Jewish community tensions over the Durham, North Carolina city council’s April vote to ban police officers from educational programs in Israel spilled over last week after police escorted two members of the group Jewish Voice for Peace out of the Jewish Community Center when they tried to hand out flyers criticizing local Jewish leaders. The…
The Reform movement’s rabbinical association censured the rabbi of a Durham, North Carolina synagogue after receiving a complaint that was “sexual in nature,” but didn’t tell his congregation, spurring a watchdog group to demand that the movement be more forthcoming about accusations of sexual wrongdoing against its clergy. “It’s kind of shocking,” said Shulamit Magnus,…
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic and white supremacist posters were removed from downtown Durham, North Carolina near the Duke University campus. City workers removed the posters on Monday, the local Herald Sun newspaper reported. One of the posters showed a silhouetted man pointing a gun at an image of a bearded man with a long nose, wearing…
Anti-Semitic posters were found Monday at Duke University and elsewhere in the city of Durham, North Carolina. One poster depicted a figure pointing a gun at a stereotypical Jewish man with a beard, long nose and yarmulke who had tentacles wrapped around the earth, the Herald-Sun newspaper reported. “Right of revolution,” the poster says. “Your…
(JTA) — The City Council in Durham, North Carolina, has voted unanimously to bar the city’s police department from international exchanges in which the officers receive “military-style training” in a slap at such programs held with the Israeli army and police. The resolution, which states that the council “opposes international exchanges with any country in…
Hundreds of people swarmed the streets of Durham, North Carolina on Friday to protest a Ku Klux Klan rally rumored to be scheduled for later that afternoon. A tweet posted from the city of Durham’s Twitter account said Durham police have not issued an event permit for any group on Friday, and encouraged people to…
(JTA) — A Jewish day school in Durham, North Carolina, was evacuated after a receiving a bomb threat. Parents of students at the Lerner Jewish Community Day School were informed of the threat by a robocall from the school on Wednesday morning, according to reports. Video from the school showed officers using a bomb-sniffing dog…
Durham, N.C. is not an easy place to be a non-conformist. It is the home of Duke University, notorious for its male lacrosse team’s behaving badly and its “Cameron Crazies,” obsessed basketball fans. Even in January 2011, when the Durham public schools need to make up a snow day, school is scheduled for Saturday, Jewish…
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