Jew Attacked in Prayer in Brooklyn; NYPD Kills Assailant: First Reactions
The New York Daily News is reporting that at around 1:45am today, a man named Calvin Peters entered a synagogue at Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and, yelling, “I want to...
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Editor’s Note: This post is the fifth in Jewschool’s series of reflections on Judaism, Jewish identity, race and the events in Ferguson. Max Socol is an organizer and educator in North Carolina. Moses...
View ArticleMarching for Racial Justice
Editor’s Note: This post is the seventh in Jewschool’s series of reflections on Judaism, Jewish identity, race and the events in Ferguson. A little over a week ago, I was trying to make what felt...
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Jews Affirm That #BlackLivesMatter at #ChanukahAction in Brookline, MA
Editor’s Note: This post is the eighth in Jewschool’s series of reflections on Judaism, Jewish identity, race and the events in Ferguson. I spent the first night of Chanukah this year at Coolidge...
View ArticleRacism is big, but it is not bigger than all of us
Editor’s Note: This post is the ninth in Jewschool’s series of reflections on Judaism, Jewish identity, race and the events in Ferguson. By guestposter Yavilah McCoy The Call to Action…. “Two roads...
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A fair reparation
NPR’s bold headline reads that after 522 years, Spain is inviting me home. It feels good; it feels like something is being done to right a historic wrong. A Sephardic Jew, most likely an ancestor of...
View ArticleRacial Inequality in America: NYC Hadar/Avi Schaefer Fund Symposium with...
by Rabbi Shai Held A Special Invitation to Jewschool Readers: Racial Inequality in America: Judaism, Human Equality, and the Quest for Justice January 11, 2015 Fifty years ago, Rabbi Abraham Joshua...
View Article“Checking Our Privilege”, an Obligation Bestowed by our Ancestors: Learning...
by Rabbi Michelle Dardashti Jacob has a thing for messing with the expected societal order. His story begins with striving to claim for himself what his birth-order denied and ends with his enforcing...
View ArticleNu, let’s get to work
I’ll gladly leave the problematic power dynamics and historical inaccuracies of Leida Snow’s piece in the Forward to the very able responses already published. I just want to ask about one thing. When...
View ArticleOppression, Solidarity, and Sexuality: A Lesson in Resistance from the Midwives
While one who sings with his tongue on fire Gargles in the rat race choir Bent out of shape from society’s pliers Cares not to come up any higher But rather get you down in the hole That he’s in. – Bob...
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