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a black man smiles, sitting in a wooden chair
Posted inBooks

Refugees’ stories illuminate universal pain of leaving home

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller September 18, 2019September 27, 2019
Temple Beth Hatfiloh in Olympia, Wash., is the only synagogue in the United States known to be sheltering an undocumented immigrant. (Photo/Rabbi Seth Goldstein)
Posted inU.S.

A Guatemalan asylum seeker is being sheltered in a Washington state synagogue

Ben Sales by JTA and Ben Sales September 13, 2019September 13, 2019
Raging Grannie Ann Davidson protests abortion restrictions. (Photo/Teri Vershel)
Posted inNews

‘Raging Grannies’ use political theater to fight injustice

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky September 13, 2019September 17, 2019
A pickup truck drives into a row of Jewish protesters sitting at the entrance to a parking lot outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island on August 14, 2019. (Photo/Screenshot from Facebook)
Posted inU.S.

Truck drives into row of Jewish protesters at ICE facility in Rhode Island

Ben Sales by JTA and Ben Sales August 15, 2019August 15, 2019
Rabbi Amy Eilberg speaks at an Aug. 11 protest in front of Palo Alto City Hall. (Photo/Courtesy Bend the Arc)
Posted inLocal Voice

Why this rabbi protested U.S. immigration policy on Tisha B’Av

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg August 14, 2019August 14, 2019
California Jewish and Latino lawmakers visit the Otay Mesa Detention Center near San Diego. (Photo/Courtesy California Legislative Jewish Caucus)
Posted inNorthern California

Jewish and Latino state lawmakers visit ICE detention center near San Diego

by Gabriel Greschler August 12, 2019August 13, 2019
Rabbi Mira Rivera speaks at a Jewish protest against Amazon at one of the company’s brick-and-mortar stores in New York City, Aug. 11, 2019. The protest was held on Tisha B’Av, a traditional Jewish day of mourning. Behind the speaker is a banner with a Hebrew quotation from the Book of Lamentations, which is traditionally read on Tisha B'Av. (Photo/JTA-Facebook video screenshot)
Posted inNews

40 Jews arrested in New York protesting Amazon’s ties with ICE

Ben Sales by JTA and Ben Sales August 12, 2019August 12, 2019
Hundreds gather in New York City to protest against migrant detention camps and impending raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, July 12, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Spencer Platt-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Want to help immigrants? Don’t go to the border. There’s plenty to do at home.

Rabbi Salem Pearce by Rabbi Salem Pearce July 23, 2019July 23, 2019
“Moses Smiteth the Rock in the Desert,” by James Tissot, ca. 1900
Posted inTorah

Brave refugees reflect the Divine. They deserve our greatest care.

Rabbi Stacy Friedman by Rabbi Stacy Friedman July 12, 2019July 11, 2019
Led by Jewish activist group Never Again Action, hundreds marched down Market Street to the San Francisco Federal Building to protest conditions in migrant detention camps, July 5, 2019. (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inBay Area

‘Never Again’ is now, say hundreds marching through S.F. streets

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman July 5, 2019July 9, 2019

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