This is the Forward’s coverage of protests and demonstrations relating to Jewish issues.
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News This is what democracy looks like
When 17 students and teachers were gunned down in a school in Parkland, Fla., two years ago, it felt as if it had happened in our backyard. Our kids were only 6 and 7 at the time, but we quickly gave up on hiding what had happened: Parkland is like Greater Boca; there were kids…
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News ‘Dialogue is needed:’ An L.A. city council member speaks out after the protests
Apart from areas of downtown, no other part of Los Angeles has suffered so grievously in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis as the Fifth City Council District. “We have a lot of white people in my district and we have a lot of businesses, some of them high-value targets; there was good…
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News After a night of looting, L.A. store owners ask, ‘Where is the justice for all the business owners they robbed?’
The Beverly-Fairfax district, a center of Jewish life in Los Angeles, was hit hard during the protests that rocked the city May 30 and May 31. Many Jewish stores in the area were vandalized and looted, among them, Ariel Glatt Kosher Market, Mensch Bakery and Syd’s Pharmacy and Kosher market. Some synagogues in the area…
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Community Yearning to breathe free
At first, the world seems little changed—the virus is still present, the future still unclear. In fact, the coronavirus is a consistent reminder of how much we do not know. When will there be a second wave? Do antibodies provide immunity? When will there be a vaccine? Feeling equal measures of fear and constriction, we…
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News What the old Jewish radical taught me about George Floyd
It was weird, frankly, waking up on Sunday to a still, beautiful morning. The downtown L.A. streets that were inflamed by protests and riot police the night before were clamped shut by waves of uniformed National Guards. Cops and clean up crews made their way through the debris at Beverly Blvd. and Fairfax Ave., where…
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News In Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, protests leave behind destruction
At 6 a.m. on Sunday morning, building security alarms were still ringing at retail establishments in the affluent Los Angeles neighborhood around the Beverly Center, where the night before, what began as a peaceful protest for racial justice took a darker turn into destruction, looting and vandalism. LAPD had cordoned off the hardest-hit areas, including…
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News Black Lives Matter protests in Los Angeles tear through Jewish neighborhood
The day started with thousands of people demonstrating peacefully in Pan Pacific Park
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Community Aleinu. It is on us.
George Floyd was murdered under the knees of a police officer, along with three accomplices. In many faith traditions, knees are used to bend in reverence to holiness. Reverend Ted Tollefson inspired my sisters and me to write this piece from the Jewish perspective as we head into the festival of Shavuot. Aleinu. It is…
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