No Jews allowed: White supremacists are building a segregated community in Arkansas, but is it legal?
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Jewish merchants were instrumental in dismantling Birmingham’s segregation, though their stores long enforced it
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Culture Will Jewish schools finally address their segregationist past?
Editor’s note: In observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Forward is resurfacing some of our recent coverage related to the Black-Jewish experience and racial justice. This article originally appeared in July, 2020. In the two months since George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police, American Jewish day schools have begun to rethink how…
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Fast Forward Israeli Preschool Ordered Closed After Segregating Ethiopian Children
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli kindergarten was ordered closed after segregating students by race. The children of Ethiopian descent in the southern town of Kiryat Gat met in an auxiliary room with a separate entrance, The Times of Israel reported. They were spread out to kindergartens and day cares throughout the town, with transportation provided…
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Opinion When Our School Integrated, We Jewish Kids Were The Only White Ones Who Didn’t Boycott
In 1972, I was six years old and attending first grade at an elementary school in Augusta, Georgia. My two older brothers and I were, as far as I knew, the only Jews in the school. But on March 15 of that year, we would also be the only white students in attendance. The previous…
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