Nearly 20 years ago, Amy Bach, a young lawyer and journalist, spent time in a courtroom in rural Georgia to write about routine injustices in the legal system. She watched as a public defender pleaded 48 of his clients guilty in a single day. “He didn’t know their names or their faces or their cases. […]
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Full of lofty ambitions, a museum focused on American Jews has put its faith in a new leader who comes from Israel. The reason that Philadelphia’s Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History trusts Dan Tadmor to elevate the institution’s profile over the coming years is that he recently finished doing something similar at his […]
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The head of Jewish Federations of North America is doubling down on nonpartisanship after one of his executives upset colleagues last week by signaling excitement about Jewish settlement in Gaza. The remark by Karen Paikin Barall, JFNA’s vice president of government relations, came during a meeting in Washington, D.C., held a week after Donald Trump’s […]
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Before Oct. 7, 2023, Marc Rowan was known more for his Wall Street acumen than for his political activism. But over the past year, the billionaire investor has become one of the most prominent voices in a donor revolt born of dissatisfaction with how elite universities have responded to campus antisemitism. And now, Rowan may […]
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A livestreaming platform popular among video gamers updated its hate speech policy Friday to ban the word “Zionist” when used as a coded slur directed at individuals or groups of people. The move by Twitch, an Amazon-owned platform with more than 240 million active users, comes after increased scrutiny, including from a prominent lawmaker who […]
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Around a dozen masked individuals marched in downtown Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday carrying Nazi flags and hurling antisemitic and racist rhetoric, earning condemnation from a broad range of officials including the White House and the state’s Republican governor. The display came only a week after another neo-Nazi gathering in Michigan outside a community theater production […]
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As the National Book Awards gears up for its annual literary awards show this Wednesday, the foundation is defending its decision to honor someone who recently republished an infamous antisemitic tract from the 1990s. Paul Coates, founder of the pioneering Afrocentric publishing house Black Classic Press and father to journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates, will […]
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WASHINGTON — One of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s last actions as the outgoing Senate majority leader is an attempt to codify a controversial definition of antisemitism in the face of claims from the left and the right that it impinges on free speech. The New York Jewish Democrat announced Friday that he hopes to attach the […]
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and onetime presidential candidate who has compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust and mused that the COVID-19 pandemic was engineered to spare Ashkenazi Jews, is president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Trump announced his pick for the Cabinet position on […]
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Following a prolonged drop in visitation and donations from the public stemming from the Covid pandemic, the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco announced Wednesday it’s taking a “sabbatical.” That’s the word the museum is using to describe the closure of its galleries to visitors starting Dec. 15 for at least a year as the […]
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