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Combating the Shocking Rise of Antisemitism in Health Care

Hilary Danailova in Hadassah · 31 Oct

In recent months, there has been a troubling rise in antisemitism within the healthcare sector in the U.S., exacerbated by the conflict in Israel and attacks by Hamas.

0 Israel Television/Film

A Human Lens: Teaching the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Through Film

Diane M. Bolz in Moment · 12 Feb

Meital Orr, a professor at Georgetown University, teaches a course titled "Re-examining the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Literature and Film" that explores how Israeli and Palestinian literature and cinema depict the Other.

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D.C. Police arrest Lyft driver who allegedly assaulted Chabad rabbi, now say it was possible hate crime

Ron Kampeas in JTA · 2 Feb

A Lyft driver in Washington D.C. has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a Chabad rabbi and the case is now being treated as a possible hate crime.

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Lyft lets go of driver who allegedly assaulted a DC rabbi and Chabad scion

Ron Kampeas in Forward · 30 Jan

Lyft has fired a driver who allegedly assaulted a member of a prominent Chabad rabbinical family in Washington, D.C. Rabbi Menachem Shemtov ordered a Lyft and asked the driver to turn down the music, but the driver became hostile and eventually punched Shemtov in the face.

0 Israel Television/Film

Visual Moment | A Cinematic Window on the Conflict

Diane M. Bolz in Moment · 16 Jan

Literary and film critic Meital Orr argues that films can provide a nuanced understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by capturing the perspectives of those who live it.

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The Antidote to Ableism

Judy Bolton-Fasman in Tablet · 4 Oct 2023

Rabbi Julia Watts Belser, a disabled woman, approaches Torah and Jewish tradition from a disability perspective, aiming to center the wisdom of queer, feminist, and disabled Jews.

0 Jewish Law Communities

Rabbi Barry Freundel Gets 6-1/2 Years for Mikveh Peeping

Forward · 16 May 2015

Rabbi Barry Freundel, a prominent Washington rabbi, was sentenced to 6-1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to 52 misdemeanor counts of voyeurism for secretly filming women naked in a ritual bath facility from 2012 to 2014.