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Black Lives Matter

A protest in front of the Hall of Justice in Los Angeles, Sept. 9, 2020. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Why Jewish Americans can’t agree on racism

by Ilana M. Horwitz October 24, 2024October 24, 2024

(JTA) — In the summer of 2020, a friend and I were deep in conversation about race. You might remember it well, that summer of reckoning that followed George Floyd’s […]

Rabbi Amy Eilberg and the Rev. Debra Murray
Posted inBay Area

Jewish leaders rally around Black Palo Alto pastor facing harassment

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 30, 2021August 30, 2021
The first cohort of the Jews of Color Career Development Program (clockwise from top left): Tiziana Friedman, Sumner Lewis, Aaron Carpenter, Kayla Fleming, Anabelle Kaimach, Sharona Shnayder, Daniel Hershfield and Liyah Foye. (Photos/Courtesy of Jews of Color Initiative)
Posted inUncategorized

Bay Area-based program for Jews of color aims to diversify Jewish organizations

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten and JTA October 14, 2020October 14, 2020
A person holds a Black Lives Matter flag during the "Commitment March: Get Your Knee Off Our Necks" protest against racism and police brutality, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Aug. 28, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Olivier Douliery-Pool-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S.

10-page summary of new Movement for Black Lives platform contains no mention of Israel, 4 years after divisive condemnation

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA August 28, 2020
Someone sprays graffiti reading 'Free Palestine' on the driveway of Beth Hillel Temple in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Wednesday, Aug. 26. (Screenshot from YouTube)
Posted inNews

Kenosha rabbi on graffiti at her synagogue: ‘What’s happened these last few days is not about us’

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA August 28, 2020
Joe Biden speaks about the coronavirus at the Hotel Du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware, March 12, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Michael Brochstein-Echoes Wire-Barcroft Media via Getty Images)
Posted inLetters

Quibble with our school Covid coverage; Biden’s ‘career of lying’; Stop saying ‘Jewish privilege’; An ‘anti-Israel rag’; etc.

by J. Readers August 7, 2020August 7, 2020
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum at a press conference in Honolulu, March 15, 2017. (Photo/JTA-Kent Nishimura-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inU.S., News

Oregon’s Jewish attorney general says she won’t stand for authoritarianism in Portland

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA July 31, 2020
A Black Lives Matter sign outside the White House during a protest in the aftermath of the George Floyd killing, June 7, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Aurora Samperio-NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Posted inLetters

J. is fake news; Kushner is no celebrity; BLM is bad for the Jews; etc.

by J. Readers July 28, 2020
Gabe Kapler wearing facemask
Posted inSports

Giants Jewish manager Gabe Kapler kneels during playing of national anthem

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and J. Staff July 22, 2020July 22, 2020
Many people march down a street carrying a colorful banner that reads "Jews Support Black Lives Matter"
Posted inUncategorized

Jewish communities are finally paying attention to Jews of color. Here’s the long road to how they got there.

Josefin Dolsten by Josefin Dolsten and JTA July 15, 2020

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