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Mayor Says Jews Pressured Civil Rights Museum Into Scrapping Award For Angela Davis
Birmingham, Alabama’s mayor says that protests from the “local Jewish community” led to the cancellation of an award ceremony for a controversial civil rights icon. But questions remain about what role local Jewish leaders played played. In a statement Saturday night, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, a museum focusing on the history of segregation and…
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For Rabbis, Whichever Days They Get Off Are The Sacred Ones
“Everybody’s working for the weekend,” as the song goes. Except rabbis. They work on the weekend. Friday nights are for evening services and hosting guests at home. On Saturdays, the rabbi is at synagogue by 8 or 8:30 a.m. for the main event of his or her week: Shabbat services, with Torah reading. Sunday morning…
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Jewish Charities Step In With Loans As Federal Workers Feel Shutdown’s Pinch
When the federal government shut down in late 1995, leaving federal workers without paychecks for nearly a month, Fran Kritz and her family worried that they could lose their home. “We had a new baby and a toddler,” said Kritz, whose husband is a federal employee. “We had no extra money. At that point in…
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Tamika Mallory Irks North Carolina Jews With MLK Day Speech In Asheville
Members of the Jewish community in Asheville, North Carolina are angry that a local university has invited Women’s March co-president Tamika Mallory to be the main speaker for this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. week activities. “I was greatly dismayed that Dr. King’s legacy would be tainted by having Ms. Mallory, who is a friend…
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Even Proud Zionist Students Think This Hillel Is Way Too Focused On Israel
When Ben Novak arrived at Northeastern University in Boston as a first-year student in the fall of 2016, he went looking for a place to pray, and meet other Jews. So naturally, he turned to the local Hillel. But a few months later, the Hillel descended into chaos amid complaints from students that it was…
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Hebrew Israelite Synagogue Pleads For Rebuilding Help — From Mainstream Jewry
At B’nai Adath Kol Beth Israel, a Hebrew Israelite congregation in Brooklyn, the rabbis have long doubled as handymen. They’ve fixed plumbing problems and frayed electrical wiring. Thirty years ago, they bought filtration masks and hazmat suits and replaced the asbestos-laden piping in the building. “We made it work,” said Rabbi Baruch Yehudah, the spiritual…
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When Jewish Leaders Decide To Harass College Kids — To ‘Support’ Israel
In June of 2015, one of the leading intellectuals of the Jewish establishment stood on stage in front of hundreds of American Jewish leaders and called for the community to picket outside the home of a college junior. It was the keynote speech at the American Jewish Committee’s annual conference in a year when the…
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Orthodox Panic Over Yeshiva Rules As New York Democrats Grab Reins
In the final weeks of 2018, New York’s Orthodox Jewish community went into full-blown panic mode. One Orthodox newspaper in Brooklyn, the Flatbush Jewish Journal, ran the screaming front-page headline “ATTACK ON OUR YESHIVAS!” in red, inch-high letters. “The Jewish people will not bow down or surrender to the wicked, not even before the commissioner…
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Catching Up With Amos Oz, An Urbane Rebel Of The Holy Land
Amos Oz greets me in the lobby of an elegant hotel, looking a little out of place. Like one of the characters in his new book, he is undramatically unkempt: glasses slightly askew; his gray pants and scruffy shoes melding into the background, as if he were a bus driver or a shopkeeper, someone who…
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New San Francisco Community Space Sees Protests Because Owner Is A ‘Zionist’
Manny’s, a new business in San Francisco’s Mission District, is part cafe, part bookstore, part political event hall. Owner Manny Yekutiel, a 29-year-old rising star in the world of liberal political organizing, calls it a “civic social gathering space.” It’s hosted incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, activists with Black Lives…
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Baltimore Rabbi Expelled By Reform Rabbinic Group Amid Sex Misconduct Probe
The former senior rabbi of a historic Reform synagogue in Baltimore has been expelled by the movement’s rabbinical association two months after being fired by the board for over unspecified allegations of the movement’s ethical code, Rabbi Steven Fink was fired in October after the members of Temple Oheb Shalom, a large, 165-year-old community, voted…
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