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A memorial to George Floyd, whose death at the hands of Minneapolis police has led to weeks of protests, in Oakland, California.(Thomas Hawk/Flickr Commons)
June 24, 2020, 11:22 am
White Jews must listen to Jews of color
By Stephanie Rhodes and Ruth Messinger
Susan Antman
June 22, 2020, 11:34 am
What we can and must do
By Susan Antman
Michael Koplow
June 17, 2020, 11:32 am
Why Zionists should stand with Black Lives Matter
By Michael Koplow
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, front row, second from left, joins Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in prayer at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery, Feb. 6, 1968. The action was sponsored by Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam. (Photo by Ray Lustig, courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection)
June 10, 2020, 12:11 pm
Being ‘good’ isn’t enough
The times call for ‘spiritual audacity’
By Peter Geffen
Protesters in Minneapolis demonstrate against the death in police custody of George Floyd, May 29, 2020. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images via JTA)
June 10, 2020, 12:03 pm
Standing up for Israel, and with the marchers
By NJJN Editors
Incoming Rabbi Ari Isenberg, center, and members of Congregation B’nai Israel march in a June 7 demonstration in Millburn. Photo by Shira Vickar-Fox
June 10, 2020, 11:32 am
NJ Jewish community not sitting protests out
Local synagogues and organizations respond to racial unrest, conflict with BLM movement
By Johanna R Ginsberg
Protestors confront the Secret Service in front of the Old Executive Office Building on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC, to protest police killings of black people, May 30, 2020. (Geoff Livingston/Flickr Commons)
June 8, 2020, 11:37 am
‘Both Sides of My Ancestry Hold a Lot of Pain’
Jews of color respond to the George Floyd protests
By Josefin Dolsten
Protesters gather in downtown Minneapolis over the May 25 death of George Floyd at the hands of a local police officer, May 28, 2020. (Chad Davis/Flickr Commons)
June 3, 2020, 12:55 pm
Our holy obligation to make black lives matter
By Rabbi Avi S. Olitzky
Drew Angerer/Getty Images
June 3, 2020, 12:13 pm
Our silence equals consent
Former defense attorney remembers too many clients roughed up by police
By Johanna R Ginsberg
Al Jolson in “The Jazz Singer.” Getty Images
February 11, 2019, 11:27 am
Jews and blackface: A complicated story
By Steve Lipman
Anti-Semitic slurs and other offensive graffiti found outside Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School in October last year. Photo via Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ
October 10, 2018, 11:16 am
Swastika, slurs found on Scotch Plains high school
Rattled community searches for proper response to anti-Semitism
By Johanna R Ginsberg
October 10, 2018, 11:14 am
Clergy are first-responders to anti-Semitism
By Debra Rubin
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