Right Now, an advocate group for Asylum Seekers in Israel, is pleased to co-host with Ameinu, a screening of the film African Exodus in Los Angeles in April. The film, by Brad Rothschild, excellently provides historical and contemporary context for this growing issue, and discusses the current situation in Israel and its “looming humanitarian crisis.”
“Do you think that one’s Jewish?” “Probably. She’s from New York and she’s hairy.” Suzie and I were watching RuPaul’s Drag Race, and we were
Scene: Hebron, June 1997. Palestinian stone throwers clashing with IDF soldiers in the Old City. A friend and I who are living in Ramallah as
Add social justice to your Passover seder with these 57 haggadah supplements: racial justice, Israel/Palestine, LGBT, labor, immigration, and more.
In our day, we consume a voracious amount, without much thought to how each act of consumption could reveal our relationship to both the physical and the numinous worlds. Does this make us like Nadab and Abihu, offering an unscripted pan of incense in either our ignorance or our arrogance, ignoring the order of things as well as the necessary physicality of the gift that would connect us to the One beyond, thinking that an odor alone will do?
We interview Sam Bick and David Zinman, co-founders of Treyf Podcast, about their activism, the failures of Jewish media, and Canadian Jewry.
Labor MK Merav Michaeli sends a powerful message to Netanyahu and his leadership that their own incitement is now “eating them alive.”
Ladino songwriter and vocalist Sarah Aroeste’s playful, original take on children’s music is a call to treasure an endangered Jewish culture.
Support African asylum seekers in Israel: LA film, DC refugee seder, and Israel’s second seder at Israel’s Holot detention facility.