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Alma Hernandez, a Mexican-American Jew and daughter of immigrants, is running for the Arizona House of Representatives and founded a progressive Jewish group in Tucson. (Courtesy of Hernandez)
Less than one day after Alma Hernandez began a Jewish fundraiser for migrants on the southern border, she had an SUV full of food, diapers and hygienic products ready to donate.
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Attendees at a Jewish protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New York City on June 21, 2018.
The protest was imbued with Jewish texts and liturgy. It was organized by T’ruah, the liberal rabbinic human rights group, and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice.
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Central American asylum seekers wait as U.S. Border Patrol agents take them into custody near McAllen, Texas, June 12, 2018. (John Moore/Getty Images)
The group, which is aiming to visit the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Centralized Processing Center on June 21, includes rabbis from all four major Jewish religious movements and is part of a larger delegation of 40 interdenominational clergy.
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A boy from Honduras is shown being taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents near the U.S.-Mexico Border near Mission, Texas, June 12, 2018. (John Moore/Getty Images)
A broad spectrum of Jewish groups have spoken out against the policy, along with many other religious organizations.
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A dried fruit and nut seller giving change to a customer in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market, May 7, 2018. (Ben Sales)
Regulars from all walks of Jewish Jerusalem life conduct business on a first-name basis — and pay in cash. The food is kosher — and the entire market shuts down for Shabbat before sundown on Fridays.
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Michael Chabon speaking at The New Yorker Festival in New York, Oct. 10, 2014. (Andrew Toth/Getty Images for The New Yorker Festival)
Novelist Michael Chabon delivered a diatribe against Jewish inmarriage, as well as Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, in a commencement speech to newly ordained Reform rabbis.
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Aaron Schlossberg, a New York lawyer and Johns Hopkins alum, delivered a racist rant that went viral. (Screenshot from Twitter)
If you’re Aaron Schlossberg, the days of being an anonymous angry dude are over.
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Lex Rofeberg, 27, a rabbinical student, feels that the Shavuot tradition of eating dairy and studying Torah all night will be more appealing at a diner than it would be at a synagogue. (Courtesy of Rofeberg)
The relatively obscure festival celebrates the traditional giving of the Torah to the Israelites, and Jews have historically stayed up until sunrise on its first night studying holy books and eating dairy foods.
Read MoreJewish law, known as halacha, forbids Jews from charging interest to other Jews. So Jews are allowed to own mortgage agencies — and lend to non-Jewish customers — but they are not allowed to sell fellow Jews a 30-year fixed rate (or anything else).
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The Anti-Defamation League will be among several groups taking part in anti-bias training for Starbucks personnel. (Ari Perilstein/Getty Images)
When far-left activists look at the ADL, they don’t see a civil-rights group. They say the ADL supports domestic institutions perpetuating racism while defending what the activists call Israeli oppression of the Palestinians abroad.
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