crime motivated by religious bias, but were not listed there. The list of incidents…
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Chicago Jewish schools make plans to open— and experience an enrollment boomlet
Reopening is close at hand for Chicago’s Jewish day schools, after-school programs, and public school Hebrew language departments. This means devising plans that meet parent’s safety expectations, local health regulations, and teacher safety needs— all while delivering quality instruction. The result, so far, is a diverse landscape of reopening plans, including increased enrollment in Jewish…
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The frustration, hope and diversity of Minneapolis’ Black Jews
White Minnesotans liked to think their state was a progressive paradise — until it became the birthplace of America’s most powerful reckoning over racism since the Civil Rights era. Having been born and raised there myself, I grew up with the myth of Minnesotan exceptionalism: The state has welcomed immigrant communities from around the world….
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In Florida, Democrats focus on coronavirus, Republicans on Israel
The Villages is a sprawling Florida retirement community about halfway between Orlando and Gainesville. It has a small Jewish population, and its residents tend to lean Republican. But Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign is thinking that this year, it might be able to win them over. A Biden commercial, featuring a Village resident disturbed…
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Female candidate for top job at JDC steps back after public takedown some call sexist
Just about a year ago, an open letter on a website that covers Jewish non-profits outlined the plight of women who build careers in the Jewish world only to find themselves sidelined when it comes to assuming leadership roles. Signed by over 500 female Jewish professionals, the letter pinpointed an urgent problem and provided a…
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Facebook banned stereotypes of Jewish global domination. Has the move satisfied Jewish groups?
What finally pushed Facebook to announce it would take down posts that make reference to Jewish control of the world, or that include “caricatures of black people in the form of blackface” — two forms of hate that are well over a century old? Was it the letter, sent August 5, from the attorneys general…
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The story of how Doug Emhoff wooed Kamala Harris
It was a blind date that brought Kamala Harris together with her Jewish husband Doug Emhoff — a set-up arranged by her best friend, Chrisette Hudlin, a public relations consultant. In her memoir, The Truths We Hold, Harris recounts how secretive she tried to be about her dating life, as attorney-general of California. “As a…
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Jewish schools in suburbs see increased interest due to coronavirus
Bari Klein, her husband and two young children left their apartment in lower Manhattan during the second week of March, swapping the city for the perceived safety of the suburbs as the coronavirus pandemic hit New York City. “We didn’t want to be isolated in an apartment with a family,” she said. Now, they’ve decided…
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