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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 623

social equality

US Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, on March 22, 2022. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
March 23, 2022, 8:00 am
Black-Jewish civil rights alliance brought up in Supreme Court confirmation hearing
Biden’s nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson says ‘the idea of equality — justice — is at the core’ of her children’s school, which was founded by Jewish families
By Ron Kampeas
The unrecognized villages around Ramat Hovav in southern Israel suffer from a high level of air pollution from nearby chemical evaporation ponds, December 28, 2017 (Yaniv Nadav/FLASH90)
January 26, 2022, 11:43 am
Doughnut Economics launches in Israel with call to update priorities, protect Earth
With new Hebrew website, translation of seminal book due in July, group aims to spread word about economic model that seeks to keep people from falling into the hole of deprivation
By Sue Surkes
Photographer Andrew Feiler at the Carver School in Coffee County, Georgia, working on his project documenting the sites of former Rosenwald schools. (Jim Cottingham/ via JTA)
April 29, 2021, 4:01 am
Jewish photographer makes it his mission to preserve legacy of Rosenwald schools
Andrew Feiler’s book ‘A Better Life for Their Children’ captures the institutions funded by a German-Jewish philanthropist for Black students — which started change in the US
By Dave Schechter
Amos Danieli in his home in Karmei Yosef (Mitch Ginsburg/Times of Israel)
January 15, 2019, 5:17 pm
Commando who saved Netanyahu’s life 50 years ago sets up rival political party
Amos Danieli pulled the drowning future PM out of the Suez Canal in 1969; his Jewish-Arab Lemaanenu party aims for social equality
By Stuart Winer
Oxford University. (Shutterstock)
October 20, 2017, 3:01 pm
Oxford University accused of ‘social apartheid’ for low number of black students
10 of elite institution’s 32 colleges accepted no black British students in 2015; Cambridge, where 6 colleges took no UK black students, blames low application rates
By ToI Staff
Hundreds of Israeli Christians hold banners in a rally against what they said was state discrimination in funding their schools, at the foot of the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth on September 1, 2015 (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
July 26, 2016, 5:02 am
Christian schools still unable to access much-needed grant money
Conditions for accessing NIS 50 million too strict, official says; government says criteria were known in advance
By Dov Lieber
Hundreds of Israeli Christians hold banners in a rally against what they said was state discrimination in funding their schools, at the foot of the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth on September 1, 2015 (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
July 20, 2016, 7:37 pm
Israel’s cash-strapped Christian schools get overdue grant
Church official welcomes 50-million-shekel funding, but says network of 47 schools still lacks rights, respect
By Dov Lieber
Arab Israeli Christian students hold placards during a protest in Jerusalem to demand more funds for Christian schools, on September 6, 2015. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)
June 16, 2016, 5:50 am
Israel’s cash-strapped Christian schools to get helping hand
Social equality minister says she will ensure the 47-school network receives NIS 50 million promised by Education Ministry
By Dov Lieber
Israel sharpshooters in 2009. (Nati Shohat Abir Sultan /Flash90)
June 23, 2015, 9:05 pm
Pro shooter fires off lawsuit over Shabbat event
Israeli Shooting Federation says it can’t reschedule championship to accommodate Orthodox finalist Avishai Brett
By ToI Staff
Hadash leader Ayman Odeh in the Knesset, January 28, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 3, 2015, 1:11 pm
Ayman Odeh wants to be Israel’s Martin Luther King
Top Arab politician insists on pursuing a civil rights agenda for his country, even as he agonizes over bitterly conflicting nationalist narratives
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Crowds at the Mamilla shopping mall in Jerusalem (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash 90)
October 19, 2014, 3:42 pm
Israelis as rich as most Europeans – report
Although there is concern about how assets are distributed, people in Israel are doing just fine, Credit Suisse says
By David Shamah
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