Translated from the Arabic by Sinan Antoon(English follows the Arabic, below.) Some violences are regenerative: a sprout pressing up through the dirt, a colonized people overthrowing a colonizing regime, farmers burning the straw from fields so plants might grow again. Other violences—prisons, detention centers, and other contrivances of human cruelty—constrict futures. One of global capitalism’s […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been following di rozeve pave (Yiddish for Pink Peacock), a queer, Yiddish, anarchist space in the Govanhill neighborhood in Glasgow, Scotland, with fascination and delight since they opened their social media accounts in the summer of 2019. As they’ve been preparing to open their pay-what-you-can café, they’ve also built a vibrant online community where […]
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Rep. Lauren Boebert says Biden’s COVID vaccine staff are ‘Needle Nazis’ – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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(Jewish News of Greater Phoenix via JTA) — When Michael Beller set out three years ago to get a law passed in Arizona requiring Holocaust education in public schools, the response he got was clear. “People told me this would never happen. They were like, ‘Not now, not ever. It will never happen in Arizona.’ […]
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This artist feature appears in our Spring 2021 issue. Subscribe now to receive a copy in your mailbox. IN THE BOTTOM LINE, textile artist Rachel Breen attached thin strips of blue and gray cloth to a wall, staggered as if describing to a curve on a graph, the movement of the line evoking a stock market chart. Breen says […]
Continue ReadingIt’s almost midnight. I continue to toss and turn on my thin prison pad of a bed, exhausted from smoldering for days in extreme heat with no reprieve. My little 12-inch fan is working overtime to bring relief. Many other prisoners’ fans have already burnt out; I pray mine doesn’t. The tier is quiet. There’s […]
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Biden kneels before Orthodox adviser to Israel’s president after learning she has 12 children – Jewish Telegraphic Agency Skip to content Advertisement Advertisement
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This article will be updated as more names are identified by authorities in Florida. (JTA) — The Champlain Towers South building collapse is a national tragedy, one that has claimed nearly 20 lives so far and left over 140 still missing in the rubble as of Thursday. Among other groups, it struck a unique nexus […]
Continue ReadingLAST OCTOBER, the expert panel appointed to write Florida’s Holocaust education standards—a group composed of scholars and Jewish communal leaders—received feedback on a draft of the standards from the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) provided by the right-wing Christian Zionist organization Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (PJTN). The group had inserted lessons that defined Jewishness […]
Continue ReadingFor the past several decades, mainstream Jewish institutions have obsessively studied and worried over Jewish marriage patterns, which have gradually tilted away from favoring in-group relationships. The latest large-scale findings, from a 2020 Pew study, were released last month. Unsurprisingly, they showed that the trend toward “intermarriage” has continued: 61% of American Jews who tied […]
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