This is the Forward’s coverage of protests and demonstrations relating to Jewish issues.
Protests
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News ‘Auschwitz’ is a hit Iranian protest anthem, part of a music genre rebelling against official antisemitism
A defiant song, whose lyricist is in prison for snubbing the ayatollah, plays on Jewish themes to confront authoritarian rule
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Fast Forward NYC synagogue protest bill tasks police with developing a protection plan. Mamdani still hasn’t committed to sign
Amended to head off legal challenges, the City Council measure would let protesters be heard near houses of worship but allow arrest for crossing NYPD lines
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News After Alex Pretti killing in Minneapolis, Jewish gun owners confront Second Amendment tensions
'We aren’t past the point of no return, but we are getting so darn close, and I wish that more Jews would recognize that,' said one Jewish gun owner
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Opinion In Bruce Springsteen’s new anti-ICE protest song, a nod to Minnesota’s own Bob Dylan
Calling out Donald Trump, Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller by name, Springsteen conjures up his own 'Desolation Row'
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Opinion Should we be comparing ICE agents to Hitler’s ‘Brownshirts?’
In the deaths of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, unsettling parallels to 1933 Germany
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Opinion As with Cain and Abel, the blood of our brother Alex Pretti is crying out from the ground
The lies our government is telling us have a biblical precedent
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Opinion I’m a rabbi arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. The Book of Exodus shows us how this ends
Torah teaches us that the fight for human rights is long and painful — but that light prevails
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Politics NYC’s first Jewish City Council leader could govern as a check on Mamdani. Here’s her plan to fight antisemitism
Julie Menin supports the creation of protest-free buffer zones around houses of worship
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
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News Protesters picket Manhattan synagogue over Israel real estate sale, testing Mamdani and new law
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Opinion I’m an Orthodox student in NYC. I’m grateful Mamdani vetoed the school buffer bill
In Case You Missed It
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Fast Forward Israeli man indicted in attack on Catholic nun in Jerusalem’s Old City
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Fast Forward Jewish real estate magnate Steven Roth likens Mamdani’s ‘tax the rich’ rhetoric to ‘from the river to the sea’
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Fast Forward Man who firebombed Boulder Israeli hostage march sentenced to life in prison
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News LA Orthodox school’s former guidance counselor will avoid jail time in sex abuse case