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Black Jews to white Jews: Change your relationship with police
At protests across the country, marchers are holding up signs that read “Defund The Police.” On Tuesday, numerous celebrities, as well as the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, signed an open letter circulated by the national Movement 4 Black Lives group calling for money to be diverted from police budgets to fund…
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This isn’t the first time Trump has used the Bible as a prop
When President Donald Trump held a Bible aloft — and upside-down — in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church on Monday night, it was just the latest example of how he and his religious supporters have used the holy book as both a crutch for support and a cudgel to attack opponents. In this case,…
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Nightfall brings curfews — and fear of going to the mikveh
Sunday night was mikveh night for C., an Orthodox Jewish woman in Manhattan — it was time for her monthly immersion in the ritual bath. The practice is a foundational part of the Orthodox Jewish family, allowing husbands and wives to resume sexual activity after a woman’s menstrual period. But C. — who asked that…
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Carolyn Becker, 83, Was Looking Forward To Life’s Next Chapter
BOSTON (JTA) – In February, Carolyn Becker was getting ready to embrace a new chapter in her life. Just three months earlier, the 83-year-old’s husband of 59 years had died, but Becker was determined to follow through on their plans to move to the Washington, D.C. area to be closer to her son. She visited…
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The police have a white nationalist problem — and have for at least 15 years
Experts are concerned that white nationalists have infiltrated some of the protests flaring in cities across the country in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death — but they know for certain that white nationalists have infiltrated the police. And they’ve known it for at least 15 years, which is how long federal officials and media…
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Mayor Eric Garcetti on the George Floyd protests: ‘This is a Jewish struggle’
As protests over racial injustice stretched into another day under the shadow of the enduring coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles encouraged the city’s Jewish community to increase efforts to address the underlying causes of a fracturing American society. “Be brave. Step up. Step out. Do something. Listen. Learn. Hope. Love. Our current…
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This is what democracy looks like
When 17 students and teachers were gunned down in a school in Parkland, Fla., two years ago, it felt as if it had happened in our backyard. Our kids were only 6 and 7 at the time, but we quickly gave up on hiding what had happened: Parkland is like Greater Boca; there were kids…
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Remembering Steven M. Lowenstein, prominent Jewish historian
The prominent Jewish historian, Steven M. Lowenstein, passed away at his home in Los Angeles after a ten-month struggle with pancreatic cancer. He had largely completed a massive scholarly project on which he had been working for decades: a 731-page study of the demographic history of German Jewry. This alone would stand as a remarkable…
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‘Dialogue is needed:’ An L.A. city council member speaks out after the protests
Apart from areas of downtown, no other part of Los Angeles has suffered so grievously in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis as the Fifth City Council District. “We have a lot of white people in my district and we have a lot of businesses, some of them high-value targets; there was good…
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‘Palestinian Lives Matter’ trope resurfaces amid George Floyd protests
Online outcry in the aftermath of the killing of an unarmed black man by a Minneapolis police officer has seen a smattering of protesters comparing American police brutality to the killings of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers — a return to rhetoric common in the early days of the Black Lives Matter movement. Singer and model…
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New fund offers financial grants to Jews of color in dire need due to pandemic
An organization dedicated to supporting and advocating for Jews of color has opened a COVID-19 emergency relief fund, citing the ways in which racism amplifies the impact of the coronavirus on people of color. A project of the Jews of Color Field Building Initiative, the fund will provide grants of between $250 and $2,500 to…
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