In a letter to the community posted on Facebook, the owner of Holy Land Deli announced he fired his daughter for a string of racist tweets and Instagram posts that screenshots show date back to at least 2012. In response, Midtown Global Market, where Holy Land has a location, announced Thursday that it was exercising…
The Anti-Defamation League has hired a longtime FBI official as its new vice president of Law Enforcement and Analysis. Greg Ehrie, who served 22 years with the FBI, is organizing partnerships with law enforcement offices across the U.S. He spent a year in Israel for the FBI and led the FBI’s Newark office last December…
With the passage and signing of the Never Again Education Act, the federal government is funding Holocaust education for the first time. As asserted in the very name of the law, the politicians and Jewish organizations who supported the bill and hailed its recent signing by President Trump say education can actually help prevent violent…
In the fortnight since George Floyd perished under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, Britain has been swept by an anger to which large sections of the population are not accustomed. As in every other country in the western world, people have taken to the streets here to demonstrate against racism and police violence….
“This is such a blessing. I’ve been here through riots and we had different uprisings and different things that went on in the Crown Heights community between Blacks and Jews. This to me is, I’m almost choked,” said Felicia Gomes, 55, a lifelong Crown Heights resident after stumbling upon a Black Lives Matter solidarity march…
After yet another police killing of an unarmed black man, protesters across the United States are demanding criminal justice reform on behalf of George Floyd and others who have died at the hands of law enforcement. Organizations and activists are mobilizing on several fronts. They’re working to protect the protesters, to reform policing, to change…
The Jews of Los Angeles are not under siege– though some media outlets would have you believe otherwise. Local synagogues, day schools, and Jewish-owned businesses are facing thousands of dollars worth of repairs after vandalism that occurred during the protests over the killing George Floyd. But, officials from the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles and…
What now? The protests following the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd have been infused with hope and fraught with danger. They could result in increased justice, or more injustice. Craig Futterman and Adam Gross, two lawyers in Chicago’s Jewish community, are trying to tip the balance toward the brighter side as they tackle the…
A crowd of police in riot gear marched down Crown Heights’ Eastern Parkway one day this week to applause and salutes from some of the neighborhood’s Haredi residents. Another day, amid another Black Lives Matter protest, a Jewish man with side curls offered the throng in Williamsburg a double thumbs-up. Over on Williamsburgh’s Bedford and…
Jason Rosenberg went out Tuesday night to protest in New York City. He returned home Wednesday morning with staples in his head, a broken arm and a summons. A program manager at the 92nd Street Y and an activist with ACT UP, he’s now trying to heal and considering legal action against the NYPD. This…
Updated June 8 The American Israel Public Affairs Committee released a public statement about the killing of George Floyd on Sunday, after more than a week of internal and then public outrage from volunteers and current and former employees over its silence on the issue up to that point. “On the eve of George Floyd’s…
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