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Rainbow-colored challah at Congregation Sha'ar Zahav's 2018 Pride Shabbat. (Photo/David A.M. Wilensky)
Posted inPride

Don’t let Pride’s 50th anniversary pass by. Lots of Jewish resources are available.

9mugmychalcopeland by Rabbi Mychal Copeland June 22, 2020
Members of the neo-Nazi South African group AWB.(Photo/JTA-David Turnley-Corbis-VCG via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

I grew up a white Jew in South Africa. We cannot sit out today’s fight against institutionalized racism.

Robert Bank by Robert Bank June 22, 2020
"I’m coming out of the closet. I am Black, I am Jewish, I am queer, and on top of all that, I’m a woman, too," writes Aviva Davis.
Posted inLocal Voice

How I learned to love myself as a Black Jew

Aviva Davis by Aviva Davis June 19, 2020
Left: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Joachim Prinz pictured, 1963. (Photo/JTA-American Jewish Historical Society via Wikimedia Commons). Right: A gathering to pay tribute to George Floyd, killed by police in Minneapolis, and Adama Traoré, killed by French police four years ago, Toulouse, France, June 10, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Alain Pitton-NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Posted inLocal Voice

Let’s not make America wait again — true equality now!

Rabbi Mordecai Miller by Rabbi Mordecai Miller June 15, 2020
A Black Lives Matter protester raises his fist during a march to honor George Floyd in New York City, May 31, 2020. (Photo/JTA-John Moore-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Israel isn’t an excuse not to support Black Lives Matter

by Maayan Belding-Zidon June 15, 2020June 15, 2020
David Waksberg at a Simchat Torah rally for Soviet Jews in front of the San Francisco Soviet consulate in 1984 with son Raphael Bob-Waksberg on his chest. (Photo/Courtesy Waksberg)
Posted inLocal Voice

1980s Soviet Jewry activist turns his eyes toward a battle for today: Black Lives Matter

by David Waksberg June 12, 2020June 12, 2020
Jewish Youth for Community Action members at a Black Lives Matter protest in Oakland in 2020. (Rachel Gottfried)
Posted inUncategorized

Racial justice is a Jewish imperative

by J. Editorial Board June 12, 2020
The Neve Menachem settlement in the West Bank. (Photo/JTA-Gili Yaari-Flash 90)
Posted inLetters

God bless ‘Crip Camp’; annexation is reckless; ethnic studies is bad for the Jews; Israel’s role in police brutality; etc.

by J. Readers June 11, 2020
“Noah’s Ark on the Mount Ararat” by Simone de Myle, 1570
Posted inReligion

40 days and 40 nights: What the Bible can teach us about quarantine

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein June 10, 2020
The author (left) age 9, with her mother and siblings in Oakland. (Photo/Courtesy Larks)
Posted inFirst Person

Black Jews are grieving, and we need you to help us mourn

Shekhiynah Larks by Shekhiynah Larks June 9, 2020

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