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Food pantry volunteers work outside at the Jewish Federation of Kansas City amid the adoption of new pandemic-era health-and-safety protocols by Jewish institutions around the country.

Planning reopenings amid pandemic, Jewish institutions navigate minefield of challenges

When Jewish institutions like JCCs and synagogues shut down this spring due to the coronavirus pandemic, it often felt like a wrenching decision arrived at reluctantly after careful deliberation. … more

Michele Chabin | 8/4/20

StopAntisemitism.org was one of dozens of accounts to call attention to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's labeling of tefillin in its collection, July 25, 2020. (Twitter via JTA)

Twitter debate ensues after Metropolitan Museum of Art labels tefillin as Egyptian amulet

(JTA) — The first time the Metropolitan Museum of Art tweeted a picture that appeared unmistakably to Jewish followers to be a ritual object used in Jewish prayer with the label … more

Marcy Oster | 7/27/20

Election workers sort vote-by-mail ballots for the presidential primary at King County Elections in Renton, Washington on March 10, 2020.

Wish you were voting

WASHINGTON ( JTA ) — Old-fashioned postcards remain one of the best ways to get out the vote in underserved communities. Who knew? I picked up this nugget while reporting a story this week … more

Ron Kampeas | 7/24/20

Are you looking for information about Black Lives Matter?

What is Black Lives Matter? Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a non-centralized grassroots social justice movement organized by regional chapters urging society to value Black lives and recognize their marginalization. more

7/3/20

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., on April 10, 2018. Later that year, the Anti-Defamation League would start to pivot from collaborating with Facebook to pressuring it on its hate speech policies.

How the ADL went from working with Facebook to leading a boycott against it

(JTA) — It was when Mark Zuckerberg said he would allow Holocaust denial on his platform that the Anti-Defamation League realized its partnership with Facebook wasn’t working. The … more

Ben Sales | 7/2/20

Becoming a rebbetzin

(JTA) – Samantha Zerin headed home from a Yiddish class she had taught as part of her synagogue’s adult education program on the evening of Dec. 19 and knew her life was about to change. … more

JOSEFIN DOLSTEN | 7/1/20

AIPAC cancels next year’s policy conference

(JTA) – AIPAC has canceled its 2021 policy conference, citing the “continued uncertainties created by the COVID-19 pandemic.”Betsy Korn, the president of the American Israel Public … more

MARCY OSTER | 6/5/20

How Philadelphia’s creative Jews are handling the coronavirus pandemic

PHILADELPHIA ( JTA ) — Before the social unrest erupted here in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, Philadelphia struggled mightily with the coronavirus pandemic as one of the nation’s … more

Stephen Silver | 6/4/20

Tending wounds and distributing supplies: Minneapolis Jews care for a city in turmoil

( JTA ) — Dr. Vivian Fischer spent five hours Saturday walking toward Minneapolis’s devastation from her home in a suburb immediately outside the city. The family physician put on gray scrubs, … more

Debra Nussbaum Cohen | 6/1/20

Valerie Braham, widow of one of the victims of the Hyper Cacher grocery store shooting in Paris, appears in “Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations.”

Anti-Semitism examined as a social virus in new PBS documentary

( J. The Jewish News of Northern California ) — Any person who follows the news knows that anti-Semitism is on the rise around the world. As it has spread, so has our insight that this is a hatred … more

Laura Paull | 5/27/20