Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of protests and demonstrations relating to Jewish issues.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of protests and demonstrations relating to Jewish issues.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of protests and demonstrations relating to Jewish issues.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of protests and demonstrations relating to Jewish issues.
At 10 a.m. on Tuesday, women across Israel walked out of their workplaces for 24 minutes, one minute for each woman killed so far in 2018. That statistic, a rise over the reported 17 killed in 2017, was the galvanizing factor for what protesters are calling an “unprecedented” show of female power in Israel as…
Conservative Jewish groups affirmed their support for President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, during his first day of Congressional hearings on Tuesday, hailing him as an ally in their quest for “religious liberty.” A leader with the Coalition for Jewish Values said the 53-year-old federal court judge is a “very good, well-qualified justice” who…
Maggie Gyllenhaal, sister of Jake Gyllenhaal and fellow actor, has orchestrated a video with 30 celebrities to vocalize the heart-wrenching story of a Honduran woman who has been separated from her 18-month-old son as a result of the Trump administration’s separation policy. This is a video I made. An affidavit from a woman who’s 18…
After getting heckled yet again at a restaurant, White House senior advisor Stephen Miller took action by throwing away the $80 worth of sushi he had purchased, New York Magazine reported. Miller told colleagues that one night, after ordering $80 worth of takeout sushi from a nearby restaurant, a bartender followed him out and yelled…
When Sala Kirschner, formerly Sala Garncarz, was separated from her family in the midst of the Holocaust, she did not know when she would see them again. Kirschner and her family were stuck in a Jewish ghetto in occupied southwestern Poland’s Sosnowiec when Kirschner’s older sister, Raizel, was conscripted to work by the Germans. Kirschner…
(JTA) — Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested an upcoming visit to Israel by the Philadelphia Orchestra by disrupting its farewell performance of “Tosca.” About 60 demonstrators blocked traffic and two of them entered the downtown Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, leading to the Saturday night concert being halted for 10 minutes, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. According…
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Plans to move a monument in Jersey City commemorating the victims of World War II’s Katyn Forest massacre sparked protests among people of Polish descent living in the United States, as well as Polish politicians and representatives of the Polish-Jewish community. The monument commemorating the massacre created by Polish-American sculptor Andrzej Pitynski, has stood…
Two members of the campus group Students for Justice in Palestine were arrested after burning an Israeli flag and protesting a New York University pro-Israel event, the school’s student newspaper reported. “Our point is to make being Zionist uncomfortable on the NYU campus,” SJP president Khalid Abu Dawas told the Washington Square News. The paper…
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