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Fast Forward Five American Mosques Burned This Year Amid Surge In Islamophobia
The civil rights group Muslim Advocates sent a bulletin to mosques around the country detailing ways to protect their worship spaces from arson ahead of the holiday of Ramadan, which begins at the end of the month. “You have the right to worship and be protected by police and fire departments,” the letter reads. The…
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Fast Forward Jewish Defense League Teams Up With Anti-Muslim Street Gang
The militant Jewish Defense League is standing proudly with Canadian branch of Soldiers of Odin, an anti-immigrant patrol group with roots in Europe whose ranks include white nationalists. The Anti-Defamation League says that Soldiers of Odin contains “many open white supremacists, as well as other right-wing extremists.” But Meir Weinstein, the head of the Canadian…
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Community Apartheid Bulldozed My Muslim Neighbors Out Of Existence — We Must Not Let That Happen Again.
I grew up on the southern tip of South Africa, not far from where the waters of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet. As a child, I spent most of my weekends in my grandparents’ small store, located in a crowded and ethnically diverse marketplace in District Six, a Cape Town neighborhood long ago destroyed….
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News An Increasingly Autocratic And Islamic Turkey Is Scaring Its Jews
Numbers paint a stark picture for the future of Turkey’s steadily shrinking Jewish community. Forty percent of the population is preparing a possible exit route from a land that has harbored Jews since Ottoman times. Over the past 15 months — a stormy political stretch culminating in a disputed vote to expand President Recep Tayyip…
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Fast Forward In Israel, Muslim Women Can Serve On Religious Courts, But Not Jews
Israel just appointed its first female religious judge, but Jewish women are still not allowed to serve on religious courts in the country. Hana Mansour-Khatib, a family lawyer from Tamra in Northern Israel, was unanimously voted in by the Judicial Appointments Committee as judge, or qadi in a Sharia court on Tuesday, Haaretz reported. Issawi…
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Fast Forward This Heartwarming Subway Photo Of Hasidic Couple And Muslim Woman Goes Viral
The New York City subway isn’t the prettiest spot for photos. But a snap from the F Train highlighting interfaith harmony between Muslims, Jews and Taoists ricocheted around the Internet this week, after being posted to Facebook by city resident Jackie Summers. “A Taoist (me) gives up his seat so a Hasidic couple could sit…
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Breaking News Jews And Muslims Hold Pro-Immigrant ‘Seder In The Streets’
Hundreds of Jewish and Muslim activists converged on the steps of New York’s City Hall on Wednesday for a Passover “seder in the streets,” pushing Mayor Bill de Blasio and other local authorities to make concrete steps to protect immigrant and people of color communities from President Trump’s policies. Organized by Jews for Racial and…
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Community Want To Stop BDS? Stop Alienating Progressives.
As an organizer on college campuses for J Street U, the campus wing of the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement, I meet a lot of passionate students determined to stand up for a better future for Israelis and Palestinians alike. But I also see how much of the American Jewish and pro-Israel establishment places far-right, extremist voices…
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