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Rep. Nikema Williams of Georgia and RWDSU President Stuart Appelbaum visit the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Birmingham, Alabama, after meeting with workers and organizers involved in the facility's unionization effort, March 5, 2021. (Megan Varner/Getty Images/JTA)
April 9, 2021, 10:33 am
Meet the longtime Jewish labor activist going up against Amazon in Alabama
Stuart Appelbaum speaks about his Jewish roots and what the fight against the mammoth online retailer has changed in the American labor movement
By Andrew Lapin
Clockwise from top left: Rebecca Kuss, Melody Muhlrad, Yoshi Silverstein, Hanah Bloom (Kuss: Emily Berge-Thielmann; Muhlrad: Courtesy of Muhlrad; Silverstein: Courtesy of Silverstein; Bloom: Courtesy of Bloom/ all via JTA)
March 25, 2021, 3:31 am
Asian-American Jews react to Atlanta spa murders, rising anti-Asian hate crimes
Though predating the pandemic, bigotry has escalated in the last year. Here’s what leaders and active members of the Asian-American Jewish community have to say, in their own words
By Asaf Shalev and Andrew Lapin
A Texas mask on March 3, 2021 in Austin, Texas. (Montinique Monroe/Getty Images via JTA)
March 5, 2021, 3:17 am
Dallas Jewish Conservatives plan ‘mask-burning’ party to mark end of mandate
Organizer says he’s not ‘personally anti-mask,’ but opposes government orders to wear one
By Andrew Lapin
Kosher Palate, a kosher restaurant in Dallas, prepares thousands of free hot meals to serve to Orthodox families affected by power outages during Winter Storm Uri, Feb. 17, 2021. (Courtesy of Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas)
February 19, 2021, 2:57 am
In a Texas battered by cold, Jewish communities join desperately needed response
Synagogues, Jewish groups, kosher restaurants and individuals scramble to address their needs and those of neighbors as storm knocks out swaths of state’s infrastructure
By Andrew Lapin
Old covers of the Arizona Jewish Post. (Courtesy of the Arizona Jewish Post via JTA)
February 13, 2021, 7:48 pm
Arizona’s 75-year-old Jewish Post to cease operations amid pandemic
Biweekly publication, which moved to online-only format in 2020, says declining readership and loss of philanthropic support during health crisis led to shutdown
By Andrew Lapin
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