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Is it possible that our fight against antisemitism has become so loud and alarmist that it can backfire and become counterproductive?

We rarely ask that question, maybe because the imperative of fighting Jew hatred seems so obvious, why would anyone question it?

Indeed, I receive endless emails from multiple Jewish organizations urging me to join the fight against the rise of antisemitism. This fight has become so ubiquitous it has begun to define, in many ways, Jewish identity in America. More and more, what really pumps up Jews is not their Jewishness, but the fight against the haters.

I love a good fight as much as anyone, especially when it means defending my people. But to be effective, what should this fight look like? Id like to suggest that rather than being loud and alarmist, our fight against Jew hatred should be less noisy and more strategic.

Acting quietly, of course, doesnt fit the American way. In America, when we see something we dont like, our reflex is to cry out, condemn, demonstrate, make noise, fight back. Jews fighting antisemitism do the same thingwe raise hell.

This may make us feel good, but it doesnt really work. No matter what the slogans say about ending this or that evil, until the Messiah shows up the worlds oldest hatred is not going away. That doesnt mean we abandon the fight; it means we pivot to fight from a position of strength.

A position of strength means being more quiet, strategic and legal.

Why quiet? Because the louder we get and the more we make a fuss, the weaker we look. We remind the haters they have the power to scare us and rile us up. Jews are not losers. Carping and protesting about people hating us undermines our winning qualities. We lose our mojo, our confidence, our sense of humor all those admirable traits that have helped Jews contribute so much to the world.

Lets face it American Jews will never win the Victim Olympics. Since the world already sees us as successful, high-achieving winners, why not make it work to our advantage? If people wont give us the sympathy they give to victims, how about the respect they give to winners?

Lets face it American Jews will never win the Victim Olympics. Since the world already sees us as successful, high-achieving winners, why not make it work to our advantage? If people wont give us the sympathy they give to victims, how about the respect they give to winners?

Why strategic? Because we cant lose sight of the big picture to reinforce Jewish identity and nurture Jewish pride. A strong identity is rooted in what we are for, not what we are against. Its true that activists can raise more money by fighting against something, but we cant allow our enemies to define our Jewish identities.

A strong identity is rooted in what we are for, not what we are against. Its true that activists can raise more money by fighting against something, but we cant allow our enemies to define our Jewish identities.

Physically protecting ourselves and our Jewish spaces is strategic, and it must continue. But it wont build Jewish identity. All the protective measures and loud demonstrations cant nurture our identity as well as one enlightening and inspirational Shabbat experience.

Why legal? Because if were going to fight, we might as well aim for impact. Have you noticed how no matter how many millions we pour into fighting antisemitism through traditional methods, things only seem to get worse? My favorite fighters are the legal mindsthey fight in clear, precise ways, with legal consequences that are enforced by a system of laws.

Initiatives like the Lawfare Project, Shurat HaDin and the StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department, among many others, are good examples of a quiet and strategic approach.

Similarly, our cover story this week by Lori Lowenthal Marcus, which digs deep into the California Ethnic Studies curriculum, is another case of fighting smart. Lori works for The Deborah Project, a non-profit law firm that has launched a lawsuit to combat and expose the anti-Jewish and anti-Israel elements of the curriculum, and how these elements are stealthily infiltrating our schools.

Speaking of schools, I attended this week the annual Jewish Education Awards, sponsored by The Milken Family Foundation and Builders of Jewish Education. Every Jewish denomination was present. Speaker after speaker spoke about the power of Jewish education, about instilling pride and knowledge of our heritage, about the miracle of Jewish peoplehood.

Since I was working on this column at the time, I couldnt help notice that, despite the incessant exterior noise about antisemitism, no one brought up the need to fight it. They didnt have to. Jewish educators fight antisemitism in their own way, by championing pro-semitism.

We all want to prevail against the plague of Jew hatred. Well have better odds if we fight like proud winners rather than defensive victims.

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Among the Jewish candidates running for seats in the state Assembly in the June 7 primary election, seven now have the endorsement of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus.

The 19-member caucus announced its endorsements Tuesday of seven Jewish Democrats running for the California Assembly four of whom are women. The list includes Jews of color, Jews who identify as LGBTQ, and one, Christy Holstege who is a Jew by choice, according to a press release. Holstege recently completed a one-year term as mayor of Palm Springs.

Two of the candidates are running in the Bay Area.

Jennifer Esteen, 41, a nurse who is running for public office for the first time, would become the first openly gay Black Jew in the Assembly if she prevails in the primary and then the Nov. 8 general election. She is running in District 20, an area ranging from Fremont to Castro Valley that includes 500,000 people.

The other endorsed Bay Area candidate is Steve Schwartz, 56, a farmer and nonprofit director in Sebastopol running for the Assembly seat in Marin Countys District 12 against three other Democrats. He is the son of a Holocaust survivor.

Dawn Addis (Central Coast), Daniel Hertzberg (San Fernando Valley), Josh Lowenthal (Long Beach) and Andrea Rosenthal (Palmdale/Lancaster) also have the endorsement of the caucus, which serves as a voice in the Legislature for Californias Jewish community and works to support vulnerable communities through its tikkun olam agenda.

In addition to the seven already mentioned, the caucus also endorsed its own current members who are seeking reelection in Legislature, though not all are running again.

