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To fight hate, these Brooklyn-based nonprofit professionals wrote a comic book together

JL;DR SUMMARY We Are Brooklyn: Stories of Hope is a new comic book that features personal narratives highlighting diverse cultural intersections in Brooklyn, developed by nonprofit professionals participating in the We Are All Brooklyn Fellowship Against Hate. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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BrooklynHate CrimesJewish Community Relations CouncilDiversityComicsNonprofit OrganizationsIntercultural DialogueCommunity BuildingFellowship Program

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Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Its a personal story, a Brooklyn story and an American story one of six being told through an anti-hate project initiated by the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York."
Washington, D.C., Washington DC, United States
"Over the six-month fellowship, the group also took a trip to Washington, D.C., and some of the fellows put on a multicultural dance and music festival at the Brooklyn Childrens Museum in August."
Germany
"Voloj contributed his own story about growing up Jewish in Germany, and finding the name of his great-grandfather, which they share, in a copy of the text of the Torah at an old synagogue in Hungary."
Israel
"Medgar Evers College, Greenblatt said, has been largely spared from the campus antisemitism controversy that has roiled other campuses that are part of the City University of New York over the past year, since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel and the war in Gaza began."
Poland
"Interior view from We Are Brooklyn: Stories of Hope, showing recollections of the March of the Living trip to Poland by one of the fellows, Imam Muhammad Shahidullah."
Hungary
"Voloj contributed his own story about growing up Jewish in Germany, and finding the name of his great-grandfather, which they share, in a copy of the text of the Torah at an old synagogue in Hungary."
Springfield, Ohio, United States
"Trump repeated unfounded claims that Haitian immigrants were eating dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio, and the fellow asked for assistance to organize a rally in support of the Haitian community and children who were being bullied in school."
New York City, New York, United States
"Greenblatt, who grew up just outside of New York City, said she got to learn about different Jewish immigrant groups to New York, and about the diversity within her own cultural and religious community."

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