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CNBC has this story up: Muslim leaders expand campaign to abandon Biden in 2024 over Israel-Hamas war: Muslim leaders announced on Saturday that they are going national with an effort to dissuade voters from reelecting President Joe Biden in 2024 due...
by Dan K
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on Sat Dec 30, 2023 at 11:42 AM PST
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Amid rising tensions on campuses across the country over the Israel-Hamas war, a prominent rabbi and imam have been meeting with�Jewish and Muslim student leaders at New York City campuses�on a ...
by Charles Jay
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on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 07:30 AM PST
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Antisemitic hate crimes on American college campuses are nothing new. But things have gotten much worse since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in which Hamas raped, murdered, and kidnapped civilians in Israel—overwhelmingly Jews, but those of other...
by Ian Reifowitz
451 comments
on Thu Nov 09, 2023 at 08:00 AM PST
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Yes you read it right, it is not an exaggeration, it's not hyperbolic, it's not emotional and it's not temporary. The signs were there, the support was weaning off with the GWOT and Trump’s rhetoric in the rearview mirror for some time, not the focus...
by choclate
58 comments
on Mon Oct 30, 2023 at 01:21 PM PDT
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Some questions are, at the same time, both easy to answer and unanswerable. For instance, “What is Hamas’s goal?” The easy answer is the destruction of Israel and the death or expulsion of all Jews from the Middle East. But that is not going to happen...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Mon Oct 16, 2023 at 04:19 PM PDT
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October 12, 2023 by Netta Ahituv and Nadin Abou Laban In Haifa and Jaffa, joint Jewish and Arab patrols seek to prevent violence on both sides. In the south, Bedouin residents risk their lives to search for victims of Hamas terror. In the shadow...
by mettle fatigue
132 comments
on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 05:48 PM PDT
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UPDATE: Friday, Dec 9, 2022 · 8:53:48 AM +00:00 · Starr Mignon It has been bought to my attention that the creative team behind the racist comic book has been getting deleted from social platforms and having their ads rejected for quite some times now....
by Starr Mignon
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on Wed Dec 07, 2022 at 01:36 PM PST
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Welp, the GOP continues to blame mass shootings on everything but guns. Doors, pot, mental illness, video games, and now smartphones. Meanwhilst, Cucker Tarlson insists that we need “traditional masculine values” which, since he extols male sports,...
by elenacarlena
102 comments
on Sat Jun 11, 2022 at 05:00 PM PDT
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Welp, folks, now that the right to abortion and the entire right to privacy may be about to be demolished,�it’s past time to realise that we need our candidates to win the popular vote over and ...
by elenacarlena
50 comments
on Sat May 07, 2022 at 05:00 PM PDT
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This is our periodic reminder post on the urgency of spreading the word and encouraging higher COVID booster uptake and good mask usage (esp. N95’s and KN95’s) among PoC communities throughout the US, who unfortunately have been lagging in booster...
by Tweedledee5
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on Fri May 06, 2022 at 01:34 PM PDT
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New York, N.Y. I traveled to Delhi in South Asia just before the Pandemic to open the office of ‘The J. Luce Foundation India.” This is in Bodhgaya, Bihar on the border with Nepal. Eight years prior, I had met our team there on a Buddhist pilgrimage...
by Jamesluce
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on Tue May 03, 2022 at 08:44 AM PDT
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As I prepare to walk in the footsteps of St. Francis of Assisi in a few short weeks, I’m immersing myself in his life. At this time in the life of our world, I’m finding myself drawn to Francis’s peacemaking skills. St. Francis exercised peace...
by mbenefiel
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on Thu Mar 31, 2022 at 11:18 AM PDT
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In a move that sets the U.S. back in terms of religious freedom, the Supreme Court on Friday unanimously rejected an argument that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wrongfully applied federal law governing how surveillance-related evidence can...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Tue Mar 08, 2022 at 02:15 PM PST
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They celebrate Ramadan and Hanukkah together, guard Jewish cemeteries on the anniversary of Kristallnacht and are discussing a tour to Poland and visit to Auschwitz [ — a] motorcycle club that roams the highways of Denmark, promoting coexistence...
by mettle fatigue
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on Fri Jan 21, 2022 at 06:00 PM PST
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On the last day of September, the antisemitic terrorist who in 2019 shot and killed Lori Gilbert Kaye and wounded three others in a Poway, California, synagogue was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. One of the wounded was...
by Ian Reifowitz
235 comments
on Sun Oct 24, 2021 at 07:29 AM PDT
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This story was originally published at Prism. By Deepa Ayer My generation faced a crisis point on Sept. 11, 2001. Within 24 hours of that terrible day, I remember being part of emergency calls and meetings with Washington, D.C. area activists to...
by Prism Guest Writer
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on Fri Sep 10, 2021 at 08:15 AM PDT
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On the streets of American cities, Jews are being attacked simply for being Jewish. In my hometown of�New York City—home to over 1 million Jews—a man named Joseph Borgen was set upon by�a group ...
by Ian Reifowitz
225 comments
on Tue Jun 08, 2021 at 08:29 AM PDT
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And just like that, Ramadan, the holy month Muslims worldwide look forward to each year, has come to an end. With today being the last day of fasting for many across the globe, special meals are being prepared to celebrate the holiday of Eid-al-Fitr....
by Aysha Qamar
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on Wed May 12, 2021 at 02:56 PM PDT
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Another day, another white privilege racist flaunting COVID-19 mask wearing, common decency, and breaking the law. A trifecta of the worst in some Americans. Nahla Ebaid said the incident occurred while she went to a local Walgreens in Fort Lauderdale...
by Merlin196357
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on Mon Apr 12, 2021 at 09:51 AM PDT
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5APzfs4TB04 SOME TERRIFIC JEWISH MAGHREBI GNAWA background music by Ravid Kahalani TO LISTEN TO WHILE YOU READ, BUT YOU MIGHT WANT TO TURN THE VOLUME DOWN A LITTLE! :D Among Sephardic and Mizrachi communities in Morocco,...
by mettle fatigue
1 comments
on Fri Apr 02, 2021 at 11:33 AM PDT
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