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News Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge, a crowd sings, argues and protests anti-Semitism
All the world is a narrow bridge, and the most important thing is to not be afraid. So goes a famous Jewish folksong, and so was the experience of an estimated 25,000 people who marched across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City Sunday for a rally against anti-Semitism dubbed “No Hate. No Fear.” Many…
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News The reason for this major New York rally is violence against Hasidic Jews. But will they go?
Several of the New York area’s biggest and most important Jewish organizations will hold a rally on Sunday in response to a recent epidemic of attacks on Hasidic Jews, including a machete attack at a Hanukkah party last weekend that left five people wounded, including one in a coma. The event is intended to express…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Pittsburgh Jews Arrested Protesting Trump
Jewish activists were arrested in Pittsburgh on Wednesday while protesting President Trump’s attendance at a fracking industry conference. Members of the progressive advocacy group Bend the Arc: Jewish Action were among the 14 people arrested in front of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, the group said in a statement. NOW IN PITTSBURGH: Jewish leaders…
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Fast Forward Several Hospitalized After Truck Drives Into Jewish ICE Protestors
Several people were taken to the hospital Wednesday evening after a pickup truck drove into a row of Jewish protestors blocking an entrance at an ICE detention center in Rhode Island. Some injuries were caused by the truck and others from the affects of being pepper-sprayed by detention officials, said Matthew Harvey, a spokesperson for…
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Opinion Protest Is A Sacred Jewish Practice
Despite growing up to become a rabbi, I don’t remember much about my Hebrew School days. I remember being excited to learn the letters, and being bored reading about some people called “Babylonians” in a book that smelled like a basement. One thing I do remember quite clearly, however, is a trip I took with…
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Fast Forward WATCH: ‘Never Again’ Jewish Protestors Arrested In Protest At ICE Headquarters
Thousands of protesters affiliated with the Jewish group Never Again Action and other immigration advocacy organizations marched on the headquarters of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Washington, D.C., leading to the arrests of some who occupied the building. The protest, arranged by Never Again Action and the Latino advocacy group Movimiento Cosecha, included songs and…
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The Schmooze Mass Die-In To Protest The OxyContin Sackler Family By Nan Goldin At The Guggenheim
If you were at the Guggenheim Museum on Saturday you could have caught a free new exhibit, created by Jewish artist Nan Goldin and her group “PAIN” (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now.) Around 6:30pm, flurries of fake scripts fell from the ceiling of the iconic building, proscribing Solomon R. Guggenheim 80 mg of OcyContin, to be…
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Fast Forward What Did Hebrew Israelites Have To Do With Standoff At Lincoln Memorial?
A group of Hebrew Israelites in Washington, D.C. was entangled in a confrontation on Friday with Native American protestors and Catholic school students visiting from Kentucky, The Washington Post reported. A video that went viral over the weekend showed part of the entanglement, when the students wearing red Make America Great Again hats started mocking…
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