Posts Tagged: Floyd protests Jews
Addressing the Rise of Minority Attacks Against Orthodox Jews
Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn find themselves at the center of increasing antisemitic violence. Just this week, two teenagers chased a frantic Hasidic man down a...
Prominent Black Lives Matter Figure Equates Ukrainian Resistance to Palestinian Terror Attacks
Newsweek reported on February 27 that social justice activist Shaun King drew a moral equivalence between the plight of the Ukrainian people under attack by...
Whoopi Goldberg and the Jewish Moral Dilemma
Like a virus, antisemitism survives by reproducing into different strains, and each new strain can be more deadly than the last. In a talk once about...
Jews as Racial Villains: From Jewish Blackness to Jewish Whiteness
It was less than a century ago that white-presenting Jews were defined as Black. White supremacist arbiters of whiteness -- in an obsession with racial...
Social Justice Includes Support for Israel
W.E.B. Du Bois once spoke of a “double-consciousness” felt by Black people in the United States. Even when accepted by white society, he argued that Black Americans...
The Woke Mob and Critical Race Theory Come for the Jews
You have to marvel at the resilience of Jew-hatred. Like a highly contagious retrovirus and its variants, antisemitism has the uncanny ability to evolve with...
We Must Renew Black-Jewish Brotherhood
With friction between the Black and Jewish communities rising again, it’s time to renew African-American and Jewish bonds of brotherhood. While our problems regarding COVID-19 remain...
Op-Ed Promotes Lie That Israel Is a ‘White’ Country
The basic premise of a 3,100 word op-ed in the Independent (“‘No one talks about this’: The plight of black people in the Middle East”)...
Can Calls for Unity and Moderation Unite Divided Societies?
JNS.org - It says something about the state of Israeli society that a speech containing many platitudes and little in the way of practical suggestions...
Jewish Responsibility During Black Lives Matter
While there will be no quarrel regarding the Biblical admonition to pursue justice, what actually constitutes justice is less clear. There is the sense that...
Sports, Moral Education, and the NFL
Sports have always played an integral role in modern life, connecting popular culture with patriotism and nationalism. But the NFL, and football in general, are...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Slam Dunk Against Antisemitism
JNS.org - Who ranks with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? In our view, nobody. But former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is an African-American -- and...
The Black and Jewish Communities Must Unite; But Black Leaders Must Fight Antisemitism
“So you’re that ni**er lover that wants to tell us what to do with all our ni**ers in Mississippi?” Those were the last words that a...
Blacks and Jews Together: Building Ladders Instead of Walls
Recent current events remind me of a beautiful story I heard years ago. A boy was shorter than his younger brother, and it bothered him...
