This is the Forward’s coverage of protests and demonstrations relating to Jewish issues.
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The Schmooze Social Justice Protestors Taking To Israeli Streets Again
Israel’s social protests are due to return to the streets tomorrow with a march, the first in just under two months. “On October 29, we young people need to take to the streets and demand a new national budget, and the social justice we deserve,” protestor May Turgeman said at a press conference in which…
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Life Jews Help African Nobel Winner Aid Women
When the announcement was made that the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize would be given to three women, including Leymah Gbowee (pronounced LAY-muh BO-wee), some Jews were particularly proud. Gbowee, an extraordinary Liberian activist and founder of Women Peace and Security Network-Africa (WIPSEN), who has been influential in mobilizing women for peace and bringing democracy to…
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Opinion Inspirational Yom Kippur at Occupy Wall St.
A large, open plaza across from Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, where Occupy Wall Street has made its encampment for three weeks, proved to be the perfect setting for Kol Nidre on Friday night. Earlier in the week, when Daniel Sieradski, Occupy Wall Street protester and self-styled “new media activist,” wondered on Facebook and Twitter whether he…
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Fast Forward Yom Kippur Service May Expand Wall St. Protest
The Yom Kippur service at the ongoing anti-corporate protests in downtown Manhattan will be used to expand the scope of the activists’ “occupation” of the Financial District, according to the service’s organizer. Activists who have been camping at a public plaza near Wall Street asked Dan Sieradski, the Jewish new media activist who has organized…
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Life Why My Yom Kippur Is at Occupy Wall Street
On the Friday night immediately after Rosh Hashanna, my son Dan called for Shabbat dinner at Occupy Wall Street. There were about 25-30 of us who made kiddush, ate cholent (which translates these days into vegetarian chili), had tuna fish instead of gefilte fish and drank lots of juice while eating home-made challah. When a…
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News Wall Street Protest Can’t Match Israeli Tent Cities, For Now
It was one day after New York City police arrested scores of left-wing demonstrators during a march on Manhattan’s Union Square, and the ranks were dwindling at the protesters’ downtown encampment. A member of the group offered a weather forecast extending to the end of the week — not a minor consideration for the activists,…
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Opinion Israeli Protests Give Masses a Reason to Speak Out
If you’ve ever been to Tel Aviv’s Kikar Hamedina, the circular public plaza in the north of the city, you’ll know just how utterly large it is. It’s a massive, usually empty expanse ringed by posh stores like Louis Vuitton and Gucci — the epicenter of Israeli capitalism, if you will. And so it was…
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Life Are Women Being Left Behind in Israel Protests?
At the start of the summer, Israel’s social protest movement looked like it would represent a real turning point for women in the public sphere. The face of the movement was indisputably female. The story began when a young filmmaker, 25-year-old Daphne Leef, pitched a tent in downtown Tel Aviv to protest the lack of…
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