We have a number of people who are retiring, said Jesse Gabriel (Woodland Hills), the caucus chair, referring to Assemblyman Richard Bloom (Santa Monica) and State Sen. Bob Hertzberg (San Fernando Valley).

He added that Marc Levine, who is running for California insurance commissioner, has vacated his Assembly seat (which Schwartz is running to fill). Meanwhile, state Sen. Steve Glazer, (Contra Costa County) is running for state controller, but should he lose, will still serve in the Legislature.

Gabriel noted that the caucus didnt endorse every Jewish candidate running to serve in the Legislature. Some didnt choose to apply for the endorsement, and others the caucus declined to endorse for a variety of reasons, Gabriel said.

Given our commitment to pluralism and inclusion, we are also particularly proud that our slate reflects the beautiful diversity of our Jewish community.

The seven candidates being endorsed are people that we think are going to be good partners in working with us to advance the Jewish communitys top priorities in the state capital, Gabriel said.

Gender parity is something the caucus is striving for, Gabriel said, and the four women on the endorsement list reflect the groups effort to affirmatively recruit and support Jewish women running for office. The caucus currently includes four women, all of whom are running for reelection: Susan Rubio in the Senate and Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, Blanca Rubio and Laura Friedman in the Assembly.

Given our commitment to pluralism and inclusion, we are also particularly proud that our slate reflects the beautiful diversity of our Jewish community, Gabriel and Sen. Scott Wiener (San Francisco), the caucuss vice chair, said in a joint statement announcing the endorsements. Wiener is not up for reelection as his term is set to end in 2024.

One underrepresented voice that Gabriel feels is missing from the caucus is that of Mizrahi Jews (Jews from North Africa and the Middle East). He notes that his Southern California district has large communities of Persian Jews and Jews from the Middle East.

If you look at our slate of candidates, thats a noticeable absence, Gabriel said.

Fighting antisemitism, strengthening Holocaust education and uplifting vulnerable Californians are all core values and goals in the caucus, he added. Deepening the California-Israel partnership is also part of the caucuss core.

When candidates applied and interviewed for the caucus endorsement, they were asked to talk about their views on Israel, the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, and if theyve spent any time in Israel, Gabriel said.

He mentioned how in June 2019, at the California Democratic Party State Convention in San Francisco, a group of pro-Palestinian activists lobbied the Democratic party to put language in the party platform that would deny Israels right to exist as a Jewish state.

Weve pushed back very, very fiercely on those types of things, Gabriel said. Understanding that the people that we endorse and support would be allies and partners in our work to make sure that were standing up against antisemitism and those types of things were very important, Gabriel said.

The outcomes of the June 7 primary election, and then the Nov. 8 general election, will determine how much the caucus is able to grow, if at all.

A lot of this [election] depends on whether we get bigger or smaller, Gabriel said. So thats a good reminder for everybody to go vote.

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Adam Sandler famously sang four versions of his Chanukah song, lovingly outing any celebrity who had even a millilitre of Jewish blood. The Queen was not in any of them. I think we all agree that while our sovereign is not Jewish, we would love her to be a little bit Jew-ish.

After all, shes called her celebration a JEWbilee rather than a jamboree or a gala. Is she trying to tease us, taunt us with her however tenuous connections to Yiddishkeit? Will she be telling her guests that she doesnt want presents, but has set up a donations link with Jewish Care? Will she have a klezmer band and a revved up Israeli guy belting out: Moshiach, Moshiach, Moshiach! or will she go full philharmonic orchestra?

Sadly, we know the answers to those questions, but the lead-up has had some Jew-ish vibes. Theres been lots of tree planting (which weve been doing for years) and even some pudding making. Im not sure about you, but I would choose lokshen over a swiss roll or seven-layer amaretti trifle any day. Hardly keeping it real is it? There is some connection to the royal caterers though apparently they charge the same as our kosher ones.

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The Queen occasionally hangs out with the odd Jew and has even had a Jewish brother-in-law Anthony Armstrong Jones. He was dishy, too, bringing a very welcome bit of eye candy to the fam. However, word on The Mall was that he was certainly no mensch, spreading his kosher seed before and during his marriage to the Queens sister. Whats more, he purportedly made some rather anti-Semitic comments and wrote a note to his wife saying: You look like a Jewish manicurist and I hate you. Rude. What does a Jewish manicurist even look like?

Anthony Armstrong Jones

He and Margaret had two children, Lord Linley and Lady Sarah Chatto, neither of whom they even tried to get into a Jewish school. In those days and with their connections, they could doubtless have pulled a few strings and got them into Carmel College. Its a shame JCoss wasnt around.

One of the Queens ladies-in-waiting, Virginia Fortune Oglivy is the granddaughter of a Jew. This is handy for sourcing the best smoked salmon, but as far as we know, she doesnt seek out any other perks.

Lizzies late husband, Prince Philip, was a friend to the Jews. His mother was buried in Jerusalem and, unlike his wife, he visited Israel. Her loss on many levels, not least of which being that the Tel Aviv food scene is so hot right now.

Maam did, however, agree to her eldest son Charles having a circumcision. One could even stretch it, ouch, to say that this was a bris, given that it was performed by the mohel Jacob Snowman.

