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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 566

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Pastor Charlie Grant shows a binder of information he has about Rosenwald Schools and Julius Rosenwald, gathered as he worked to restore a building in Hampton County on Tuesday, July 11, 2023, in Hampton, South Carolina. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
August 6, 2023, 2:16 pm
Efforts underway to honor Jewish founder of century-old US Black school network
When education was segregated and authorities barely funded Black students, Julius Rosenwald gave millions to form Rosenwald Schools; new movement eyes national park in his memory
By Jeffrey Collins
A view of Moshav Givat Ye'arim from the Aircraft Trail. (Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am)
July 26, 2023, 5:59 pm
Expansion of ‘admissions committees’ law allows more towns to cherry-pick residents
Passed Tuesday, law enables greater number of close-knit towns to operate panels that rate applicants on ‘sociocultural’ compatibility; NGO argues law encourages discrimination
By Charlie Summers
Illustrative: The Har Gilo settlement in the West Bank, south of Jerusalem, October 12, 2020. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
June 7, 2023, 3:03 pm
Right-wing MKs spearhead effort to broaden controversial ‘admissions committees’ law
Villages with up to 1,000 households and West Bank settlements would be allowed to cherry-pick residents; Arab rights group condemns bill as strengthening a system of segregation
By Charlie Summers
Palestinian laborers ride a bus en route to the West Bank from working in Tel Aviv area, Israel, Monday, March 4, 2013. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
August 9, 2022, 7:22 pm
Bus company sorry after driver boots Palestinians at Jewish passengers’ behest
Company says probe found that passenger boarded bus in Bnei Brak and impersonated government official, pressuring rookie driver to force workers off
By Michael Horovitz
World War II veteran Lawrence Brooks holds a photo of him taken in 1943, as he celebrates his 110th birthday at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, on September 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
January 5, 2022, 10:30 pm
Oldest US veteran of World War II, Lawrence N. Brooks, dies at 112
Amid segregation in US armed forces at the time, Brooks was assigned as caretaker in the Black 91st Engineer General Service Regiment, but still experienced enemy fire during war
By LEAH WILLINGHAM and Rebecca Santana
'Crisis' in Levittown, Pennsylvania, when the Black Meyers family moved to town, August 1957 (public domain)
February 16, 2021, 11:34 pm
How America’s Jewish ‘king of the suburbs’ kept Blacks out of suburbia
70 years ago, William Levitt completed his first namesake suburb east of New York City. Veterans were encouraged to buy houses on the cheap – unless they were Black
By Matt Lebovic
Education Minister Rafi Peretz visits a kindergarten in Givat Shmuel, August 29, 2019. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
December 15, 2019, 2:12 pm
After Ethiopian-Israeli kindergarten scandal, ministry vows end to segregation
‘Non-heterogeneous’ preschools set to be shut after report earlier this year that kids of Ethiopian origin faced discrimination; minister: Racism unacceptable in education system
By Sam Sokol
Sefy Bililin and her 3-year old daughter Pri'el. (Facebook)
September 22, 2019, 10:30 pm
Kiryat Gat kindergarten shuttered after allegedly segregating Ethiopian children
Kids sent to other daycare centers across southern town after viral Facebook post exposes purported discrimination
By ToI Staff
Sefy Bililin and her 3-year old daughter Pri'el. (Facebook)
September 4, 2019, 8:47 pm
Uproar after kindergarten allegedly segregates Ethiopian children
Education Ministry and MKs condemn incident in Kiryat Gat; city council members summoned for meeting
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of a nursery in a Jerusalem hospital's maternity ward. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)
May 28, 2019, 4:18 pm
Maternity wards let Jewish woman ask for bed without Arab roommate — report
Workers at 5 Israeli hospitals illegally agree to request by undercover reporter; Health Ministry says room allocation should be only on medical basis
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of New York City councilman Chaim Deutsch. (YouTube)
June 11, 2018, 8:27 am
NYC councilman offers gender-segregated beach for Jewish, Muslim constituents
Chaim Deutsch says arrangement will enable religious people to enjoy sun, sea and sand, but some social media users respond to plan with racist insults
By JTA
The names of lynching victims are inscribed on weathering steel columns that hang from the ceiling at The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, seen on April 20, 2018. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images/via JTA)
April 28, 2018, 7:52 am
What a new tribute to black lynching victims learned from Holocaust memorials
Nearly 4,400 people were murdered in lynchings from 1877 to 1950, according to the Equal Justice Initiative which initiated the newly opened National Memorial for Peace and Justice
By Ben Sales
Sammy Davis Jr. shortly before his death in 1989. (Alan Light)
February 22, 2018, 2:18 am
Sammy Davis Jr. charms the world again in new documentary, ‘I Gotta Be Me’
The success of a film on the most famous one-eyed, African-American Jewish singer ever to have lived, surprises even its director, Sam Pollard
By Rich Tenorio
During the 1930s in Yaphank, New York, members of the Nazi party march through the Long Island town, where they also organized a pro-Hitler summer camp (Public domain)
August 13, 2017, 11:29 am
American laws against ‘coloreds’ influenced Nazi racial planners
With neo-Nazis and white supremacists violently protesting in Charlottesville, Virginia, echoes of the country’s awkward history of ties to Nazism
By Matt Lebovic
Richard Gere in Hebron's Shuhada Street, March 13, 2017. (Screen capture: Channel 2)
March 23, 2017, 9:36 pm
Richard Gere likens Hebron to segregation in ‘Old South’
Touring West Bank city, actor says closed Shuhada Street reminds him of Jim Crow laws from US before civil rights movement
By ToI Staff
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