(JTA) — A white nationalist was photographed appearing to urinate on an Israeli flag at a Pride parade in Detroit. Some 40,000 attended the Motor City Pride event Saturday in downtown Detroit. During the event, members of the National Socialist Movement marched on the parade in protest of the… Read more »
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Reform rabbis are finding it tough to love Israel
Members of the Reform movement and Hebrew Union College reading from the Torah at the public square in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Nov. 16, 2017. (Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash90)
(JTA) — When Israeli security guards roughed up the head rabbi of the Reform movement at the Western Wall, ripping his suit jacket and shoving a can of mace in his face, Rabbi Jen Lader had a dilemma: How could she talk about the violence without being boring? Lader,… Read more »
In Detroit, Jewish resurgence led by young aims to transform city
DETROIT (JTA) — Blair Nosan grew up in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield, attended the University of Michigan and then, like thousands of other young Jews from the beleaguered state, moved away. Though she grew up in a heavily Jewish area Nosan, 26, had felt disconnected both from… Read more »
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