Tag: Black Lives Matter
Jewish groups should work for justice, not toxic race theories
It’s been nearly 11 months since Americans first viewed the awful nine-minute video that depicted the last moments of an African-American man named George Floyd. The images of a police officer named Derek Chauvin...
The killing of Walter Wallace Jr.
The case of 27-year-old Walter Wallace Jr., fatally shot by two police officers in Philadelphia on Oct. 26, is the latest in a long line of controversial killings in the United States committed by...
The Black Lives Matter movement and anti-Semitism
On Aug. 28, a full-page advertisement was published in The New York Times to endorse Black Lives Matter. Claiming to represent “the majority of American Jews,” the ad not only proclaimed support for the “Black Lives Matter”...
Life, liberty and the pursuit of victimhood
With so many crises and news events swirling around us, it’s not easy to notice an underlying cultural shift that may threaten the very essence of America.
The COVID-19 pandemic, tribal political warfare, racial unrest...
Say her name? How the Breonna Taylor case became another ADL disgrace
During the course of her debate with Vice President Mike Pence, California Sen. Kamala Harris denounced the killing of Breonna Taylor, saying her life was taken, “unjustifiably and tragically and violently.” She embraced the...
Thinking of moving abroad if your candidate loses?
According to one Jewish news website, a Canadian immigration lawyer’s business is booming thanks to the U.S. presidential election. While talk of moving to the Great White North if the candidate you don’t support wins is...
When being Jewish isn’t interesting or exotic enough
Great imposters are the lifeblood of “stranger than fiction” stories that are hard to resist. Tales of troubled people who find it difficult to live life in their own skin and con their way...
Who should Jews fear most during an ‘uprising’?
It was a summer of discontent as the coronavirus pandemic raged on. The death of George Floyd, which set off a season of protests about police brutality and racial discrimination, further added to the...
What are Jews who embrace the Black Lives Matter movement endorsing?
To read the statement signed by more than 600 Jewish groups last week, in which they identified their denominations, synagogues and organizations with the Black Lives Matter movement, it’s clear that they believe they are on...
Several left-wing Jewish groups seek to oust ZOA from Boston JCRC over opposition to...
Several left-wing Jewish groups have filed a petition to initiate the removal of the Zionist Organization of America from the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston in the latest battle being waged between...