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Fast Forward Jeff Sessions Ends DACA — He Also Praised Keeping Out Jews In The 1920s
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who announced the end of the DACA program on Tuesday, once praised laws that kept Jewish refugees from entering the United States as “good for America” – a contention that attests to the ex-Alabama senator’s ever-present nativist convictions. Sessions was referring in his remarks, first made two years ago on Steve…
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Breaking News Jews Mobilize To Defend Dreamers After Trump Ends DACA
Jewish organizations and individuals vowed to fight President Trump’s decision to end a program that protects immigrants who came to the United States as children — as did the immigrants that they care and fight for. “I was crying earlier, it was very scary,” one participant in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, who…
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Fast Forward Synagogue And Church Unite To Offer Sanctuary To Immigrant Mom
A Denver, Colorado synagogue and church are joining forces to help an immigrant from El Salvador who fears her life will be in danger if deported back to her homeland. Temple Micah and the Park Hill United Methodist Church are holding a joint interfaith prayer service Wednesday welcoming Araceli Velasquez and her family to take…
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Fast Forward Israelis Ditch Country In Record Numbers — Outnumbering Immigrants
Israelis are exiting the country in record numbers as tensions heat up, with double the number of citizens leaving the country as returning from long-term spells abroad. According to Israel’s Bureau of Statistics, 16,700 Israelis left the country for periods of a year or more, while 8,500 people returned from a long-term stay in another…
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Community As Jews, Dreamers Are Our Children, Too
Five years ago, the US government began implementation of President Obama’s 2012 executive order deferring deportation for US residents without papers who were brought here by their parents as children. The order came about after the proposed Dream Act, which would have given legal status to those same immigrant children, failed to pass Congress. In…
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Culture New Folksbiene Play: Singing Against Trump’s America
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Thirty-five years ago, Zalmen Mlotek and Moishe Rosenfeld co-wrote the script for a musical called “The Golden Land” in honor of the 85th anniversary of the Forverts, the world’s oldest Yiddish newspaper. The goal then was to depict, through Yiddish song, the first decades of Eastern European Jewish immigration…
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News Can 23andMe Tell Us If Jews Are A Race — And Is That A Good Thing?
Phil Mazo, a comedian based in Jersey City, NJ, was reading through the to-do list on his phone when he decided it might be time to check off one item that had been on the list for some time: Buy a take-home genome testing kit from the company 23andMe. After finding a deal on a…
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