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  I’m A Latina Jew. My People Are In Concentration Camps Today – Just Like They Were During The Holocaust

  My life is one of those classic American mixed kid stories. My mom is Latina and my dad is Jewish, so I grew up calling myself a “challah-peño.” Though I am Latina, I don’t speak Spanish natively. Many Latinx families from my mother’s generation coped with the pressures of xenophobia by assimilating linguistically. Because of…

  By Tae Phoenix

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  How Long Will Black People Have To Wait To Be Truly Liberated?

  With fresh eyes, some might argue there is less Juneteenth to celebrate in 2019 than there was in 1865. Perhaps that is true. Perhaps not: there’s a bit of selfish audaciousness in that reflection, comparing the lives of 21st century African Americans who, at least, can exercise basic freedom of movement, to the lives of…

  By Charles D. Ellison Jun 19, 2019 | 4 min read
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  Take It From A Civil Liberties Professor – Trump And Hitler Have A Lot In Common

  I hate to put Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler in the same sentence. It trivializes Hitler’s obscene crimes to compare them with Trump’s often pathetic foibles. And it understates our nation’s historic commitment to constitutional democracy to suggest a serious parallel between the twenty first century United States and 1930’s Weimar Germany. But I can’t…

  By Burt Neuborne Jun 19, 2019 | 4 min read

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  The Trump Administration’s Discriminatory Policies Are Harming The Most Vulnerable Children

  The nation’s 450,000 children in foster care all deserve loving families — but a slate of recent “religious freedom” policies threatens to make it even harder for our nation’s most vulnerable kids to find safe and loving homes. That’s why the bipartisan Every Child Deserves a Family Act — reintroduced by Reps. John Lewis and…

  By Ruth Messinger and Sandy Santana Jun 19, 2019 | 3 min read
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  It’s Time For Jews To Say Dayenu And Speak Up For African Americans

  On June 19, 1865, the Union army arrived in Galveston, Texas with big news for the thousands of human beings who were enslaved there: They were free! It’s worth noting that these folks had actually been free ever since the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on January 1, 1863, a full two and a half…

  By Tamar Manasseh Jun 19, 2019 | 3 min read
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  John Cusack Is What Happens When Anti-Semitism Becomes Convenient

  And this week’s anti-Semitism controversy comes to you courtesy of… John Cusack! Yes, here we go again: A public figure tweets something anti-Semitic, semi-apologizes, and then we move on to the next outrage. This is disgusting pic.twitter.com/4b2RlPrNfL — Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) June 17, 2019 My weary tone doesn’t mean I’m not upset by Cusack’s…

  By Keith Kahn-Harris Jun 18, 2019 | 4 min read
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  Why Juneteenth, which marks the end of slavery, should be a Jewish holiday

  For American Jewry, celebrating civic holidays “has symbolized our commitment to the American project,” writes Tema Smith

  By Tema Smith Jun 18, 2019 | 5 min read
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  Racial Justice and LGBTQ Equality Are The Same Fight. It’s A Jewish Fight.

  As Jewish leaders working for LGBTQ equality and racial justice in Jewish life, our emotions run deep this month: June marks two historical moments of liberation. Fifty years ago, LGBTQ people resisted a violent police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, sparking the start of the modern LGBT rights movement and signaling…

  By April N. Baskin and Idit Klein Jun 18, 2019 | 4 min read
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  Juneteenth offers us a day for celebration, reflection, and healing

  Genesis 15:13-14: And He said to Abram, “Know well that your offspring shall be strangers in a land not theirs, and they shall be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years; but I will execute judgment on the nation they shall serve, and in the end, they shall go free with great wealth. African-American liberation and…

  By Sandra Lawson Jun 17, 2019 | 4 min read
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  Combatting Anti-Semitism In The Classroom Should Not Fall To Jews

  We are suffering from a resurgence of hate. Almost no one is safe. People of color, immigrants, children, the LGBTQ+ community, women and Jews have all suffered under reinvigorated white nationalism. Their hate-filled rhetoric has led to horrific violence, leaving the Jewish community to wrestle with how to respond to this rising tide of anti-Semitsm….

  By Jeremy Forest Price and Elena Hatton Silverman Jun 17, 2019 | 4 min read
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  Inspiring Women | Connecting People With Opportunities, From Her Home In The West Bank

  By all rights, Iris Zangi should be a cautious person. A divorced mother of four and the survivor of not one but two terror attacks, you would expect her to be a person who is on the lookout for something bad at every turn, hesitant to open her heart. Instead, the tech entrepreneur, who works…

  By Shoshanna Keats-Jaskoll Jun 16, 2019 | 3 min read