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Shira Hanau
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries addresses the conference at UJA-Federation. Courtesy of JCPA
September 25, 2019, 1:33 pm
Blacks, Jews standing together again
By Shira Hanau
US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on August 20, 2019. Getty Images
August 21, 2019, 11:15 am
Trump: Jews who vote Democratic are ‘disloyal’
By Shira Hanau
Bernie Sanders: questioned on Israel’s West Bank occupation. Photos by Scott Olson/Getty Images
July 10, 2019, 11:29 am
From Iowa to New Hampshire, Israel policy in play
Interest groups dig into early Democratic primary states
By Shira Hanau
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders with IfNotNow volunteers last weekend in New Hampshire. Photo courtesy of IfNotNow
July 3, 2019, 11:29 am
IfNotNow heading to New Hampshire
By Shira Hanau and Marcy Oster
Members of the new activist group Never Again Action during a protest Sunday at an ICE facility in Elizabeth. Nur Shlapobersky
July 3, 2019, 10:43 am
Stepped-up activism on ‘moral crisis’ of immigration in Elizabeth, tri-state
As situation at southern border worsens, Jews’ anger, advocacy rises
By Shira Hanau
Diller Teen Fellows is an international Jewish leadership development program for high school sophomores and juniors that focuses on Jewish identity, Peoplehood, Israel, tikkun olam, and pluralism. Pictured is the Greater MetroWest NJ cohort at a Shabbaton.
June 12, 2019, 11:26 am
Jewish teens: ‘We don’t want our parents’ Judaism’
Revealing findings on Gen Z by Jewish Education Project
By Shira Hanau and Johanna R Ginsberg
Teens from Maplewood-South Orange USY on a President’s Day trip to Philadelphia. Courtesy Sam Jacobson
May 8, 2019, 11:39 am
Layoffs at embattled United Synagogue
Conservative movement’s congregational arm trimming budget, reorganizing
By Shira Hanau
One of the private villas for rental near Orlando as part of the “A Different Pesach Program.” Adifferentpesachprogram.com
April 24, 2019, 1:03 pm
Let my people stay
Guests at an Orlando Passover program faced eviction from their rented villas and a food shortage when the owner ran off
By Shira Hanau
Mass defection of Jews to President Trump is unlikely since they are not single-issue Israel voters. Getty Images
April 17, 2019, 12:34 pm
GOP as ‘natural home’ for Jews?
Between partisan talk on Israel and anti-Semitism, Republicans make case for Trump
By Shira Hanau
Sheila Katz set to take over as CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, replacing Nancy Kaufman. (Ralph Alswang/NCJW)
April 10, 2019, 11:45 am
At NCJW, passing a torch to millennial generation
Former Hillel vice president on the struggles ahead over intersectionality, #MeToo and feminism
By Shira Hanau
Israel support across the aisle: House Majority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), left, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) speak at this week’s AIPAC conference. (Getty Images)
March 27, 2019, 11:11 am
AIPAC walking a shaky bipartisan tightrope
Pro-Israel lobby buffeted by strong political crosswinds at annual conference
By Shira Hanau
URJ JewV’Nation Fellowship’s Jews of Color cohort. (Aliza Greenberg for URJ)
February 27, 2019, 12:41 pm
Jews of color share untold stories in new podcast
By Shira Hanau
“Mass incarceration is our generation’s Civil Rights Movement,” said Marc Howard, founder of the Georgetown University Prisons & Justice Initiative at a panel on criminal justice at the JCPA conference in Washington D.C. this week. Twitter/JCPA
February 13, 2019, 12:04 pm
JCPA makes expansion push amid increasingly treacherous politics
Call to double budget, personnel for vital coalition-building and community relations work
By Shira Hanau
Rabbi Ruth Gais, right, with Lucy McDiarmid at the Upper West Side Women’s March on Jan. 19. (Courtesy Ruth Gais)
January 23, 2019, 12:04 pm
Staying at the intersectional table?
Community divided as Women’s March movement plans next steps
By Shira Hanau and Johanna R Ginsberg
People display signs as thousands take part in the Women's March on Washington 2018: March On The Polls! on the National Mall January 20, 2018 in Washington, DC. Getty Images
January 9, 2019, 2:03 pm
Jewish women caught in Women’s March crossfire
As movement splinters over anti-Semitism, Jewish women torn as march day nears
By Shira Hanau
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