Bette Midler’s got a big mouth. Sometimes, what comes out is gold. And sometimes, it’s just dreck. The Divine Miss M landed in hot water yesterday afternoon when she tweeted: Midler’s fury and pain seem so genuine. But she also seems out-of-touch to the point of blithe, unconscious racism. The problem here: black women are…
The California Republican Party and two county Republican parties are distancing themselves from congressional candidate and 9/11 truther Ron Cohen, Media Matters reported. Cohen, running in California’s 17th district, claims that “Bush staged 9/11” said the collapse of 7 World Trade Center was a “pre-planned demolition.” He backed up his views using a video by…
Anthony Bourdain has gone on to parts unknown, but the lifelong traveller bestowed his characteristic acidic wit on his final project. The premiere of the 12th season of Bourdain’s food and travel show “Parts Unknown” takes Bourdain to Kenya, and marks the last time he ever recorded voiceover for the show. Bourdain, who died from…
A Republican activist who donated $20,000 to Florida gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis tweeted that President Obama was a “MUSLIM N——,” Politico reported Thursday. Steven Alembik, who also lined up a speech for DeSantis at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, told Politico that he wrote the tweet in anger. He denied being a racist and said he…
Four months after Brandeis University fired its men’s basketball coach due to allegations of verbal abuse and racial discrimination, the university has accepted the resignation of one top official and demoted two others who were supposed to supervise him, Deadspin reported. Vice president of student affairs Sheryl Sousa resigned, and athletic director Lynn Dempsey and…
Hasidic rapper Nissim Black is concerned his children haven’t been accepted to yeshivas because of their skin color, he told Radio Kol Chai. “People know me as a rapper, but I’m on the road all the time for Klal Yisrael,” Black said in the interview, quoted by Yeshiva World News. “I heard from many people…
If someone asked you to name the most urgent crisis facing the Jewish community, “anti-blackness” or “intra-community racism” might not be among your first thoughts. But it should be. That’s because anti-blackness in the Jewish community is pushing black Jews out. Countless black Jews have made the difficult decision to leave Judaism completely, no longer…
Each year around Martin Luther King Day, my Jewish high school on the Upper West Side would gather for an assembly marking our community’s namesake. The school was named for Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, a Jewish leader remembered for his commitment to advancing civil rights. In the annual gathering, we would look at old photos…
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