A version of this article was originally posted in the Texas Jewish Post It’s that special time of the year again when supermarkets in heavily Jewish neighborhoods advertise their Passover wares, all conveniently stocked under one roof. And inevitably, some cliched tagline along the lines of, “helping you celebrate freedom!” will grace those holiday ads….
My mother never fed me spinach. She explained that it was because she was forced to eat so much of it by her mother, whose motto ran something along the lines of, “If a spoonful is good for you, a potful is even better.” Though my mother avoided making the spinach mistake with her own…
(JTA) — The student government at the University of Texas in Austin unanimously passed a resolution in support of Jewish students on campus. The resolution passed on Tuesday came after a window was broken at the campus Hillel and following anti-Semitic posts on the UT 2020 Facebook page, the Daily Texan student newspaper reported. “Several…
(JTA) — The University of Texas and Austin Police are working to determine whether an incident of vandalism at the campus Hillel was specifically targeting the Jewish community. The Texas Hillel said in a statement Tuesday that was also posted on Facebook that a window of the Texas Hillel building was broken on Saturday morning….
(JTA) — A swastika was drawn in bright-colored chalk on the base of the founders statue at Rice University in Houston. The word “TRUMP” accompanied the swastika on the 2,000-pound William Marsh Rice statue, located in the heart of the academic quad of the campus, the Houston Chronicle reported. The vandalism reportedly occurred on Friday…
(JTA) — A swastika and “KKK” were found trampled in the snow in a park in Queens, New York. The graffiti discovered Wednesday morning in a Middle Village is being investigated by the New York Police Department Hate Crimes Task Force, DNAinfo reported. Eileen O’Gara Linzer was walking her dog when she spotted the graffiti; she…
One Resistance was Austin, Texas’ grassroots day-of inauguration rally and march. This march was a broad coalition of groups who have been doing liberation work for a long time, and groups that were just starting or have not been active for that long — from socialists to faith based groups, undocumented advocates to labor unions,…
A prominent leader of the “alt-right” left a Hillel rabbi speechless when he drew a direct parallel between white supremacy and Zionism — igniting debate on social media about whether such a comparison has any validity. Richard Spencer, who leads the white nationalist National Policy Institute, appeared at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas on…
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