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Orthodox reporter challenges De Blasio on NYPD ejecting Hasidic families from playgrounds
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio addressed why city police have kicked dozens of Hasidic families out of Brooklyn parks over the past several weeks, even as protesters taking to the streets over the police killing of George Floyd have been allowed to gather in public, decisions that drew fierce criticism from the Orthodox…
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Listen: How Gen Z and Millennial Jews are talking to their parents and children about George Floyd
Generation Z and Millennials, born between the early 1980s and the early 2010s, are having tough conversations with their parents, siblings, children and friends as America reckons, once again, with issues of police violence, privilege and white supremacy. They use FaceTime, Zoom, text message, email and the kitchen table. They talk about articles, news clips,…
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Rapper Ice Cube posts series of anti-Semitic memes on Twitter
The rapper Ice Cube courted controversy on Twitter Wednesday after tweeting out a series of memes linking Judaism to occult worship and implying that modern-day Jews are not descended from ancient Israelites. Related story: We need to talk about Ice Cube’s anti-Semitism allegations Ice Cube has tweeted hundreds of images and messages in support of…
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Tiny liberal group targets Sheldon Adelson’s ZOA over tweets criticizing Black Lives Matter
A member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations called Tuesday for his colleagues in the group to condemn the tweets of another member, seizing on the national outrage over racism and police brutality to spotlight a longstanding concern. Ken Bob, president of the progressive pro-Israel group Ameinu, started the campaign against…
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Tikkun olam to the Talmud, Jews double down on identity at protests
Jewish protesters are putting their own spin on the signs they carry to Black Lives Matters rallies across the country. In Brooklyn, home to the largest Jewish community in the United States, signs have included religious and secular tropes, generally sharing a common theme— invoking Jewish identity. Here are just a few of the images…
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Sylvia Glenn, 98, Painter Who Befriended Margaret Mead
BOSTON (JTA) – As a young girl, Sylvia Glenn enjoyed making chalk drawings on the sidewalk outside her family’s Brooklyn apartment. As an adult, that creative impulse led to a degree in art, professional work at national magazines (including Life) and a lifelong passion for the arts that she pursued well into her 90s. Glenn…
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Coronavirus leads to a boom for Tivnu domestic gap year
By her junior year of high school, Bella Saunders already knew that she wanted to take time off before college and apply her “skills, passions and Judaism” to a non-academic setting. But when the coronavirus pandemic disrupted her senior year at Atholton High School in Columbia, Md., the 17-year-old Saunders became even more certain of…
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Now playing on Zoom: ‘Jewish Geography’
Of all the quarantine-created phenomena – Zoom cocktails, Zoom seders, Zoom dating – here’s one you may not have heard of yet: Jewish Geography Zoom Racing. The seventh episode, which has racked up a respectable 3,000-plus views ran on Facebook Live last weekend. In it, two competitors go head-to-head. Sometimes they know each other, sometimes…
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Jewish protesters blast shofar at rallies across the country
Rabbi Ariel Stone stood at the protest with a gas mask hanging around her neck, a megaphone in one hand and a shofar in the other. Gathering with the Portland Clergy Interfaith Resistance on Sunday, Stone, a longtime human rights advocate and leader of Portland’s Congregation Shir Tikvah, called for an end to the use…
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The CEO of Holy Land hummus I know doesn’t match the social media monster
The last time I saw Majdi Wadi, the owner of the Holy Land Brands in Minneapolis, and his daughter Lianne, we had our arms around one another, on stage in a synagogue auditorium. That was four years ago. The second time we spoke was Monday afternoon, as Wadi’s world was collapsing around him. Viciously racist…
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Black leaders urge white Jews to take action
A city council member’s chief of staff recalled a walk home from school that became an involuntary trip to the police station, on suspicion of truancy. A congressman described working with the Congressional Black Congress on budget proposals — only for white colleagues to reject them every year. New York’s attorney general comforted her teenage…
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