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When Injustice Goes Unchecked and Concealed, What Message Does This Send to Children?

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Laquan McDonald Chicago Memorial from Protestors
December 07, 2015 The Killing of Laquan McDonald In October 2014, Laquan McDonald was shot and skilled by police officer Jason Van Dyke.  Thirteen months later, the recorded incident was released to the public. The day before its release, Van Dyke was arrested for first-degree murder. The disturbing video shows seventeen-year-old McDonald being shot for fifteen seconds—the majority for which he was down on the ground. At the time of the shooting, a spokesperson for Chicago…
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How Nostra Aetate Transformed Catholic-Jewish Relations

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by: Jonathan A. Greenblatt | October 27, 2015 PBS - Religion & Ethics Newsweekly The promulgation, on October 28, 1965, of Nostra Aetate, the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on the Church’s Relations with Non-Christian Religions, may be the most important moment is post-Holocaust Jewish-Christian relations and interfaith relations writ large. In its fourth chapter, Nostra Aetate effectively overturned centuries of what the noted French Jewish historian…
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Louis Farrakhan’s Pleas for Justice are Blunted by Bigotry and Calls to Violence

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by: Jonathan Greenblatt | October 08, 2015 The Washington Post From Charleston to Baltimore and Ferguson, it’s undeniable that our country continues to wrestle with racism and inequality. But recently there have been some notable and hopeful developments — including bipartisan prison reform and the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the South Carolina statehouse. This weekend in Washington, a major demonstration will take place that is billed as a call…
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Global Anti-Semitism: Selected Incidents Around the World in 2015

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December 31, 2015 Argentina October 18, 2015 - Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Ríos – A Jewish cemetery was desecrated with a swastika.  August 25, 2015 - Buenos Aires – “Jew and mobster” were spray painted on a subway station in reference to Mauricio Macri, head of the government of the City of Buenos Aires and a presidential candidate.  August 1, 2015 – Sauce Viejo, Santa Fe – Graffiti reading &ldquo…
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Race Talk: Engaging Young People in Conversations about Race and Racism

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High School Students Taking Part in Group Discussion Circle
For Educators Because discussions of race and racism are part of our public discourse, educators feel a sense of responsibility to bring these topics into their classrooms—because young people want to be part of the conversation and should be.  If handled effectively, these discussions provide opportunities for timely learning. Below are suggestions and strategies for having classroom conversations with young people about race and racism. Prior to these discussions and…
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New ADL Poll Finds Dramatic Decline in Anti-Semitic Attitudes in France; Significant Drops in Germany and Belgium

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Update of ADL Global 100 Poll Shows Anti-Semitism Markedly Higher Among Muslims in Six European Countries New York, NY, June 30, 2015 … In the aftermath of the shocking violence against Jews in Western Europe the past year, the level of anti-Semitic attitudes among the general population in France showed a dramatic decline, while Germany and Belgium registered significant reductions, according to a new poll from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released today. The ADL poll of adults in…
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David Duke

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For Law Enforcement David Duke, perhaps America's most well-known racist and anti-Semite, promotes anti-Semitic and white supremacist views as the leader of the white supremacist European American Unity and Rights Organization, as a writer of anti-Semitic tracts, and, in recent years, as an international figure who has promoted his anti-Jewish ideology in Europe and the Middle East, devoting particular attention to Russia and the Ukraine. Duke has been active in the white supremacy…
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The Rachel Dolezal Teachable Moment

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by: Jinnie Array June 19, 2015   Rachel Dolezal, President of the Spokane, Washington chapter of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), made headlines and became the top trending item on Twitter last week when it was discovered that she had been posing as Black for many years. In her interview on the Today Show, she continued to assert: “I identify as Black.” These events have sparked strong emotions—anger, confusion, sympathy,…
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Swimming Pools and Segregation: A Long History

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Pullen Park public pool in Raleigh, NC closed in 1962 because of four Black male swimmers
June 15, 2015 In Summer 2015, an incident caught on video captured a police officer outside a community pool who appears to be waving his gun at young partygoers who approached him as he tried to subdue and eventually hold down a teenage girl. She was wearing a bikini because she was at a pool party. The party was held at the community pool in the Craig Ranch North subdivision, which is predominately white although McKinney, Texas is racially diverse. A group of African American…
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Dr. Leon Bass: Educator, Advocate for Justice, and True Hero

