Springfield, Ohio, rabbi will meet with local Haitian leaders after disparaging community
Cary Kozberg is the only rabbi in a city at the epicenter of right-wing anti-immigrant rhetoric
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Politics Springfield, Ohio, rabbi uses racist stereotypes to describe Haitian migrants
Other members of Springfield's community declined to speak to the press
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Politics Jews are commanded to love the convert. What about the immigrant?
Right-wing libels against Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, should have Jews up in arms
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Politics Republican rhetoric about immigrants violates a core Jewish principle
Lashon hara — speech that degrades others — is verboten in Jewish law. But it shapes our public discourse
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News Exclusive: Mexico’s new Jewish president has not been telling the truth about her family’s Holocaust story
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Fast Forward Some Jewish groups protest Biden’s executive order on immigration, but others are staying silent
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