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Itzhak Perlman Says Lifelong Values Forced Him To Scrap North Carolina Concert Over Transgender Bathroom Ban

Itzhak Perlman, the famed Israeli-American violinist who performed at Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, has become the latest musician to cancel an appearance in North Carolina over the state’s recent bill curtailing antidiscrimination policies for people identifying as LGBT. “As my fans know, I have spent a lifetime advocating against discrimination towards those with physical disabilities…

By Talya Zax May 19, 2016 | 2 min read
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‘Wicked’ Composer Nixes North Carolina Shows Over Anti-LGBT Law

Broadway composer Stephen Schwartz has barred North Carolina theaters from producing his shows, in protest of a new state law that entrenches discrimination against LGBT people. The Jewish composer, who worked on such musical hits as “Wicked” and “Pippin,” called the law “reprehensible and discriminatory,” in a letter obtained by . “I feel that it…

By Josefin Dolsten Apr 5, 2016 | < 1 min read
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In Response to North Carolina’s Law, a Jewish Case for Intersectionality

North Carolina has once again made reactionary history, this time rolling back anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people by means of a complete fabrication: that transgender women are, in fact, male sexual predators. There is not a shred of data to support this conclusion — none. On the contrary, by forcing transgender men to shower, urinate…

By Jay Michaelson Apr 1, 2016 | 4 min read
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North Carolina Day School Shut Amid Threats

A North Carolina Jewish day school closed for two days and the FBI is investigating in response to a threatening letter. B’nai Shalom Day School in Greensboro received a letter on Monday containing racial epithets and threats of violence, Fox 8 News reported. In a news release sent Tuesday, Marilyn Forman Chandler, executive director of…

By JTA Nov 25, 2015 | < 1 min read
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We All Agree Nazi Flag Is Wrong. So What About Confederate Flag?

On the heels of the Confederate flag controversy in South Carolina, another dispute over a flag is raging in North Carolina. Kings Mountain resident John Brown has been flying a Nazi flag from his front porch. But, under pressure from his community, he has agreed to take it down in a couple of days, For…

By Rachel X. Landes Jul 6, 2015 | 3 min read
Culture
I Survived Teaching Jewish Studies in North Carolina

I teach Jewish history in North Carolina, a land haunted by Jesus Christ. It is a land where the present is the biblical past. It is a land where the Second Coming is apparently coming any moment now. It is a land where devout Christians are eager to share the good news. It is a…

By Jarrod Tanny Mar 22, 2015 | 7 min read
Culture
Of Howard Cosell, Cecil De Mille and 10 Other Jewish Facts About North Carolina

1) 32,075 Jews live in North Carolina. 2) Joachim Ganz, a Czech metallurgist, arrived in North Carolina in 1585, making him not only the first Jewish settler in the state but in any British colony. 3) Prussian-born merchant Samuel Wittkowski ran a store in Charlotte and was honored for his loyalty to North Carolina governor…

By Forward Staff Mar 21, 2015 | 2 min read
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Palestinian Authority Wants Role in Probe of Killings of 3 Muslims in North Carolina

The Palestinian government on Saturday condemned as “terrorism” the killings of three young Palestinian-Americans in North Carolina and called on U.S. authorities to include its investigators in the probe. Police have charged a neighbor with Tuesday’s shooting in the town of Chapel Hill of Deah Barakat, 23, his wife Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister…

By Reuters Feb 14, 2015 | 2 min read

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Itzhak Perlman Says Lifelong Values Forced Him To Scrap North Carolina Concert Over Transgender Bathroom Ban

‘Wicked’ Composer Nixes North Carolina Shows Over Anti-LGBT Law

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North Carolina Day School Shut Amid Threats

We All Agree Nazi Flag Is Wrong. So What About Confederate Flag?

I Survived Teaching Jewish Studies in North Carolina

Of Howard Cosell, Cecil De Mille and 10 Other Jewish Facts About North Carolina

Palestinian Authority Wants Role in Probe of Killings of 3 Muslims in North Carolina

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