This no doubt gave a lot of credibility to the circumcision movement and fabulous free advertising. One article I read claims they saw a mohel advertising if its good enough for the royal schmeckle on the side of a bus, but there were no camera phones in those days so we do not have proof. (It is still unconfirmed whether there was bridge roll reception put on by Daniels afterwards).

There was a theory that Charles and Diana had an arranged marriage a shiddach, if you will. Diana had an eye for fashion and turned to Jewish designers Elizabeth and David Emmanuel for her wedding dress.

Queen Elizabeth, unlike many Jewish mothers of the bride, chose not to patronise After Dark in Temple Fortune, instead opting for her own dressmakers. Furthermore, she does not give her old clothes to All Aboard, but rather to her dressers, who reportedly are allowed to wear them themselves or sell them.

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Im really struggling to find some Jewish traits. She does have a broigus-packed bunch of offspring and theres more than one in-law where the relationship has gone nicht so gut. Before Oprah got busy, she and Meghan Markle shared some lovely times together. However, as a mother-in-law she remains dignified and as far as we know, does not interfere.

Talking of in-laws, for a while there was a whole are they or arent they? thing about the Middleton clan being Jewish. Doreen Berger, chairman of the Jewish Genealogical Society, was having none of it, though and set the record straight. Crikey, the royal familys got more rumours than Fleetwood Mac. Kates brother James, however, must have been to a bar or bat mitzvah in his time though as he came up with a very simcha-esque business idea the edible selfie. His marshmallow company even once exhibited at the Jewish News Simcha show, complete with gelatine. Oy vay.

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This past Saturday, the United States endured its 198th mass shooting of 2022. In Buffalo, New York, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, domestic terrorist and white supremacist, opened fire in in a supermarket and its parking lot with a semi-automatic weapon.

According to Gendrons 180-page-long manifesto found after the shooting, his intention was, in his own words, to "kill as many Blacks as possible." During the shooting, Gendron murdered 10 people and injured several more; among the victims, 11 were Black.

As is common with other white supremacists, Jews factored prominently into Gendrons phantasmic beliefs and conspiracy theories about racial subordination and dominance. In his manifesto, Gendron devoted "dozens of pages" to antisemitic and other memes. He also peddled "great replacement theory," the conspiracy that Jews are controlling non-white immigration as a means to intentionally diminish the white population and establish dominance over "weaker" races.

Gendron demanded a war against Jews as well as the annihilation of the entire Jewish population, and advocated that Jews "be removed from our Western civilizations, in any way possible."

Gendrons manifesto indicates among many other things what activists around the world have been saying all along: that antisemitism is on the rise all over the world. In the United States in particular, antisemitic incidents are at an all-time high. Within the Jewish community, opinions vary about what can be done.

I dont work in counter-extremism or counter-terrorism. What I do know, however, is that any external-facing approach by American Jewish communities to combat antisemitism must also include at a minimum an equal effort to look inward and determine how a sense of cohesive peoplehood can be further developed and deepened.

Community leaders need to ask themselves: Do we make all Jews feel included and united, not just during this fight but in daily life? When we ask all Jews to call out antisemitism and its amplifiers, are we fostering a culture that discourages the gatekeeping of Jewish identity? Are we creating a culture that generates the kind of consistent goodwill that makes coming together in a crisis easier? Otherwise, what is it that we are fighting for, not just against?

It can feel unfair to ask those who experience repeated exclusion to fight for a Jewish community that is still learning to prioritize fighting for them.

Consider Jews of color. In a 2021 research survey among American Jews of color, 80 percent of respondents an enormous percentage said that they have experienced incidents of discrimination in a Jewish setting. Only 51 percent of respondents reported feeling a sense of belonging among white Jews.

Anecdotally, I have lost track of all the stories I have heard about the confusion and disbelief at the presence of Jews of color in a Jewish space. The "Are you sure youre at the right place?" types of responses are meek compared to the invasive, fetishizing questions many American Jews of color receive when they are simply trying to live their Jewish lives.

Instances of gatekeeping in the Jewish community extend past notions of race. There is the ever-thorny issue of conversion and the increasingly confusing hierarchy of which processes "count" in order for one and ones children, if the convert is a woman to truly be considered Jewish by everyone in the wider Jewish world. Even after jumping through all the necessary hoops in order to become Jewish, for many converts their status does not feel completely safe.

Their concerns are warranted when they see the reverberations from Israel. Not only is the Israeli rabbinate known for creating a process rife with barriers and even circulating so-called "blacklists" of rabbis whose conversions are deemed untrustworthy, but the same body has also even been known to revoke conversions of longtime Jews after "investigating" their level of observance years after becoming Jewish.

For other Jews, having "less" of a Jewish background than community insiders can create feelings of isolation and inability to participate in communal life. Jews with little to no formal Jewish education, Jews who become religious as adults, Jews with "just" one Jewish parent, and Jews whose ancestry has been so hidden that they are left with very little "proof" of their heritage, all face a higher barrier to entry when it comes to getting involved in Jewish life.

I have friends and acquaintances who comfortably and happily identify as Jewish privately, but never in front of Jews they see as more involved or knowledgeable for fear of being "outed" as outsiders or being told that they dont belong in the community.

