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East Ramapo Monitors See Progress in Orthodox-Dominated School District — Ask for More Time
State-appointed monitors assigned to the troubled East Ramapo School District in Rockland County, New York, issued a report today calling for $3 million in state aid to the district — and for continued on-the-ground monitoring next year. “The State has a duty not to turn its back on the children of East Ramapo and must…
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Photographer Steve Schapiro Recalls Shooting the Images That Marked the Civil Rights Era
In 1963, Steve Schapiro was one of 14 photographers Life magazine sent to cover the March for Jobs and Freedom on Washington, which would go down in history as the gathering where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. At the time, he didn’t know it would be historic. The most…
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Trump Puts Jerusalem Embassy Move on Back Burner — Why Is Right Wing Not Howling?
Jewish activists are eager to see President Donald Trump make good on his promise to move the United States embassy to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem. But his administration has put the move on the back burner even as it has been quick to take other dramatic actions relating to trade and healthcare. “There’s no decision,” White…
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4 Great Nazi Punchers in History
The anonymous slugger who punched the white nationalist leader Richard Spencer in the face on Friday revived an age-old dilemma: Is it cool to punch Nazis? While Spencer himself denies being a neo-Nazi, the act of punching him calls to mind America’s long history of Nazi-punchers. In the interest of providing context for this debate,…
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Is This Orthodox Rabbi Breaking Jewish Tradition With Anti-Trump Prayer?
(JTA) — Jews have been praying for the welfare of the governments they live under for hundreds of years. But what happens when they lose faith in the individuals elected to lead those countries? That’s the dilemma faced by Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, an Orthodox rabbi who is president and dean of Valley Beit Midrash in Phoenix and founder and president of Uri…
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With Overwhelming Support, Jews Join Sprawling Women’s March Against Trump
The magnitude of the Women’s March on Washington took Jewish participants, like many others, by surprise. Organized groups of Jewish protestors had planned to meet on a street corner not far from the rally’s staging point and march together with the rest of the huge throng. But as they got closer to the National Mall,…
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Protesting on Shabbat? Not as Easy as it Looks
Steven Philp, a rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary, walked four miles from his home in Washington Heights to the Upper West Side on Saturday morning to join the massive citywide protest against President Donald Trump. For observant Jews like Philp, the protest, planned for a Saturday, posed particular challenges, as observant Jews refrain…
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How the Women’s March Found Its Distinctly Jewish Voice
As a thousand people crammed into the ornate, cavernous sanctuary of B’nai Jeshurun on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and another 400 waited patiently in a line that extended around the block, it was clear that today’s protest organized by women against President Donald Trump had found a distinctly Jewish voice. Soulful niggunim, those timeless melodies…
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BREAKING: Jews March, Bearing Signs Playful, Solemn and Defiant
“I am here because Women’s rights are humans rights,” said Rachel, 59, (left), who came to the Washington, D.C. march with a big group of Jewish women. The Metro trains into Washington, D.C. from the suburbs were packed with pink pussy hats. Friends smile as the crowd gathers at the Women’s March on Washington, the…
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Jews Spoke at Trump’s Inauguration. The ‘Alt-Right’ Is Not Happy.
For the white nationalist “alt-right” that reveled in Donald Trump’s win, the two Jews who took the podium during his swearing-in were the agents of a foreign and anti-white agenda. “Chuck Schumer is speaking,” tweeted Richard Spencer, head of the white nationalist National Policy Institute. “It’s generous of Trump to allow a representative of a…
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Trump’s ‘America First’ Leaves Jewish Groups Hesitant
Donald Trump’s inaugural speech, tipped with a promise to put “America First,” was a verbal shrug to Jewish groups who pointed out its anti-Semitic connotations. But most leaders in Jewish organizations were cautious in their response to Trump’s Friday address. “We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city,…
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