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Will there be Orthodox women rabbis in Israel?
The headlines heralded what many of us have been agitating for years: Orthodox women are going to be recognized as rabbis in Israel. All over social media, Orthodox women virtually cheered, as did their allies. But that excitement after last week’s decision by Israel’s attorney general, Avichai Mandelblit, to require the rabbinate to accept women’s…
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Meet Mark Shepard, the Jewish college student who talked Stephen Jackson off the ledge of anti-Semitism
Nobody else was calling out former NBA star Stephen Jackson for publicly spewing anti-Semitic comments, so Mark Shepard, a 19-year-old college student, stepped up. “I said, ‘Dude you’re an anti-Semite’ to get his attention,” Shepard recalled Thursday in a phone interview. Jackson made his comments on Instagram Live after his friend DeSean Jackson, a star…
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‘I understand the hurt’ Stephen Jackson tells Rabbi David Wolpe
In a live-streamed conversation with prominent Conservative leader Rabbi David Wolpe, activist and basketball player Stephen Jackson walked back some of his inflammatory comments and asserted his love for Jewish people. He vowed to speak out against antisemitic rhetoric when he encounters it in the future. The conversation, which was viewed live on Instagram by…
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WATCH NOW: July 13: An Interview with Cory Booker
WATCH HERE. How can Jews best fight racism? What is next for police reform in Congress? Is Washington doing enough to contain coronavirus? What does the 2020 campaign look like for a former contender? Join Jodi Rudoren, Editor-in-Chief of the Forward, for a candid conversation with the Senator from New Jersey and former Democratic presidential…
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Beinart to Jews: It’s the democracy, stupid
This week, Jewish American commentator Peter Beinart wrote two essays promoting a one-state, bi-national solution to the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. If you don’t have time to read the 8,000-word essay in Jewish Currents, there is a Reader’s Digest version in the New York Times Op-Ed section, with the provocative headline “I No Longer Believe in a…
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Students said their yearbook contains a hate symbol. The district won’t remove it.
The things that make me different are the things that make me me. Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Stay hungry. Stay foolish. These are among the quotes students shared on the pages of the Class of 2020’s yearbook for High Tech High School in Secaucus, N.J. But one entry said simply: “88.”…
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Vindman’s resignation a ‘travesty’: Jewish leaders react with praise, concern
Many Jewish leaders expressed disappointment on social media after Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman announced his retirement from the United States Army on Wednesday. Vindman’s attorney cited a “campaign of bullying, intimidation and retaliation” conducted by allies of President Trump after he testified in Trump’s impeachment hearing. Daniel Goldman, who served as majority counsel during the…
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Are Jews ‘indigenous’ to Israel? One rabbi said ‘no’ on Twitter – and went viral.
A New York rabbi tweeted on Wednesday that Jews cannot be considered indigenous in any land, prompting a debate on Twitter over the meaning of indigenous identity and whether Jews can claim it. His tweet hit a nerve among Jews, some of whom tie their connection to Israel to extensive historical evidence of continuous Jewish…
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At USC names of racists come down, the name of an anti-Semite stays up
As a national reexamination of monuments and memorials of flawed heroes moves along, the University of Southern California has accelerated its own efforts, aimed at past leaders whose credentials may appear ugly in the spotlight of today. Prominent among potential targets: racists. Not so prominent: anti-Semites, a fact that has many on campus concerned. Already,…
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Which Jewish groups got the biggest coronavirus loans from the government — and why?
The Orthodox Union, the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, the Union of Reform Judaism, the Anti-Defamation League and Yeshivah of Flatbush are the Jewish groups that received the largest loans from the Small Business Administration’s Payroll Protection program, according to data released this week by the SBA, the federal body responsible for distributing loans…
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She posed with a swastika on her shoulder. Now she’s studied with a rabbi. Here’s what she learned.
Every day, people get their just desserts when the Internet exposes past transgressions for all to see. While public apologies are common, not everyone takes time to grapple with wrongdoing. Ryann Milligan did. In early June, photos emerged of Milligan, a 21-year-old junior at Penn State majoring in rehabilitation and human services, posing with a…
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