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‘Believe Us’: Black Jews respond to the George Floyd protests
(JTA) — As Enzi Tanner participated in an online havdalah ceremony marking the end of Shabbat Saturday night, his city — Minneapolis — was being torn apart during a fifth night of unrest following the death of George Floyd, a black man, in police custody there last week. Tanner, a social worker who supports LGBT…
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What the old Jewish radical taught me about George Floyd
It was weird, frankly, waking up on Sunday to a still, beautiful morning. The downtown L.A. streets that were inflamed by protests and riot police the night before were clamped shut by waves of uniformed National Guards. Cops and clean up crews made their way through the debris at Beverly Blvd. and Fairfax Ave., where…
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In Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, protests leave behind destruction
At 6 a.m. on Sunday morning, building security alarms were still ringing at retail establishments in the affluent Los Angeles neighborhood around the Beverly Center, where the night before, what began as a peaceful protest for racial justice took a darker turn into destruction, looting and vandalism. LAPD had cordoned off the hardest-hit areas, including…
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Black Lives Matter protests in Los Angeles tear through Jewish neighborhood
After protests that stemmed from the death of George Floyd descended into violence, vandalism and looting tore through Los Angeles on Saturday, sweeping a number of Jewish businesses and synagogues into the wake of destruction. L.A. this morning. #laprotest https://t.co/qC39IYK2QS pic.twitter.com/6se6M5Wyv3 — Johnny Kunza (@johnkunza) May 31, 2020 The day started peacefully, with thousands of…
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Letter from Minneapolis: ‘I did what I could today’
Boots on the ground the last few hours, and the scene is more devastating and horrific than you can imagine from the photos. Today I walked for miles offering help, cleaning and bandaging cuts, handing out gloves, masks, water. Offering support to the first responders, firefighters still out there fighting flames with no sleep and…
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Minnesota Jewish Leaders Speak Out On Death Of George Floyd
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey condemned the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department at a press conference Tuesday morning. Floyd, an African-American died Monday evening after a white police officer knelt on his neck outside a store at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue South. Video captured Floyd telling the officers…
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Meet the (Jewish) mayor in the middle of the Minneapolis maelstrom
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey is at the center of the country’s most dire protests in years. Following the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man arrested for apparently trying to make a purchase with a counterfeit bill, thousands of people have looted and burned buildings in Minneapolis and St. Paul, including a police…
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Two marquee Reform synagogues are in merger talks – and they won’t be the last
Two historic Reform synagogues in New York announced Thursday that they are entering merger talks. One is embroiled in a financial crisis made more pressing by the pandemic; the other is growing, but faces a $2 million shortfall due to the economic impact of the coronavirus. In email messages sent to their congregations Thursday afternoon,…
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Despite governor’s green light, California synagogues will mostly stay closed
Despite Gov. Gavin Newsom’s green light for houses of worship to reopen, the vast majority of California synagogues decided not to have in-person services on Friday for the Shavuot holiday, according to rabbis from around the state and across denominations. A handful of smaller Orthodox synagogues either have opened or will do so this weekend….
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Letter from Minneapolis: Why I’m marching for George Floyd
On Monday night, Minneapolis witnessed a lynching. A white police officer murdered George Floyd, and the video left no doubt of what had happened. It’s not the first time this had happened here, but something about this murder seems to be moving through the city in a different way. Maybe it’s because of a pandemic…
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Kosher to treyf, and back again: all in a day for Fairway’s bakery
It was a baked goods bombshell. On Tuesday morning, kosher-keeping Manhattanites woke up to learn that bakery items at Fairway, a beloved and beleaguered supermarket chain under new ownership after filing for bankruptcy, were no longer kosher — effective immediately. “Oy…. the Rugelach there were the best. So sad,” posted one customer on Facebook. And…
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