I recently read a recent essay about antisemitism and anti-Zionism on college campuses. In it the author describes a student who implies that on her campus some Jewish students are not "out" to their non-Jewish peers. In reading, I was struck by the idea that for many Jewishly-identified people, it may be as complicated for them, but in a different way, to claim Jewishness in front of their fellow Jews. There is always the chance that they will be told they do not belong.

There are legitimate concerns about maintaining boundaries around Jewish identity. However for social or activist purposes, and not involving some sort of religious obligation, if someone identifies as a Jew I can think of very little reason to question that persons claim. The harm that is potentially done to a persons sense of belonging and to the Jewish community by extension outweighs, to me, any perceived "benefit" or reassurance about the persons status.

I have met Jews from many backgrounds who are genuinely not sure whether or not the Jewish community considers them true members of the Tribe, despite their own deep convictions and profound attachment to their Jewish identities.

I sometimes wonder if I hear more of their stories because I myself converted to Judaism and so I, perhaps, can more easily understand their perspectives. On the one hand, of course I can. I know what it is like to face intrusive questions at times, or to feel surveilled second-hand when converts identities are commented upon.

On the other hand, as an adult I have never felt more supported than I do by the Jewish communities of which I have been a part. I have been blown away by the sense of togetherness and positive mutual support that so many Jewish communities have shown me. I know from experience that Jewish communities can achieve truly amazing, unparalleled things. In particular, the Modern Orthodox community has been accepting and generous to me beyond a level I ever could have imagined.

The people who speak to me about their own sense of exclusion also understand the power of Jewish peoplehood, and they appreciate the myriad expressions that Jewish identity can take. It says so much about Judaism (and all its expressions) that, despite gatekeeping, so many people want to be a part of this thing! More emphasis on inclusion within the Jewish community itself makes this great tradition even better for all its adherents and it creates a more bonded and safer community.

After all, internal hierarchies of who is the most "authentically" Jewish matter little when we are dealing with violent antisemites who arent making distinctions among Jewish targets. After all, there is something illogical, not to mention cruel, in querying the credentials of people who positively choose to claim their stake in Jewish peoplehood and in the Jewish community when that same community is under attack.

Last year, organizers planned the "No Fear" rally against antisemitism in Washington, D.C. Given the muscle behind the rally, it would have been expected that the event would be a huge success. Yet the turnout was abysmal, with attendee numbers in the hundreds.

Unfortunately antisemitism is here to stay. More opportunities to join together and denounce hate will arise. Could those crowds grow in size, I wonder, if the Jewish community strives to make sure every single member is valued in both good times and bad?

Nava Anne Grant lives and works in New York City. Twitter: @navaannegrant

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At 9am on March 17th, 2022, hundreds of Jews gathered in Washington DC for the Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice, organized by The National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) and sponsored by a number of other Jewish organizations. Even among Jews, the American discourse around abortions has been a polarizing issue long before the leaked Supreme Court memo raising alarm bells about the end of Roe V. Wade. For many Jews, state denial of abortion access as preventive care contradicts the nations claim of a separation of church and state, causing turmoil for citizens who want their reproductive care free from the religious rights infringement. In response to recent events, the NCJW has shifted major donations from the Jewish Fund for Abortion Access to the National Abortion Federation, hoping to support abortion access on a national level in a potentially post-Roe world.

Growing up in a Orthodox Jewish background, anytime the A word was discussed, the reaction I heard was that abortion was wrong & evil. I remember in a 7th grade debate class, stem cell research could only be presented with an anti-abortion approach. Years later, now being in progressive circles and even among left-leaning Jews who affirm a persons right to choose, I find myself in an identity crisis, wrestling among countless others who still struggle to grow from the fundamentalist beliefs of their upbringings, wrestling with their gods and finding their own ethical approach to this ongoing debate.

With the GOPs attack on overturning Roe v.s wade, and the rise of antisemitic hate crimes in America, the Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice provided Jewish progressives a significant, supportive setting to demonstrate their shared anger and hopes for a future of reproductive freedom. Wishing I had a caffeinated drink for the 9am function, I proudly joined over 1500 ralliers from across the nation, boldly sharing their words and actions for Abortion Justice. Heres what rally-goers said:

What brings you to todays rallying call for Abortion Justice?

I encompass several marginal identities, a person of color, womxyn, and a Jew being targeted by The same alt-right and their GOP legislators want to prevent me to getting married to my girlfriend, have our own family, and having a choice for an abortion. Why do they have the right to legislate a fixed Christianity into law and on my body? Batsheva (she/her) D.C.

Im the president of my high schools women empowerment group, I didnt want to be a performative activist, by talking over doing justice, I showed up early this morning, to remind my cohort, we must live by our values, and empower all American women for their bodily care. Emma R. (She/Her) Bergen County, NJ

Im here to show remind the world that millions of children are neglected because theyre poor, disabled, queer/trans, black/brown arent being cared for by their biological parents, we dont need to overpopulate the world with unwilling mothers, forced to care for more kids that wont be unconditionally loved if forced to be born without means of sustaining them. Matthew D. (he/him)

I was asked by the NCJW organizers to bring the ruach high spirit through drumming. I know plenty of women & tgnci [transgender, gender non-conforming, and intersex] folks who have had abortions and feel silenced. Talking openly about our abortion experiences brings us together out of cultural shame. Lee Smith, (he/him) Arlington, VA

Im here as a Trans Jewess who wants to dispel all the Terf-ism in equating womanhood with a uterus. Ive had plenty of pregnancy scares, and to be denied care is restricting who I proudly am. While advocating for other trans, nonbinary and intersex folks who are left out of the conversation for contraceptive care, as the discourse around Abortion Rights, has been focused on cis women, while excluding TGNCI+ bodily autonomy to equal access to safe abortions. Bee Kline (She/her) Barcroft, VA

What is at risk for American Jewish life if Roe V. Wade is overturned?

