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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 568

Civil Rights Act

President Joe Biden meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, September 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
September 28, 2023, 9:30 pm
Biden includes antisemitism in Civil Rights Act protections at 8 cabinet departments
Expansion includes victims of antisemitism and other forms of religious bigotry; White House launching a listening tour to hear from Jewish students about hostility on campus
By Ron Kampeas
Illustrative: a screenshot from the documentary 'Crossing the Line 2,' which depicts rising anti-Semitic activity on North American campuses. (Courtesy)
July 10, 2019, 10:12 am
Christian Zionists push bill to bolster US action against campus anti-Semitism
Motion advocated by CUFI proposes codifying IHRA definition under Civil Rights Act, but some say it would inhibit speech freedoms, criticism of Israel
By Ron Kampeas
Maud Mandel, the president of Williams College, speaking at the Association of Jewish Studies conference in Boston, December 16, 2018. (Tim Correira via JTA)
June 4, 2019, 9:57 pm
US education department to probe college for rejecting pro-Israel group
The federal agency’s Office for Civil Rights in Boston says it is looking into whether Williams College’s refusal to give official status to organization violated Civil Rights Act
By Marcy Oster
An illustrative photo of a man wearing a kippah. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images via JTA)
July 18, 2018, 5:09 am
In first, US judge says racial discrimination law applies to Jews
With ‘precedent-setting’ ruling, Magistrate Mark Hornsby says Judaism is a race and its adherents are therefore protected under 1964 Civil Rights Act
By JTA
Rabbi Jonah Pesner speaking at the NAACP North Carolina chapter. (Courtesy Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism)
October 31, 2016, 1:28 am
Jews and African-Americans seek more than foul-weather friendship
Leaders of both groups say that while campaigning for equality is nice, it is prolonged, meaningful relationships that will secure real change
By Cathryn J. Prince
Rabbi Jonah Pesner (screen capture: YouTube)
January 8, 2015, 10:53 am
Reform Judaism’s storied DC lobby gets a new leader
Rabbi Jonah Pesner, 46, a veteran Reform organizer and advocate, promises to tackle racial tensions
By ToI Staff
Six Reform rabbis pose outside the jail in St. Augustine, Florida, where they spent a night after being arrested protesting for civil rights 50 years earlier. Standing (from left to right), are Allen Secher, Israel Dresner, Jerrold Goldstein and Richard Levy. Sitting are Daniel Fogel, left, and Hanan Sills. (photo credit: Dina Weinstein/JTA)
June 27, 2014, 6:37 am
Rabbis jailed in civil rights protest 50 years ago return to Florida
To fight Jim Crow segregation in St. Augustine, Reform rabbis were enlisted in a battle Martin Luther King Jr. later called one of the movement’s most violent
By Dina Weinstein
Richard Friedman
June 30, 2013, 9:57 pm
Richard Friedman
When the quest for justice bends toward anti-Semitism
Louis Farrakhan’s presence at recent rallies in Alabama insults the legacy of those who fought for civil rights
Sharon Altshul
March 22, 2012, 9:06 pm
Sharon Altshul
Top 5 reasons segregation in Jerusalem is not like the Old South
I grew up in the South as segregation was ending and I want to share with y’all five reasons why segregation in Jerusalem is not the same
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