admin | June 9, 2020
Plywood boards were coming down from Petco at Richland Town Center on Sunday and cars once again packed the lot outside Walmart a day after social media sharing and local talk stoked fear that the plaza would be ransacked by rioters. A number of stores including Petco, Walmart and Luu Nails were boarded up or shut down early Saturday while a protest in a slain Minnesota mans name was happening 8 miles away in downtown Johnstown.
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admin | June 9, 2020
New Yorks long-postponed primary elections are now just two weeks away. And while June 23 will no longer carry presidential intrigue, there are a number of important congressional races that could play a meaningful role in shaping the Democratic Partys orientation in the House next year. Though progressives lost some momentum with the stalling-out of the Sanders campaign, the most recent batch of primaries, in states like New Mexico and Pennsylvania, have seen them notch significant wins at the state and local level
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admin | June 9, 2020
Dozens of American Jewish groups have pledged to work to end systemic racism in the aftermath of the George Floyd killing in Minneapolis. In a statement Tuesday, 130 organizations said they were outraged by the killing of Floyd, a black man who died in police custody last week
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admin | June 9, 2020
NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea argues there is evidence of an organization at times behind some of the protests. The "boogaloo"anti-government movement describes a group of extremists who believe the nation is on the verge of a second civil war. The Anti-Defamation League defined boogaloo in Nov.
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admin | June 9, 2020
With the passage and signing of the Never Again Education Act, the federal government is funding Holocaust education for the first time. As asserted in the very name of the law, the politicians and Jewish organizations who supported the bill and hailed its recent signing by President Trump say education can actually help prevent violent hatred
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admin | June 9, 2020
A Dundee mural depicting the man allegedly murdered by an American police officer has been defaced. Dundee graffiti artist Symon Mathieson, also known as SYKE, had shown his support for the Black Lives Matter movement by painting a portrait of George Floyd in the Hilltown. Symon painted the piece last week in an effort to show solidarity with those protesting police brutality and shine a light on racism in Scotland.
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admin | June 9, 2020
When an unarmedGeorge Floyddied in Minneapolis on May 25 without an acknowledgment of his humanity, the police officers who held him down and put a knee to his neck apparently saw his skin color as a weapon. The same day, when a white woman,Amy Cooper,threatened to call the New York City police against an African American, even though she disobeyed rules in Central Park, she used her skin color as a weapon to protect herself. This dichotomy leaves me in anguish, as cities across the nation burn in protest, rage and grief against Floyds death and centuries of racial inequity, all against the backdrop of a pandemic
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admin | June 8, 2020
Mishpacha/Twitter Police officers went undercover as Hasidic Jews to monitor protests against racism and police brutality in a majority-Jewish New Jersey town, Mishpacha reported.
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admin | June 8, 2020
Embed from Getty Images Very few people remember the name Lemrick Nelson Jr. today
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admin | June 8, 2020
Netflix'sUnorthodoxcenters on the harrowing journey of Esther "Esty" Shapiro, a Hasidic Jewish woman from Williamsburg, New York who tries to escape her community with her unborn child. The show is groundbreaking in many ways, partly due to its topic, which has not been examined much, and its use of Yiddish, a language rarely seen in the arts. RELATED:MBTI: 5 Netflix Original Series That ISTPs Will Love (& 5 They Will Hate) There were several moments in this miniseries that were truly spellbinding, particularly if you did not know much about this type of Orthodox Judaism beforehand
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