The impact of federal anti-abortion legislation passage, is a central target on Jewish life and a boundless value to defend our vulnerable Yids/gentiles. For those of us who are white, cis male presenting need to use our privilege for womens safety, now more than ever. Jeff Jeffries (he/him) Richmond, VA

For 40 years, Ive been proudly standing up for abortion rights. The anti-abortion movement is based off fanatical christian values, Judaism protects the life of the mother over everything. Turning Roe V. Wade is an assault on women & Jewish values. Jane P. (she/her) Arlington, VA

Any law that restricts our bodily autonomy isnt good for Jews. Jewish women, privileged or not, will be targeted directly. There was a great need among the Jewish Left for a small intimate setting for folks to gather as a progressive caucus in D.C, demonstrating our democratic rights to be loud, and uniquely kvetch for our collective liberation. Rabbi Elise Koppel (she/her) Durham, NC

How can we convince other American Jews who arent standing up for abortion access to support this sacred cause?

Abortions is a Jewish value. How do you uphold loving your neighbor but turn a blind eye to those suffering with their plans for reproductive care? Hailey Amder (she/her) Philly, PA

This is my first protest Ive attended since the start of the pandemic. Im here with countless of Jews standing up for a just cause for our reproductive rights and religious freedom. In a democracy, no ones religious extremism should be passed onto us. Joe Silverstri (He/they) Ann Harbor, MI

What Jewish values do you source from in your efforts to protect reproductive health care?

Im angry that we are rallying time and time again to demand womens bodily autonomy. Its my main virtue to bring my daughter to teach her to fight for future generations to live in a better world where reproductive choice is affirmed and guarded. We should all be progressing for all women, not headed backwards. Lauren A (she/her) Bethesda, MD

Being a Jew is about human rights, to repair the world. We have to prevent to going back into the dark, where backstreet illegal abortions are permitted. Marsha Semel, (she/her) Arlington, VA

I believe in justice, fairness and equality for all people. Those targeted policies will affect the most marginalized who will not be able to afford or protect themselves with forced pregnancies. Why in 2022 does the alt-right religious views get to impose onto the livelihood whole of our American cis-society? Gabrielle Kantor (she/her) D.C

What are some conversation starters for ones Shabbat table to enhance this movements trajectory?

We dont need religion to justify abortion. People have the right, because they are divinely granted. If you claim to really care about your orthodox faith, know theres room for you in the movement for reproductive rights. You can worship Hashem, and use your Emunah to alleviate planned parenthood barriers for womxyn, while celebrating peoples choice to freedom. Rabbi Abby Stein (she/her) NYC

Its been a Jewish values for thousands of years to sustain the mental, physical wellbeing of mothers and genders who are unwanting a pregnancy. This fight isnt new. At your next shabbat table, take one small text study, from the Rishonim to the Tanayim, of understanding the evolution of reproductive care. Rabbi Marcia (she/her) Chester, CT

The rally was organized on a dime in order to take immediate action. Unfortunately, this meant that the rally wasnt able to provide ADA accessible seating, and details about meeting points were sent just hours before the 9am protest. However, I was still impressed by how effectively a progressive caucus of Jews and their allies came out amidst the Washington DC heat to express their outrage at a future that prohibits abortion, and their solidarity with grieving and marginalized womxyn, transgender, gender non-conforming, and intersex folks who are terrified by the potential overturning of Roe v. Wade.

The National Council of Jewish Womens rally garnered more than 150 synagogues and Jewish organizations, in addition to hearing from several members of Congress, including Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Andy Levin (D-MI) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and rabbis of various denominations. The crowd was filled with people of all ages and backgrounds. It bears noting, however, that a majority of those congregating were middle-aged, white, cisgender women; this is perhaps unsurprising for an held during working hours, when many, especially working class womxyn, arent privileged to leave their jobs on a weekday morning for their public health concerns. Surveying the crowd begged the question: does white upper class feminism represent the face of Jewish progressivism in America? Whose voices may drown unheard as we appraise the impact of a deadly legislation?

Among the countless reporters, there was a small handful of counter-protesters; less than a minyan of Orthodox Jews claiming to speak for the Jewish Religious whole, and some evangelical Christians. The counter-protesters were likely to have been affiliated with The Jewish Pro-Life Foundation, who likens the NCJW to Nazis and abortions to the ovens of Aushwitz. At one point, a counter protester affiliated with Neturei Karta pointed at me and said, You are responsible for killing the Jewish people.

As a reporter from an ex-Orthodox background, I received hate messages on WhatsApp from blood relatives, attempting to distract my attention from the rally and my writing. It was a struggle to avoid incendiary debates while trying to focus on drafting a perspective for New Voices, while thinking of fundamentalists I grew up with who try to guilt and shame me for my beliefs, while forgetting that love and respect for fellow Jews supersedes ones interpretation of Torah.

