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+972 Magazine
April 16, 2018
On April 10th, a group of Jewish activists locked arms in front of the entrance of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Minnesota, blocking entry to the many businesses in the building. A day later, five Jewish activists were arrested after blocking the doors of the Jewish Federation of GreaterÃâà...
Haaretz
April 16, 2018
WASHINGTON - A group of around 30 demonstrators from the left-wing Jewish group "If Not Now" gathered Monday in front of the office of Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) to protest Israel's use of deadly force against thousands of Palestinian demonstrators on the Israel-Gaza border in recent weeks.
Forward
April 15, 2018
A mosque located near the Nablus in the West Bank was set on fire over the weekend in an incident believed to be connected to right-wing religious Jewish activists. Support the Forward. The Forward's independent journalism depends on donations from readers like you. Now you can double yourÃâà...
Haaretz
April 9, 2018
NEW YORK – Seven members of the Jewish anti-occupation group IfNotNow were arrested outside the Midtown offices of Chuck Schumer on Monday, after demanding that the Democratic senator condemn recent Israeli violence against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Around 30 activists arrived at Sen.
Forward
April 4, 2018
Young Jewish activists affiliated with the leftist group IfNotNow locked themselves to the doors of the office building where Israel's Boston consulate is located on Tuesday morning to protest last week's killing of protesters in Gaza, the group said in a statement. Eight activists physically locked themselves toÃâà...
Haaretz
April 4, 2018
In a first-of-its kind event, Palestinian activists in Hebron played host to 100 Israelis and international visitors on Wednesday evening in what was billed as a “Freedom Seder.” The Passover celebration featured texts in English, Hebrew and Arabic that interwove the traditional Jewish tale of liberation fromÃâà...
euronews
March 27, 2018
A group of far-right Jewish activists gathered on Monday near Jerusalem's holiest site, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, to take part in the annual re-enactment of an ancient Passover sacrifice ceremony. The atmosphere was festive when the men, dressed asÃâà...
Haaretz
March 25, 2018
Israeli police in Jerusalem green-lighted a religious ceremony which involves the slaughter of a Passover lamb only “tens of meters” from the site where the Temple once stood. Temple Mount activists carried out the sacrifice for more than ten years now, but never before had the ceremony taken place soÃâà...
Tablet Magazine
March 23, 2018
Details of these terrible spring days, with their changes from moist to warm, would figure among the cascade of information, small and large, amassed by teams of reporters, Jewish activists, political radicals, well-known writers, philanthropists, lawyers, and civil servants in the months following the pogrom.
Haaretz
March 11, 2018
Women's March Faces Crisis as Jewish Activists Lose Faith Amid Farrakhan Firestorm. Following series of tweets conveying her discomfort at movement's response to co-chair Tamika Mallory refusing to distance herself from Nation of Islam leader, social media director Alyssa Klein leaves women's group.
+972 Magazine
March 5, 2018
While a few Jewish activists had been sounding the alarm for years, they were usually accused of being “Zionists” or “crypto-Zionists,” in an attempt to bully them into silence. The tide turned after the publication of a landmark statement against him by dozens of Palestinian activists, many of them leadingÃâà...
Jewish Exponent
February 28, 2018
Over the course of the past year, a dedicated group of progressive Jewish activists in Philly have gathered in various configurations and with varied goals to support each other as we struggle with these questions. A few months ago, we began focusing our discussions on how to expand our conversations toÃâà...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
February 22, 2018
Jewish activists said the agreement gives the Libyan government ownership of materials taken from the Jewish community. The emergency restrictions from December list many general categories of artifacts, and specifically mention “scroll and manuscript containers for Islamic, Jewish, or ChristianÃâà...
Mondoweiss
February 14, 2018
Late last year the Pew Center published a report that confirmed anecdotal data, and plain common sense: hate crimes against Muslims are up. Current rates dwarf the national spike that followed the September 11, 2001 attacks. The culprit for such a dramatic increase is no surprise. Donald Trump's 2016Ãâà...
Democracy Now!
December 31, 1999
FBI agents have raided the home, office and Park Avenue hotel room of President Trump's longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen. During the Monday morning raid, the FBI seized a slew of business records, emails and documents, including documents related to a $130,000 payment to adult film starÃâà...
The Jewish Star
December 31, 1999
In early 1985, more than 800 Ethiopian Jewish refugees were left stranded and starving along the Ethiopian-Sudanese border after an Israeli airlift operation was interrupted. American Jewish activists, together with California Congressman John Miller, gave copies of “The Abandonment of the Jews” to ViceÃâà...
The Jewish Star
December 31, 1999
Jewish activists and media professionals seemed to do a “Freaky Friday” switch over the weekend when the New York Times published an essay by one of its editors charging that American Jewish leaders have done too little to call out the troubling anti-Semitism of the past two years. Jonathan WeismanÃâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
Because of that, law professor and Israel advocate Alan Dershowitz tweeted to voters to “not support her bigotry.” But Nixon has drawn praise from Jewish activists who share her politics. Introducing Nixon's speech in 2011, CBST Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum said, “We're proud of you as an artist, we're proudÃâà...
The Independent
December 31, 1999
It comes after senior Jewish activists warned the party's ruling body that allowing Mr Livingstone to return could seriously harm Labour's prospects during the upcoming local elections. The Labour veteran is understood to have been the subject of further complaints since his membership was suspended forÃâà...
Forward
December 31, 1999
American ultra-Orthodox leaders traveled to Israel this week to tell Israeli officials to ignore liberal American Jews' demands to allow women to pray at the Western Wall. In statements and documents announcing the trip, the ultra-Orthodox leaders attacked non-Orthodox Jewish groups, saying that whileÃâà...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
Senior Jewish activists have urged Labour's ruling body not to allow the former London mayor Ken Livingstone back into the party, warning that it could damage the party's chances in May's local elections. Members of the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM), including the MP Luciana Berger, have writtenÃâà...
