This week, our government is actively endangering LGBTQ+ youth. We must unite to reject these ideological and dehumanizing attacks on Trans Americans. First, the Supreme Court upheld a law banning gender-affirming medical care for trans minors under any circumstances in half of America’s states. This is not medical, it is political, and it will have consequences far beyond the …
“Globalize the Intifada” is not a call for peace. Nothing about this language is progressive. “Globalize the Intifada” is a call to export suicide bombings, shootings, stabbings and murderous car rammings against Jews in IsraelJewish communities around the globe. The Intifada has now been globalized. This language inspired the murder of our community members in …
As American Jews, many of us are descendants of immigrants and refugees—those who fled persecution and state violence, seeking safety, dignity, and the chance to build a better life. Watching the militarized crackdowns on immigrants in Los Angeles, New York and other “blue states,” and the deployment of the National Guard against many innocent, law-abiding …
We are gutted over the senseless antisemitic murders of a young couple who staffed Israel’s Embassy to the United States. Our hearts are shattered for their families and for the whole Jewish nation, which will mourn together. We stand in unbreakable solidarity with our Jewish and non-Jewish friends at the Embassy, at Consulates across the …
More than 50 years after the first Freedom Seder wove Jewish ritual with the Black freedom struggle, over 200 leaders and community members gathered at Stephen Wise Temple in Los Angeles to carry that legacy forward. Co-hosted by Van Jones, Amanda Berman, Greater Zion Church of Compton, Stephen Wise Temple, Zioness, and Deborah Marcus, this …