A day of swift protest and ralliers from across the nation in high spirits, acting to protect abortion care for those in need as a united Jewish front isnt often seen as a normal event, whether among Jews across denominations in the USA or globally. They say, two Jews come from two vulvas, but they might both be kvetching whose birth is halachically Jewish

On Tuesday, rally-goers traveled to D.C out of anger and fear of an advancing dystopian America, and walked away with new connections between allies. Rabbi Sara Hurwitz, President of Yeshivat Maharat was one the final speakers. It is no coincidence that the Hebrew word for womb is rechem, rooted in rachamim or compassion, she said, conveying that when it comes to wombs or a decision to choose to build or not build a family, we need to operate from a place of understanding and of compassion for our divine given liberties.

Photos by the author, JeJae Cleo Daniels.

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Samuels Deli, Tel Aviv Strictly Kosher, Aladdin Restaurant, Irving Kosher Meats, Shensons Deli, Davids Deli, Moishes Pippic, Maxs Deli, Millers East Coast.

These were just some of the delis, kosher markets and bagel bakeries of the Bay Area. For a community of immigrants and children of immigrants, they were the secular anchors of Jewish identity, places to savor being a Jew through a different kind of ritual: one that involved the succulent saltiness of pastrami on the tongue, the vinegar nip of pickles in the air, the chewy give of the perfect rye bread.

Most, though not all, are gone.

But many had a good run. Shensons Kosher Market first opened in either 1882 or 1897 on Folsom Street and then moved to McAllister Street in what was then a Jewish neighborhood. It later moved to Geary Blvd., and as Shensons Deli fed San Francisco Jews with pastrami, corned beef, matzah ball soup and kosher wines. In 1997, owner Alexandra Allen tried to raffle it off but failed. It was sold two years later but didnt survive; the deli shut for good in 2000.

Not all restaurants lasted that long. In 1958, this paper ran an ad announcing a new restaurant:

Lisas Kosher Style Restaurant at Taylor and Eddy Sts., has become one of the popular meeting places for those who enjoy the best in Kosher style cooking. Prepared by Lisa, a wide selection of traditional specialties is being served.

More than 30 years later, the eponymous Lisa Siemel was still cooking but for Maxs Deli, the chain. She and her husband had to close their own restaurant in 1968.

The old generation died and a lot of Jewish people moved down the Peninsula, she told the paper in 1990. On Passover I used to have white tablecloths, candles. But the Jewish people, they didnt come.

Siemel found a new home making gefilte fish and knishes at Maxs, a powerhouse for many years with locations across the Bay Area, including San Jose.

In the Outer Sunset, Tel Aviv Strictly Kosher Meats was founded in 1976 by Mikhail Treistman, a Holocaust survivor from Odessa, Ukraine. For decades, Treistman and his sons sliced meat, until a robbery and beating in 2003 left Treistman with brain damage that made it hard for him to run the shop. In 2005, he sold it to a pair of Israeli brothers. Alex Keselman, a physician, and his brother Ron, a financier, thought they could hire someone to handle the day-to-day. Instead it took over their lives. It was sold again, and in 2011 went out of business. Theres no longer a dedicated kosher butcher in San Francisco, although there are markets where kosher meat is available.

Millers East Coast Deli had one location in San Rafael and one in San Francisco, on Polk Street. Both are now closed. While the S.F. storefront held out for 18 years, the San Rafael shop, which also supplied sandwiches to the local JCC, lasted only four. In 2015, owner Robby Morgenstein told J. that costs were too high and he didnt want to be the guy selling a pastrami sandwich for $19.

When I realized Id have to raise prices a second time, thats when I decided to shut it down, he said of the San Rafael shop. The Polk Street location closed in 2019.

Its not always about the ghosts of sandwiches past, though. Some businesses are still around.

Long before the New York Times wrote that the best bagels are in California, we reported that New York is still the capital of the bagel industry, but the Bay Area is holding its own.

In the Bay Area, interestingly, many bagel customers are non-Jewish, we wrote in 1984. The product has scored heavily among college students because bagels are inexpensive and among the Asian community.

Richmond staple House of Bagels was founded in 1962 by Sid Chassy (he died in 2008). In 1984 he had two stores in San Francisco and one in Burlingame, and told the paper he grossed more than $1 million per year. The chain is under new ownership, but you can still pick up a bagel at Houses of Bagels not only in San Francisco but also in Oakland, Alameda and Walnut Creek. Sauls in Berkeley has been welcoming customers to its red booths for almost 40 years and narrowly survived the pandemic. Izzys Brooklyn Bagels is still boiling up kosher bagels in Palo Alto.

Although too many beloved restaurants and markets to name have vanished, in their place have risen new touchstones for a new generation of Jews. Wise Sons Jewish Delicatessen is almost an empire, with outposts in Southern California and Tokyo, while Berkeleys Boichik Bagels has lines around the block. The borekas are puffing up at Frena in S.F., and Loveskis Jew-ish deli in Napa does a busy trade in trout roe and miso cream cheese-topped bagel sandwiches. The Thai-influenced Bangkok sandwich at Solomons Deli in Sacramento may not be traditional, but its delicious.

