These can be trying times for American Jews. The ADL recently released data showing a 57 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents since 2016 — and not just from white supremacists, either. Louis Farrakhan, head of Nation of Islam, continues to spew anti-Semitic remarks every chance he gets. This has led many Jewish organizations to condemn…
Consistency in public life is often honored in the breach. But when it crosses that thin line into hypocrisy, there ought to be consequences. We are at that moment with Mike Pompeo, the former congressman and current CIA director who is President Trump’s choice to be the next secretary of state. And whereas many self-appointed…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Keith Ellison, the deputy chairman of the Democratic Party, said he has never had a relationship with Louis Farrakhan, the virulently anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam. He accused critics who are pressing him to explain his relationship to Farrakhan of trying to divide Jews and blacks, but also only…
This story was originally published on Medium and was reprinted with permission. I ran for Congress more than a decade ago because I imagined a more inclusive, tolerant, and welcoming America and I’ve used my seat in Congress to try to make that vision a reality. I’ve voted to strengthen hate crime laws. I’ve introduced…
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan just dropped a seven-CD album series — and some of your favorite artists may be on it. Farrakhan, who has been accused of anti-Semitism for decades, released his “Let’s Change the World” musical box set late last month after years of planning and recording. Farrakhan himself plays on the…
The first time I heard Louis Farrakhan speak, he called Judaism a “gutter religion.” I was shocked that in the 1980’s, only 35 years after Auschwitz, that anyone would speak that way in public and not be denounced immediately. I was a cantor at a Conservative synagogue in Norwalk, CT, a diverse community about an…
Social media, and Twitter in particular, is an endless stream of call outs. People are “canceled.” careers are “over.” Anyone who wants to hire a talented person and give them a second chance faces boycotts and backlash. Anyone who wants to dialogue is a “sell out” or “complicit.” Everyone has a long memory. There has…
A Jewish staffer of the Women’s March is leaving the movement after expressing dissatisfaction with its response to a co-president’s continued support for the anti-Semitic preacher Louis Farrakhan. The move comes amid continued public frustration within both the Jewish community and local chapters of the organization that the movement has not adequately reckoned with how…
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