Police
A Jewish police officer weighs in on the Chauvin verdict
George Floyd’s murder and police officer Derek Chauvin’s conviction for the crime have sparked conversations all over the United States and the world about whether police are biased against Black and brown Americans and perpetuate white supremacy.
Activists want bias training for cops. The ADL provides it. But does it work?
“A good implicit bias training is gonna confront some really harsh truths about police work.”
Gift from Barbra Streisand makes George Floyd’s daughter a Disney stockholder
Gianna posed with a letter from the Jewish singer on Instagram.
Abolishing the police is a radical idea — that’s been around for over a century
The sentiments behind police abolitionism originated with late-19th and early-20th century organized labor.
Minneapolis Jews are rethinking synagogue security in response to change in their city
“These are moral questions: What makes Jews feel safe, what makes the black community feel safe, and how we find a Venn diagram where those overlap.”
Undercover cop dressed as religious Jew blows his cover with cellphone on Shabbat: report
“If you want to blend in with the frum community, its best not to wear a yarlmulka that you grabbed from the communal bin at the the reform shul.”
Can a single passage of Talmud help us think about Black Lives Matter?
Such an absurd demand — “Change your shoes or we’ll kill you!” — but it’s the Talmud showing how an oppressive society can crush its minorities.
Jewish protestor, staples in head and arm broken on NYC streets, tells his story.
“It was physically impossible to resist arrest, but they kept beating — with a baton, with their fists, with their bodies, with their legs.”
WATCH: Protesters sing in Hebrew after National Guardsmen at White House request a prayer
At the 8-second mark, the clip features a singer breaking into an enthusiastic refrain — “Tasim l’olam!”
Jewish history shows the consequences of tolerating police brutality
Uncomfortable as it may be for Jews to criticize law enforcement, ignoring systemic violence in our police force is far more dangerous.