Tag: board of deputies

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Israel & Palestine Opinion

Israel is an apartheid state – and South Africans agree

An Israeli woman protests on June 23, 2020 in Tel Aviv, Israel [Amir Levy/Getty Images]

Using Black oppression to exonerate Israel isn’t just immoral, it’s ahistorical.

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Essay Jewish Culture The Jewish Left

Happy Yom Kippur!

Arbeter Fraynd editors and their Jewish anarchist comrades sitting for a portrait
Editors of Arbeter Fraynd and their anarchist comrades, London, 1912

Revisiting the Yom Kippur Ball.

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Antisemitism & Antiracism Report UK

“I don’t think he would have the boldness to stand up in shul and say that”

Rabbi Andrew Shaw (right) with former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, January 2015. (Photo: The United Synagogue)
Rabbi Andrew Shaw (right) with former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, January 2015. (Photo: The United Synagogue)

In private messages to his former congregants, a leading British rabbi sounds off on race, gender and sexuality.

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Antisemitism & Antiracism Opinion UK

Jewish antiracism must start at home

#JewsForBlackLivesMatter risks reinscribing Ashkenormativity.

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Israel & Palestine Opinion UK

The Board of Deputies’ neutrality on annexation will doom it

The Board gained prominence through its forthright stance on Labour antisemitism. Its mealy-mouthed response to annexation will condemn it to irrelevance.

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Antisemitism & Antiracism Opinion UK

Starmer is serious about antisemitism – but not other racisms, it seems

Starmer has adopted the Board of Deputies’ Ten Pledges and with them, the Board’s disregard for forms of racism beyond Jew-hatred.

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Opinion The Jewish Left UK

Don’t be fooled, Brexit is a Jewish issue

Brexit is a Conservative attempt to overturn the internationalist legacy Jews have so heavily relied on. Why then does our communal leadership seem unbothered by it?