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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 478

Jewish activism

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, left, and Joel Kaplan, named in January 2025 as Meta's president of global affairs, after leaving a meeting with a Republican senator in Washington, D.C., September 19, 2019. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images/AFP )
January 19, 2025, 12:52 am
US Jewish groups pushed Meta to crack down on hate speech. Now, it’s reversing course
The company will loosen restrictions and halt automation to detect most violations as it adapts to a political era increasingly shaped by Trump and the Republican Party
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
One Mitzvah A Day founder Mandana Dayani. (Jojo Korsh)
January 16, 2025, 1:34 am
New project urges US Jews and allies to spur change via one ‘good deed’ text per day
Jewish American activist Mandana Dayani says bipartisan One Mitzvah A Day can help mobilize pro-Israel activists, fight antisemitism, and show gratitude to supporters
By Jordana Horn
Eyal Feldman will swim across Lake Skaneateles in Upstate New York to raise money for Israelis orphaned by the October 7 Hamas atrocities. (Courtesy)
August 15, 2024, 1:40 pm
US-Israeli maker of Boy Butter lubricant attempts record-length swim for Oct. 7 charity
On August 17, Eyal Feldman will paddle 16 miles nonstop across upstate New York’s Skaneateles Lake to benefit orphans in Israel who lost their parents in the Hamas onslaught
By Cathryn J. Prince
Lizzy Savetsky wears a Star of David top ahead of the United Jewish Appeal Generosity Gala in New York City, March 14, 2024. (Courtesy)
March 21, 2024, 5:08 pm
Modern-day ‘Queen Esther’ Lizzy Savetsky gets real about her Israel activism
The social media star, former beauty queen, New York socialite and proud Zionist talks about her nonstop work and how she’s learned to drop the haters and empower fellow Jews
By Jordana Horn
Rachel Goldberg on day 98 since her son, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, was abducted by Hamas, in Jerusalem, January 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
February 2, 2024, 11:19 am
Parents of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin launch online educational toolkit
‘Everyone Counts’ initiative designed to give people worldwide a pathway to effective, values-based activism on the plight of the hostages in captivity since the October 7 massacre
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
Artist Arthur Szyk working at his desk in New York City, 1944. (Courtesy Irvin Ungar, curator emeritus, The Arthur Szyk Society)
September 29, 2023, 10:50 pm
Connecticut university shows largest display of artist Arthur Szyk’s work in 50 years
The human rights activist who fled the Holocaust and created iconic human rights art is featured in Fairfield University’s ‘In Real Times’ exhibit, open September 29
By Cathryn J. Prince
Rabbi Laura Bellows, now Dayenu's director of spiritual activism and education, waves matzah as she encourages major financial organizations to divest from fossil fuels at a rally in Washington, DC, April 20, 2022. (Bora Chung | Survival Media Agency / Courtesy of Dayenu via JTA)
August 30, 2023, 1:32 am
US Jewish activists pass on massive climate march scheduled for Rosh Hashanah
Sandwiched between the UN Climate Ambition Summit and Yom Kippur, the March to End Fossil Fuels falls in a narrow window that excludes some US Jews, while others embrace it
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Rabbi Laura Bellows, now Dayenu's director of spiritual activism and education, waves matzah as she encourages major financial organizations to divest from fossil fuels at a rally in Washington, DC, April 20, 2022. (Bora Chung | Survival Media Agency / Courtesy of Dayenu via JTA)
May 14, 2023, 4:42 am
US Jewish institutions awaken to climate crisis, with hundreds pledging action
Long a top priority for American Jews, climate change hasn’t been high on the agenda for the organizations serving them – but that’s beginning to change
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Volunteers clean Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in Brussels, Belgium, during a Yom Hashoah Stolpersteine cleaning event co-organized with the European Jewish Association, April 27, 2022. (Courtesy of Make Their Memory Shine)
April 18, 2023, 6:44 am
In grassroots effort, young Europeans clean ‘stumbling stones’ to gleam like beacons
Make Their Memory Shine organization brings together people of all backgrounds to commemorate Holocaust, identify common values and respect differences
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Protestors hold signs during a rally in support of worldwide abortion rights in Paris, after the US Supreme Court's overturned America's constitutional right to abortion, on June 24, 2022. (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)
June 24, 2022, 9:56 pm
Jewish groups gear up to battle abortion bans after Roe overturned
Orthodox welcome Supreme Court reversal despite questions over Jewish halakhic take on issue, with some envisioning court challenge based on Jewish religious freedom
By Ron Kampeas
San Francisco Giants' Gabe Kapler walks to the dugout prior to a baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds in Cincinnati, May 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Aaron Doster)
June 10, 2022, 4:38 am
MLB’s Gabe Kapler follows a Jewish sports tradition with National Anthem protest
From Hank Greenberg to Aly Raisman, Jewish athletes have often spoken up against injustice. Here’s a short history of others who have stood up for their values
By jacob gurvis
Martin Abramowitz, center, and his sons Jacob, left, and Yosef pose at the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, at 29 Washington Place in Greenwich Village. The original building is gone but the site is marked with a plaque. (Courtesy Martin Abramowitz/ via JTA)
March 25, 2022, 4:40 pm
Union activist struggles with his father’s possible role in Triangle Shirtwaist fire
In a book whose release is timed to coincide with the March 25 anniversary of the NYC blaze that killed 146 garment workers, Martin Abramowitz describes searching for painful truth
By Susie Davidson
Vanessa Wruble is one of the organizers behind an August 2021 march for voting rights. (Mark Hartman/JTA)
August 28, 2021, 6:31 am
Meet the longtime Jewish activist behind this weekend’s US voting rights marches
Vanessa Wruble, who withdrew from Women’s March due to antisemitism among leadership, is channeling activism in March On in favor of expanded US voting rights
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Mahdi Bray, Executive Director of Muslim American Society (MAS) Freedom, speaks about President Barack Obama's comments regarding the mosque near Ground Zero at the National Press Club in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
November 16, 2020, 4:06 am
87-year-old activist rabbi: Shifting world is perfect place to practice balance
Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow offers new words to old prayers to mirror a turbulent reality in ‘Dancing in God’s Earthquake,’ his 28th book
By Melanie Lidman
Hannah Alper with the 10th grade class at an all-girls secondary school in Kenya during a service trip with the organization Me to We, June 2016. (Courtesy)
July 17, 2020, 9:51 pm
Meet Canada’s 17-year-old Jewish ‘Greta Thunberg’ who says activism is a mitzvah
Where many see the world going down the tubes, Hannah Alper sees opportunity to improve — and wields considerable clout after starting her blogging career at the ripe old age of 9
By Robert Sarner
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