The restaurants may be different, but what hasnt changed is the way Jewish food lies at the intersection of pleasure and culture. Jewish children in the Bay Area may lack the chance to eat at their grandparents local lunch spot, but one day they will be telling their own grandchildren about just how great a nosh was from Beautys Bagel Shop.

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People leave messages at a makeshift memorial near a Tops Grocery store in Buffalo, New York, on May 15, 2022, the day after a gunman shot dead 10 people. Photo by Usman Khan/AFP via Getty Images

Last Tuesday, the Forward published an article originally headlined, The Buffalo shooter targeted Black people. But his screed focuses on Jews. After feedback from several Black Jews, the Forward changed the headline, to address concerns that the article focused on the Jewish community rather than the Black community that suffered the loss of life.

Even though the but was removed from the headline, the reader, in the second sentence of the article, encounters the real thesis of this article he was targeting Black people. In the diatribe he published to explain his motivations, though, he focuses more on another group: Jews.

The article briefly mentions, in three short paragraphs, that it was Black people that were targeted and murdered and the remaining 20 paragraphs focus on the portion of the killers rant that targeted Jews. The article quickly moves us through great replacement theory and then discusses how all this hatred formed a potent stew that effectively begins and ends with antisemitism.

The article pulls on the rhetoric that European-American Jews have always worked in solidarity with racial minority groups in an attempt to situate European-American Jews at the center of this tragedy. Once again, turning a tragedy in the African American community into a discussion about antisemitism. This tragedy was not about Jewish Americans. It was about African Americans and white supremacy.

In the United States, African Americans have been the primary focus of white supremacists. Whether through slavery, Jim Crow, or institutionalized racism, African American people have always been the primary target of white supremacists. Unlike other marginalized groups, African Americans cannot hide their Blackness, making them uniquely positioned to be the victims of terror attacks.

No one denies that other groups are targeted by white supremacists. Mexicans have been murdered in a mass shooting, Muslims are regularly targeted and beaten. Asians have been and are randomly and viciously attacked, and yes, Jews of European descent are, too, in the U.S. today.

If we were honest with each other, we would admit that we are all catching hell out here. But too often, instead of providing one another space to grieve and find support together, we position ourselves in competition with one another. It is not a contest.

The difference is when African Americans are targeted and murdered in the United States of America, there is little public outcry except from other African Americans. Take for instance the police killings of Black men and women before George Floyd. How many times did you hear that Michael Brown was probably stealing the cigarillos which turned out to be his in the first place?

In the United States, African Americans are not viewed as vulnerable. Due to the whitewashing of history, African Americans are portrayed as these superhuman beings that went through slavery and later became wealthy athletes and hip-hop celebrities. African Americans are portrayed as resilient and strong, and in the extreme as angry and dangerous.

No room is made for their grief, their loss, their sorrow. Who outside of the Black community stops to ask, what does the African American community need to heal from this recent attack, let alone half a milleniums worth of violence?

That is why this article was so offensive. During a time of mourning for African Americans, the article not only centered European-American Jews while erasing Jews of color, but also ignored the fact that there is a population within European-American Jewry that participates in white supremacy.

When in 2022 African Americans are still encountering European-American Jews that are still stating they have never seen a Black Jew or asking Black Jews how they could be Jewish, or stopping them as they enter the synagogue, European-American Jews need to turn the inquiry inward to ask how they are contributing to the problem.

They should not write articles that appropriate a terror attack against African Americans as an excuse to center European-American Jews and portray them as the ultimate victim. They should, instead, consider the feelings of African American Jews and what they may be experiencing in this moment of grief.

In the 1996 movie A Time To Kill, Matthew McConaughey in his closing argument makes the following statement: Can you see her? Her raped, beaten, broken bodyleft to die. Can you see her? I want you to picture that little girl. Now imagine shes white.

I ask you, too, to imagine the 10 Black individuals that were shot down while simply shopping for groceries. Imagine their terror. Imagine them being confronted by a white supremacist that wants them and people who look like them to be erased from the earth, regardless of his motivations.

Imagine the fear they felt when they were confronted with that gun. Imagine them being shot as they held onto a shopping cart or held groceries. Imagine their final thoughts for their spouses, their children, their parents. Imagine how their entire world was shattered because, as the Talmud tells us, when we kill one life, we kill an entire world.

Because Black Lives Matter just as much as Jewish lives do.

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Dr. Elizabeth N. Webster is a former global health scientist/epidemiologist who worked internationally to address issues of public health preparedness. She currently owns Webster & Harrigan, a consultancy that focuses on issues of social justice, health, and law.

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Of the 2,717 antisemitic incidents reported by the ADL last year, 853 were acts of vandalism.

We might want to breathe a sigh of relief to know that roughly one third of the hateful attacks against Jews were not physical assault but we would be very wrong to minimize the severity and consequence of hate-motivated defacement. In fact, the rise of antisemitic graffiti likely portends the rise of more serious and violent personal attacks.

The broken windows theory teaches that if a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken one un-repaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

In other words, as soon as we become complacent about any form of hate crimes, all forms of hate crimes become more and more acceptable. And as the past has shown us, repeated and unchecked antisemitic graffiti will ultimately lead to the devaluation of Jewish life.

I also posit that the rise of vandalism speeds the pace and severity of violent, even deadly, attacks for two reasons.

