Yona Zeldis McDonough
A Q&A with Roxane Van Iperen, who realized her house in the woods was once a refuge for Jewish children.
These Jewish Sisters Ran a Safe Haven During the Nazi Occupation
Tag: family separation
How To Save a Life in the Next 72 Hours
Nechama Liss-Levinson
These regulations, brought to you by the same people who decided to separate children from their parents, will be particularly loathsome for women and for those who are LGBTQ.
How Family Separation in the Holocaust Affected My Life Forever
Liat Katz
My father’s separation from his parents at a young age left him a broken, forever-grieving man. Sometimes I felt his body was physically there, but his soul had long left.
Thank You, AOC, for Inspiring Jews to Stand Up for Immigrants
Alice Sparberg Alexiou
“Her use of ‘concentration camps,’ which some Jews seem to believe belongs to them and them alone, forces us to look squarely at what is happening.”
What It’s Like to Help Immigrants at the Border Right Now
Eleanor J. Bader
“My grandparents’ stories motivate me to want to help people who are fleeing violence and brutality today.”
#MeToo, The Supreme Court, and Immigration Cruelty: Connected by Misogyny
JoAnn Abraham
It seems that women are being targeted on multiple fronts, almost as if #MeToo and its power have provoked a vicious backlash
Why We’re Protesting the Orthodox Union Every Monday
Rebecca Krevat
When we stand outside their doors on Mondays, we are saying: Orthodox Union, your constituency demands better.
The Cloth Mother and Trauma at the Border
JoAnn Abraham
The question is less about why the children are being separated from their adults and more about when this madness it stop and how soon will the children already wrenched from their parents be re-united with them
Stop Arguing About Holocaust Analogies and Do Something
Jordana Horn
The salient point here is that the Trump/Sessions “zero tolerance” policy offends us to the very core of our humanity––as Jews, as women, as parents, but most importantly as people. It offers zero tolerance to the very nucleus of what makes us human.
At the Border, We’re Seeing Exactly What America Is
Amie Newman
But it is who we are: what the United States is doing to families and children, specifically families and children of color, by ripping them apart at the U.S. border is part and parcel of an ongoing history. It is horrific and unbearable and inhumane. But it is exactly what America is and continues to be.