This is the Forward’s coverage of protests and demonstrations relating to Jewish issues.
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The Schmooze Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Schumer, and More Read Immigrant Mom’s Child Separation Story
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…
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Fast Forward Stephen Miller Dumps $80 Worth Of Sushi After Being Heckled
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…
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News Read This 16-Year-Old’s Good-Bye To Her Family, Written As Nazis Deported Her
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…
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators Disrupt Philadelphia Orchestra Concert
(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…
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Fast Forward Jersey City Monument To Katyn Massacre Sparks Controversy
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…
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian Students Arrested At NYU Israel Celebration
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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Fast Forward Birthright Founder Flips Bird At Protesters Outside Gala
(JTA) — Michael Steinhardt, the co-founder and major funder of Birthright Israel, flashed his middle finger at protesters outside a gala dinner in honor of the 18th anniversary of the free trip to Israel for young Jewish men and women. More than 150 students from colleges in the New York and New England areas protested…
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Art What Nan Goldin’s Opioid Protests Mean For The Met — And Culture Institutions Everywhere
On a recent Saturday, the photographer Nan Goldin, best known for her mid-1980s photo series “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” led a protest at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Standing in front of the Egyptian Temple of Dendur, the low, rectangular reflective moat that surrounds the Temple swarmed with orange pill bottles that had been…
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