First, the radical left and radical right both thrive in an atmosphere of one-up-man-ship. So, if youve scribbled some antisemitic message in your notebook, someone else has painted it on a building, and then someone else must as they do in Williamsburg play punch a Jew. Of course, we know the next step just look at the Pittsburgh and Buffalo shootings. In both cases, the murderers wrote extensively about how others of similar minds had not gone far enough in their hateful pursuit.

Second, referring back to the broken windows theory, we must look at social norms and conventions. It is all too clear that many harbor hate in their hearts, but are simply too scared consciously or not of violating social orthodoxies. Antisemitic vandalism rips away that layer of protection, and quite literally writes in bold colors that hatred of Jews is allowed. Once freed of these basic constraints and social conventions, the haters will be emboldened to take further and worse action.

Unlike in some areas studied by broken window authors, Jews are not allowing this gross defacement to stand. Hateful graffiti is cleaned or covered as soon as it appears, and those in positions of power are quick to point out and denounce such actions. But these actions keep coming, and threaten to overwhelm our responses.

We cannot allow our leaders to define what are acceptable or unacceptable forms of antisemitism. Any act of antisemitism is dangerous, and antisemitic vandalism wont stay confined to vandalism for long. I encourage our community to consider the true consequences of a broken window of an antisemitic defilement of property and of how lightly we take such things.

Craig Dershowitz is the Executive Director of Artists 4 Israel.

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In March 1965, the festering corpse of 64-year-old Herberts Cukurs was discovered stuffed into a trunk in a seaside bungalow in Montevideo, Uruguay. During the 1930s, Cukurs exploits as a dashing aviator had made him one of the most celebrated men in Latvia. Under the Nazi occupation, he found a new calling as a prominent member of the Arajs Kommando, the SS-affiliated killing unit responsible for the burning of the Riga ghetto and the massacre of around 25,000 Jews in Rumbula forest, among other barbarities.

Cukurs was contentedly operating a pedal-boat business in Brazil when allegations of his crimes became public knowledge and the Latvian Lindbergh mutated into the Latvian Eichmann. In fact, Yaakov Meidad, one of the Mossad agents who had helped kidnap Eichmann in Argentina five years earlier, led the mission to kill Cukurs. He left on the body a folder containing a passage from Sir Hartley Shawcrosss closing prosecution statement at the Nuremberg trials, which imagines that humanity itself comes to this court and cries: These are our laws let them prevail!

The Cukurs case has a particular hold on Linda Kinstler, an American journalist and academic. While her mothers family was Jewish, her paternal grandfather, Boris Kinstler, served with Cukurs in the Arajs Kommando and reportedly worked for the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, after the war. Victims and perpetrators meet in Kinstlers bloodline, but family history is only one strand of a remarkable book that braids together her own rigorously reported investigations in 10 countries with the survivors eight-decade quest for justice (a giant cold-case investigation says one prosecutor) and poetic meditations on such subjects as history, law, Latvian identity, Franz Kafka and the politics of remembrance. This is a tremendous feat of storytelling, propelled by numerous twists and revelations, yet anchored by a deep moral seriousness.

In 1965, Cukurs assassins sent telegrams alerting the German press to their operation under the name Those Who Will Never Forget, which implies an understanding that forgetting was the norm. Outside Latvia, the Riga ghetto is not as well known as its Warsaw counterpart, and the name Rumbula means less than that of Babi Yar, not for want of horror but for the failure of legal processes under a second totalitarian regime. What does proof even mean, in a twice-occupied nation that has had its people and property killed, burned and stolen, displaced and discredited? Kinstler asks.

We know so much about Nuremberg and Eichmann because those trials were outliers: swift, definitive, undeniable. More often with war criminals, time favours the accused. Survivor testimony becomes rarer and less legally credible; fatigue sets in. As far back as the 1978 trial of the Kommando leader Viktors Arjs, Der Spiegel observed: The monotony of horror no longer makes headlines. When Herberts Cukurs became the only alleged Nazi war criminal ever to be executed by Israeli agents, the possibility of a legal verdict was erased and the door left open to conspiracy theories. In the past decade, Latvian nationalist efforts to rehabilitate the butcher of Riga have included an art exhibition, a spy novel that imagines Kinstlers grandfather was a Soviet agent who framed Cukurs, and a stage musical that one critic compared to Springtime for Hitler, from Mel Brookss black comedy The Producers. Revisionism is the stepchild of Holocaust denial: of course, atrocities were committed, but was a national hero really complicit? Who can say for sure? Who alive actually saw him pull the trigger? It was all such a very long time ago. This enterprise of obfuscation is what Kinstler means by the books subtitle, How the Holocaust Ends it ends when it passes out of living memory and into the foggy realm of claim and counterclaim, beyond the reach of legal proof.

One detail leaps off the page that would not have done six months ago: Kinstlers maternal grandparents came from Ukraine and might well have been massacred at Babi Yar if they had not emigrated to Latvia before the war. We have all seen evidence of Russian war crimes in Bucha and heard the standard ritual of denials on one side and promises of justice on the other. This enthralling, sobering story of justice deferred, delayed, circumvented, undone suggests that such promises are made much more easily than they are kept.

Come to This Court and Cry by Linda Kinstler is published by Bloomsbury (20). To buy a copy for 17.40 go to guardianbookshop.com. Delivery charges apply.

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