Members of the United Kingdom’s Jewish Labour Movement claimed they were banned from attending a Labour Party meeting about anti-Semitism that they were originally invited to participate in, the Jewish Chronicle reported. Labour’s executive committee had reportedly invited the Jewish group to attend Tuesday’s session and “contribute to the discussion on this issue.” But JLM…
Harvard University dining workers are celebrating a victory after a strike that gained them a $35,000 minimum yearly salary and stable health-care costs in their new contract. And Jewish students on campus are, by and large, celebrating with them after taking a prominent role at the forefront of the push to support their demands. The…
(JTA) — Al Sharpton hasn’t always had the best relationship with the Jewish community. But on Thursday night, he had a place of honor at the Jewish Labor Committee’s annual Human Rights Awards Dinner in New York. Sharpton addressed the gathering to present the group’s Human Rights Award to Lee Saunders, president of the American…
After serving for a decade on the Board of Directors of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, I resigned in protest on July 10. The Claims Conference, as it is commonly known, was created in 1951 to secure some measure of justice for Jewish victims of Nazi persecution. Its staff of 400 administers…
Nearly 900 high school students representing Reform congregations from around the U.S. and Canada attending the NFTY (North American Federation of Temple Youth) Convention in Los Angeles this weekend were met by an unusual picket line of Jewish protesters. The Jew vs. Jew confrontation was brought about by the decision of the event organizers to…
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