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by: Naomi Mazin April 01, 2015 This week, the world lost a true hero. Dr. Leon Bass, who turned his personal and life-altering experiences with racism and anti-Semitism into opportunities to educate, inspire action in others and bear, in word, deed and character, the mandate of “Never Again,” died on Saturday, March 28th at the age of 90. ADL joins the world in mourning his loss. As a young man, Leon Bass grew up in a country divided by racial prejudice. He often shared…
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To Confront Racism, We Must Also Look In the Mirror

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by: Jinnie Array March 16, 2015 Last week, disturbing video emerged of fraternity brothers from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) chapter at the University of Oklahoma laughing while singing a racist chant: “There will never be a ni**** SAE. You can hang him from a tree, but he can never sign with me. There will never be a ni**** SAE.” The news comes on the heels of the recent findings from a Department of Justice investigation in Ferguson, MO which, among other things,…
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Shattered Life of Child Holocaust Survivors

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by: Bloeme Evers-Emden, Ph.D. | January 02, 2013 Among the many terrible measures the Nazis took against the Jews, the worst consequence was the disintegration of the family, especially the separation of children from their parents. When the deportations of the Dutch Jews began in July 1942, most people went, trusting that they could survive. But when the Germans' methods became more and more brutal, it was understood that something terrible was going on. Starting in the autumn of 1942…
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From Selma to Ferguson: Standing Together for Justice

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We March With Selma
March 02, 2015 What do you know about the events in Selma, Alabama in the 1960’s? What part of that history speaks to you? This year marks the 50th anniversary of the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. In the history books, we know this as Bloody Sunday, where 600 peaceful protestors were met with brutality. As events unfolded, the media captured photos and film of what would later become the impetus for thousands to become a part of the movement. Dr. King and his followers…
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Bittersweet Freedom

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by: Lorraine Array January 22, 2015 "After Auschwitz, the human condition is not the same, nothing will be the same." - Elie Wiesel   January 27th marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Birkenau Concentration Camp by the Russian army at the end of World War II.  For those who were able to survive the horrors of Auschwitz, finally hearing the words “We’re free! We’re free!” echoing across the camp barracks must have seemed…
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Beyond the Dream, Teaching King in Context

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Martin Luther King Hand Raised
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is Monday, January 16, and many educators will take the opportunity to teach about King and his enormous contributions to our society. As educators, how we approach the teaching of this holiday makes an impact on how students understand the larger context of the Civil Rights Movement and whether they make a connection between the past struggles to the current day and their own lives. Here are some thoughts about teaching the topic in a meaningful way…
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Beyond Ferguson and Staten Island: Where Do We Go From Here?

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by: Oren Segal December 05, 2014 In the wake of two grand jury decisions—in Ferguson, MO and Staten Island, NY—not to indict the police officers who were involved in the killing of black men, the time has come to ask ourselves: Where do we go from here? There are a myriad of ideas and legislation on the table--diversity training for the police, funding to provide body cameras for police officers and legislation to tighten standards on military-style equipment for local police…
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Letter to His Excellency Foreign Minister Luis Leonardo Almagro

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December 02, 2014 His Excellency Luis Leonardo Almagro Minister of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay Palacio Santos: 18 de Julio 1205 Edificio: Colonia 1206 Montevideo, Uruguay Dear Mr. Foreign Minister: We write to express our sincere appreciation regarding the statement issued on November 18, 2014, in which Uruguay strongly condemned the brutal terrorist attack inside a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood in Jerusalem, killing four Jews at…
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Global Anti-Semitism: Selected Incidents Around the World in 2014

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December 31, 2014 Argentina December 17, 2014 - Buenos Aires - Swastikas were found etched in the doors of the Avodá Jewish community center.  December 7, 2014 - Santiago del Estero - A Jewish cemetery was desecrated. Tombstones were destroyed, monuments were uprooted and photos were displaced. November 11, 2014 - Buenos Aires – “Do good to the country, kill a Jew” was found spray painted in the Once neighborhood, an area that has a large population…
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Letter to Her Excellency, President of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

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July 18, 2014 Her Excellency Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner President of the Argentine Republic Balcarce 50, CP 1064 Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires Argentina   Dear Madam President: On the twentieth anniversary of the July 18, 1994 terrorist bombing of the AMIA-DAIA building in Buenos Aires, we once again recall the 85 innocent Argentinian victims who died tragically and the hundreds who were wounded on that day. Madam President, we appreciate your…
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