Guila Franklin Siegel is associate director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, D.C. She can be contacted at [email protected].
Guila Franklin Siegel
By Guila Franklin Siegel
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The recent Supreme Court ruling allowing a coach to pray on the field makes it even harder to advocate for minority-faith students
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Have American Jews “reinforced elements of white supremacy in their own lived experience?” This question was raised by historian Marc Dollinger in the preface he wrote for a fourth printing of his book on Black-Jewish relations. The book’s publisher, Brandeis University Press, found Dollinger’s connection of “white supremacy” to Jewish-American upward mobility problematic, and their…
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Opinion Hate On The Far Left Is Just As Dangerous As Hate On The Far Right
In his Forward column outlining “19 People Jews Should Worry About More Than Linda Sarsour,” Steven Davidson says that with so many other dangers lurking, he is confounded by the Jewish community’s seeming obsession with the controversial Palestinian-American feminist activist. I share Davidson’s horror at the presence of figures such as Steve Bannon and Sebastian…
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