Hundreds of people holding purple placards with messages including “This is what ‘Never Again’ looks like,” gathered outside the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in lower Manhattan Thursday evening to protest President Donald Trump’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy. The protest — organized by T’ruah and co-sponsored by groups including J Street NYC and Bend the…
When Sala Kirschner, formerly Sala Garncarz, was separated from her family in the midst of the Holocaust, she did not know when she would see them again. Kirschner and her family were stuck in a Jewish ghetto in occupied southwestern Poland’s Sosnowiec when Kirschner’s older sister, Raizel, was conscripted to work by the Germans. Kirschner…
NEW YORK (JTA) — A group of 10 rabbis has traveled to Texas to examine detention facilities for separated families on the border. The group, which is aiming to visit the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Centralized Processing Center on Thursday, includes rabbis from all four major Jewish religious movements and is part of a…
First Lady Melania Trump loves a good coat. To her husband’s inauguration, she wore a powder blue Ralph Lauren suit coat. In Italy, she chose a colorful Dolce & Gabanna jacket. She is known for draping coats imperiously over her shoulders — for this she likes Calvin Klein, Stella McCartney, Delpozo, Gucci, and Givenchy. It’s…
Hundreds of protesters descended on LaGuardia Airport to support migrant children arriving in New York City after President Donald Trump signed an executive order rescinding his family separation policy. Video showed immigrant supporters, led by groups including the progressive Jewish organization Bend the Arc, standing outside of a terminal while singing the Civil Rights-era song…
I have an aunt named Malkah who I may never know, because she was kidnapped from a Jerusalem hospital in 1961. I didn’t even know that Malkah existed until two years ago when my grandmother, Aisha Biton, passed away, and a chapter of her life, hidden for most of mine, came into the open. Aisha…
White House adviser Stephen Miller, a staunch advocate for stricter immigration policies, is the great-grandson of an immigrant — who failed his naturalization test the first time around. In 1932, Nison (Max) Miller applied for naturalization as an American citizen, according to an application found by Renee Stern Steinig, a former president of the Jewish…
Ivanka Trump finally broke her silence on President Trump’s unpopular policy of separating immigrant children from parents when she thanked him for signing a controversial executive order allowing immigrant families to be imprisoned together. Thank you @POTUS for taking critical action ending family separation at our border. Congress must now act + find a lasting…
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