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Fast Forward A Purim costume spoofing police brutality triggers concerns about racism and insensitivity
Though the photo has been removed from Instagram, the debate over racism on Purim persists
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Fast Forward Activists use Tu B’shvat to raise money for protesters against Atlanta’s Cop City
Opponents say the planned $90 million training facility will destroy a forested area and increasingly militarize police
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Opinion Former Israeli cop on ‘former officers’ in Memphis and the failure of police reform
‘The constant push for more cops rather than better cops will generate similar images over and over again,’ said Maria Haberfeld, a criminal justice professor who also served in a counter-terrorism unit of the Israeli Defense Forces
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Culture In this classic Jewish children’s book, a Yiddish-speaking dog learns to reject racism
As America continues its intensified reckoning with questions of racial justice, parents and educators are keenly aware of the need to speak to children about race in ways that feel authentic and relatable. The Jewish community can look to Yiddish literature for models of antiracist storytelling that took shape long before the storied alliances of…
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Israel News Inspired by Black Lives Matter, Israelis protest police brutality
Israeli police were caught on camera earlier this month brutally beating 24-year old David Biton over a face mask. In a jerky, low-resolution cellphone video shared widely over the internet, Biton, who had been stopped for failing to adhere to the country’s social distancing regulations, could be seen laying on the ground crying out in…
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Life Can a single passage of Talmud help us think about Black Lives Matter?
Welcome to the first of what we hope will be a recurring feature in which we explore a passage from the Talmud that resonates with current events. The goal is not to determine “the Jewish view” but to prompt thought and discussion. You can find more about this passage — Sanhedrin 74a-b — at the…
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News ‘Palestinian Lives Matter’ trope resurfaces amid George Floyd protests
Online outcry in the aftermath of the killing of an unarmed black man by a Minneapolis police officer has seen a smattering of protesters comparing American police brutality to the killings of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers — a return to rhetoric common in the early days of the Black Lives Matter movement. Singer and model…
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