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Insurgent New York primary victories could signal shift in Orthodox voting
In the middle of a once-in-a-century pandemic and historic protests over systemic racism in American society, three New York electoral districts with large Jewish communities are getting new political representation for the first time in well over a generation. The heavily Jewish Riverdale section of the Bronx as well as Rockland and Westchester Counties are…
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Portland rabbis to federal agents: Leave our community
Protesters escaping clouds of tear gas and dodging flash-bang grenades. Rifle-wielding Federal agents emerging from unmarked vans to snatch protesters off the streets and whisk them away. A Navy veteran seeking answers from unidentified agents ended up beaten and left with a broken hand. A line of mothers in street clothes wearing cycling helmetsthat are…
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Williamsburg primary upset might indicate slipping power for Hasidic leaders
The victory of an activist over a long-serving state politician might signal that there’s more support, even in a devout Brooklyn district, for secular education in religious schools than suspected. Community organizer Emily Gallagher, 36, narrowly beat Assemblyman Joe Lentol, 77, by an estimated 400 to 600 votes in the Democratic primary in the 50th…
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Jewish teens sign up as poll workers to save seniors from COVID and serve democracy
Lily Gray, a college senior from Minnesota, wants her generation to turn out at polling stations this November – not just as voters, but also as election day poll workers. “When younger people think of civic engagement, all they think about is voting, but really there’s a vast variety of opportunities that they can do,”…
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Controversy lingers after N.J. school agrees to reprint yearbook with alleged hate symbol
Facing mounting pressure from district families, a Secaucus, N.J., high school announced it will reprint a yearbook that many believe contains an Neo-Nazi hate symbol. But some students and parents at High Tech High School say the do-over isn’t enough. Instead, they’re frustrated by what they see as the district’s refusal to address the inclusion…
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Will California adopt an ethnic studies curriculum without Jews?
As California inches closer to creating a statewide Ethnic Studies curriculum for public schools, Jewish groups say their cultural history and experiences are being left out. As approval deadlines approach for finalizing a model early next year, advocates for the Jewish story are largely on the fringe and playing defense. With the four major study…
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TikTok has a Jew hatred problem. Do Jews on the app think it’s worth saving?
There’s a new song making the rounds in the Jewish corner of TikTok, the colorful video-based social media platform so beloved by tweens, teens and people in their twenties: Nicki Minaj rapping over the Hora. Since the remix was first published on the TikTok in June, the Jews of “Jewish TikTok” — a community dominated…
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A man sues a rabbi for sexual abuse — and explains why others won’t do the same
The first time Joel Engelman sued the rabbi he accused of abusing him was in 2008. He did so, despite having missed the deadline for such lawsuits, in order to name the man — Abraham Reichman — and hopefully protect other children from him. Now he’s suing again, but his reasons are slightly different: That…
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Psychedelic journeys helped Holocaust survivor George Sarlo. Now he’s helping others on their own journeys.
After his father disappeared to a forced labor camp in 1942, when George Sarlo was just 4 years old, it left a traumatic wound that would not heal for the next 70 years. Then, when he was in his 70s, Sarlo had a life-changing experience. After ingesting a psychedelic native plant in a Mexican fishing…
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews already shy away from the census. Is the pandemic making it worse?
One Haredi man in Borough Park heard a rumor that the census will be used to round up Jews if there’s another world war. A Yiddish web forum participant said Jews who fill out the census will cause plagues like swine flu and coronavirus. Another pointed out that the paper census form only has spaces…
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In tight Michigan race between Tlaib and Jones, Jews want ‘none of the above’
For some Jewish voters in Michigan’s heavily-Democratic 13th Congressional District — and there aren’t that many — the Aug. 4 Democratic primary is presenting a difficult choice. The one-term incumbent is Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American ever elected to Congress who has drawn repeated accusations of anti-Semitism for her criticism of Israel and support for…
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