Statements

The most sacred, most noble of all Jewish values is Pikuach Nefesh: the fundamental primacy of human life.  We live in a world where the “rights” of gun owners literally trump the rights of America’s children to survive elementary school. We’ve lived here for too long –– but we do not have to live here …

Everyone at Zioness is absolutely thrilled and inspired to wish a heartfelt “Mazal Tov!” to Ketanji Brown Jackson, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States of America. Today, the United States rectified the glaring omission of Black female representation on the highest court in the land.  Today, we as a nation are a little …

One year ago, a man walked into three Atlanta-area spas and murdered 8 people, 6 of whom were Asian women. There is no doubt these spas were targeted on a basis of both deep rooted racial and gender bias. We are observing March 16 in quiet reflection in honor of the victims, the survivors, and …

On January 5 and again on February 1 and 2, twenty-two Historically Black Colleges and Universities received bomb threats. We are disgusted and enraged at the ongoing terror posed to innocent Black lives. Currently, there is an open investigation that should demand all perpetrators of this racially motivated attack answer for their crimes.  While we …

Dear friends and allies to the Jewish people, As you already know, this past weekend, after an ostensibly homeless gunman was welcomed into a Texas shul, he took hostage a Rabbi and 3 innocent Jewish Shabbat worshippers. Jews the world over held our collective breath for 11 hours, praying that this synagogue attack would end …

Gregory and Travis McMichael and William Bryan murdered Ahmaud Arbery, an innocent man going for a run, for the crime of being Black in America. Ahmaud, a young man with a loving family and a whole life ahead, spent five full minutes literally running for his life. Barring a successful appeal, the McMichaels will spend …