admin | October 18, 2021
By Ben Sales When a school administrator in Texas was caught on tape saying that a new lawforces teachers to offer an opposing view on the Holocaust, the raft of state laws aiming to prohibit the teaching of critical race theory took on a new light. For Jews who support education about systemic racism, and oppose laws restricting such education, the Texas incident proves their point.
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admin | October 18, 2021
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier marked the 80th anniversary of Germany's first deportations of Jews to Nazi death camps in occupied Poland on Monday. Steinmeier joined Berlin Mayor Michael Mller at the Track 17 Memorial at Berlin's Grunewald Train Station to mark the occasion.
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admin | October 18, 2021
Its still hard to believe that with all the breweries in America, there has been only one Jewish beer company in America. And now there are none
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admin | October 18, 2021
JNS.org In our bifurcated political culture, most Americans not only have forgotten how to listen to those who disagree with them but have also stopped being willing to credit opponents with good motives. Thats part of the reason why just about anything that someone thinks is awful is quickly labeled by somebody as being morally equivalent to the Nazis.
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admin | October 18, 2021
Colin Powell, the former U.S. Secretary of State and first Black person to hold the job, lived on the same South Bronx block as Norman and Amy Brash, friends so close they were considered relatives, and Powell called them Mammele and Papelle. Dont ask me why the Jewish diminutives, Powell, who died Monday at 84, wrote in My American Journey, his 1995 autobiography, since they were also Jamaican
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admin | October 18, 2021
Earlier this month Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 101 into law, making California the first state in the nation to add ethnic studies to its list of required high school courses
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admin | October 18, 2021
A few years ago a colleague called to interview me for a book he was writing about journalists who worked for Jewish publications.
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admin | October 18, 2021
Fan Fiction A Mem-Noir: Inspired by True Events By Brent Spiner St. Martins Press, 256page, $27.99 What is it with Star Trek and the Jews
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admin | October 18, 2021
A new illustrated book published in Pittsburgh aims to combat bigotry and hate, while telling the story of what the United States did and didnt do for European Jews during the Holocaust.
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admin | October 18, 2021
In April, the language-learning app Duolingoadded its 40th language to its program arsenal: Yiddish.
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