10 Ways Jewish Students Can Join The Resistance

By Benjamin Gladstone and Misha Vilenchuk August 23, 2017

Originally published in The Forward. Watching the events of these past weeks unfold, we were confronted with a feeling of desperation. Nazis rioted in Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, and anti-Black slogans, threatening a synagogue. The president of the United States sided with racism and violence, drawing praise from the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists. The New England Holocaust Memorial, a landmark…

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Boston, Get Ready for a Purim-Themed Protest

By Misha Vilenchuk March 15, 2017

On Purim, Jews celebrate a story of resistance. On Sunday, March 19, hundreds of Jews and Muslims, as well as young adults and students from Boston’s variety of faith and cultural communities, will do the same at #ProjectPurim: Resilience in Unity. Participants plan to flood the Harvard Science Center Plaza to protest racism and xenophobia….

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