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Kenosha’s rabbi on graffiti at her synagogue: ‘What’s happened these last few days is not about us’ – Jewish Post

| August 31, 2020

(JTA) In early June, as anti-racism protests swept the country in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, Beth Hillel Temple in Kenosha, Wisconsin, signed onto an interfaith letter supporting peaceful protest and condemning a broken societal system which disproportionately affects communities of color. This week, Kenosha became an epicenter of renewed protest after a police officer shot a Black man, Jacob Blake, seven times in the back

Swastikas found spray-painted in East Cobb spur action from synagogue – Atlanta Journal Constitution

| August 31, 2020

The Anti-Defamation League said last year that it documented its largest number of anti-Semitic incidents around the country. Vandalism increased 19 percent from 774 incidents in 2018, to 919 in 2019, according to its Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents

Kenosha rabbi on graffiti at her synagogue: it’s ‘not about us’ – The Jewish News of Northern California

| August 31, 2020

In early June, as anti-racism protests swept the country in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, Beth Hillel Temple in Kenosha, Wisconsin, signed onto an interfaith letter supporting peaceful protest and condemning a broken societal system which disproportionately affects communities of color. This week, Kenosha became an epicenter of renewed protest after a police officer shot a Black man, Jacob Blake, seven times in the back. And on Wednesday night, the 93-year-old synagogues driveway wasgraffitiedwith the words Free Palestine.

Today’s Gospel in Art – Jesus went into the Synagogue as He usually did – Independent Catholic News

| August 31, 2020

Sunday Church Goers in a Boat, by Carl Wilhelmson 1909 National Museum, Stockholm Gospel of 31st August 2020 - Luke 4:16-30Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day as he usually did.

Seeing the Synagogue in 20/20 – Jewish Exponent

| August 31, 2020

By Rabbi Jason Bonder For so many of us, the pace of our lives before 2020 was like a runaway train racing forward on a track with no end in sight. On the rare occasions when we had a moment to look out the window of our speeding locomotives, we would see blurry images of our world whizzing by. Along came this global pandemic and, for many of us, our trains came to a screeching halt

Crain’s editorial: More than a game – Crain’s Cleveland Business

| August 31, 2020

"We are not just a polarized society. We are increasingly a confrontational society." That's how Mark Pitcavage, a senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism, described the state of the country to The Washington Post, and regardless of where you fit on the political spectrum, that feels accurate

Vigilante group activity on the rise, worrying law enforcement and watchdog groups – WDJT

| August 31, 2020

By David Shortell, Christina Carrega and Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) -- Kevin Mathewson founded his militia, the Kenosha Guard, in June, as massive demonstrations against police brutality grew across the country, bringing with them spurts of violence. A former alderman who's raising two children in the lakeside Wisconsin city, Mathewson said in an interview that he wanted to "start a spark that let people know there are others out here that want to defend ourselves, our lives, our neighborhoods." For weeks, the group's charge to defend the community reached only a few dozen followers online and mustered no real-world activity

Are my friends giving me bad advice about conversion? J. – The Jewish News of Northern California

| August 31, 2020

Dear Dawn: My father is Jewish and my mother is not. I had no religious upbringing at all.

Jewish groups defend ADL after attacks by progressive coalition for work with cops, support of Israel – jewishpresstampa

| August 31, 2020

Jewish allies of the Anti-Defamation League are coming to its defense after more than 150 progressive groups signed an open letter calling for the ADL to be excluded from social justice coalitions. The allies include the three major non-Orthodox denominations, which put out a joint statement condemning the letter and anti-ADL campaign.

Additional measures taken in Austria to protect synagogues and other Jewish institutions – European Jewish Press

| August 31, 2020

Last weeks incidents in Graz are shocking and not acceptable. In Austria, there is no place for antisemitism, declared Austrian Minister of Interior Karl Nehammer after police arrest a 31-year-old Syrian refugee suspected of attacking a Jewish community leader as well as a synagogue in Graz, the countrys second largest city. The leader of Grazs Jewish community, Elie Rosen, was assaulted by a man with a wooden object resembling a baseball bat


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