admin | July 8, 2022
It was supposed to be a dream job. When Anna Rajagopal spoke to me about Avodah, they understood it to be a non-profit social justice group that works specifically with recent college graduates and young Jews from the ages of 21 to 26, placing them in a target city with the National Jewish Service Corps to do Tikkun Olam work, or world-healing work, specifically around social justice. For Rajagopal, who is a young, anti-Zionist activist and Jew of color, Avodahs mission statement resonated because of its emphasis on anti-racism and inciting social change.
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admin | July 8, 2022
The allegation that the Trump administration may have used the Internal Revenue Service against two of the presidents high-profile opponents has sparked much debate. For the American Jewish community, its a reminder of a disturbing episode that took place during the Holocaust era.
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admin | July 8, 2022
The lives of a Canadian Jewish kosher store owner and his family were threatened following an anti-Israel protest outside Jewish-owned businesses in the Toronto suburb of Thornhill.
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admin | July 8, 2022
The Lovin' Spoonful pose on a street in the 1960s. Clockwise from bottom: drummer Joe Butler, bassist Steve Boone, co-founder and lead guitarist Zal Yanovsky and co-founder and singer John Sebastian. Photo by Getty Images By Dan EpsteinJuly 07, 2022 Despite their seven Top 10 hits including 1966s chart-topping hot pavement anthem Summer in the City and their (belated) induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Lovin Spoonful are all too often left out of the great American bands of the 1960s conversation.
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admin | June 26, 2022
A protester carries a sign as they attend the "Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice" rally at Union Square near the U.S. Capitol on May 17. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption A protester carries a sign as they attend the "Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice" rally at Union Square near the U.S.
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admin | June 26, 2022
But the rise and fall of Jewish influence is a clear, familiar arc in a city that has absorbed waves of immigrants, who grew in numbers, economic power and, eventually, political stature only to be supplanted by those who followed. It happened to the Dutch, English, Germans, Irish and Italians, and now to New Yorks Jews, who at their peak in the 1950s accounted for a quarter or more of the citys total population and gained footholds at all levels of government
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admin | June 26, 2022
It is a truism among many observers of the current socio-political scene that politics has become a substitute religion for large numbers of Americans. Writing about the sacralization of politics, Shadi Hamid, for example, stated that on the left, the woke take religious notions such as original sin, atonement, ritual, and excommunication and repurpose them for secular ends; [while] on the right, adherents of a Trump-centric ethno-nationalism still drape themselves in some of the trappings of organized religion, but the result is a movement that often looks like a tent revival stripped of Christian witness.
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admin | June 26, 2022
In The Button Box, a new middle grade novel, a Muslim-Jewish friendship is at the center of an exciting time-travel tale.
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admin | June 26, 2022
British filmmaker Alex Holder, whose raw footage of former President Donald Trumps inner circle and as-yet-unseen footage of the Capitol riot has attracted attention from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, is no stranger to having his films aired on the biggest stages.
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admin | June 26, 2022
Ana Maria Archila at a NYC rally protesting the Supreme Court's abortion ruling on June 25, 2022 Photo by Gili Getz By Jacob KornbluhJune 26, 2022 The Supreme Court abortion ruling on Friday drew mass nationwide protests, with Democrats hoping it would mobilize voters to the polls in the midterm elections. For Ana Maria Archila, an ally of progressive Jewish activists and candidate for lieutenant governor of New York, the call to action could be put to test in Tuesdays Democratic primaries. Archila, 43, gained national attention in 2018 when she confronted then-Sen.
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