Jaylen Brown, VP of the National Basketball Players Association, appears to be a fan of Israel United in Christ.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated IUIC as a hate group for its antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ and anti-white rhetoric.
“How do you walk away from a Ph.D. at Stanford because of antisemitism?”
@EmmaAudreyGoss
reports on the toxic climate at Stanford, where Jewish students feel alienated, and at least one considered dropping out.
Michael W. Twitty (
@KosherSoul
) is the first Black Jew to win
@JewishBook
's book of the year award for his stunning memoir "Koshersoul." Mazel tov!
Twitty called the book "a love letter to Jewish peoplehood" when I interviewed him in August for
@jewishsf
.
“People think, because there’s something terrible happening 7,500 miles away, it is OK to behave poorly here, and that strikes me as exactly the sort of anti-intellectualism that universities are supposed to combat, not embrace.” - Stanford sophomore
@tab_delete
"The film was a piece of art with a political message that was ahead of its time — black lives matter even in the hood."
@toure
on John Singleton's indelible "Boyz N the Hood."
“We have for the past 99 years been living as Jews in both form and practice and we are not about to change that.” Rabbi Gershom Sizomu responds to an Israeli government decision to not recognize his community, the Abayudaya Jews of Uganda.
“With these guidelines, you should be equipped to hate a Jew the Jewish way, for petty personal reasons, rather than right-wing conspiracy talking point reasons.”
Thank you for this important resource
@joshgondelman
“We can’t properly address the growth of anti-Semitism without an understanding of how that hatred is originating, spreading, and being acted upon.” Wise words from
@PopChassid
.
At our family Thanksgiving gathering, my cousin Carole was very excited to tell me about how her book club recently read
@KosherSoul
’s latest book and made different recipes from it. “We really took it seriously!” she said.
For
@JTAnews
, I explored the origins of the idea, recently amplified by Ye (the artist formerly known as Kanye West), that Black people are the "real" Jews.
"We counted 430 inaccuracies, many countering the words of the Torah. However it was the negative portrayal of the prophets Moses, Aaron and Miriam that were the most damaging to the story."
Read
@BluegrassRabbi
's review of "Testament" ➡️
@jewishsf
Well, if this is the end of Twitter, it’s been real.
Be kind to each other. Read more books. And don’t blame Jews for your problems—unless, of course, you’re also Jewish and Jews are actually the source of your problems. If that’s the case, I can relate!
Israel's Ministry of Interior has notified about 40 families belonging to the African Hebrew Israelite community based in Dimona that they must leave the country within 60 days or they will be deported, according to Dimona Mayor Benny Biton.
I watch a lot of documentaries.
#DearMamaFX
is one of the best series I've seen. The intros to each episode are works of art. The storytelling — weaving Pac's story with his mother's — is complex and moving. Glo, Pac's aunt, keeps it real. Watch it!
NPR's
@arishapiro
— who as a child in Fargo attended services at both Orthodox and Reform synagogues — will be at
@bookpassage
on Friday, 3/31 promoting his new memoir, “The Best Strangers in the World.”
@EmmaAudreyGoss
's story ➡️
@jewishsf
Important question from
@yumcoconutmilk
: “Why does black anti-Semitism — admittedly a pernicious and ugly force — get so much more attention than white anti-Semitism, though it poses less of a threat?”
“To be a Black girl from Jersey who decides that Dana Owens is no longer big or accurate enough to describe who she is,” says the journalist Danyel Smith, “and to change her name to Queen Latifah — it was just bold.”
In the novel "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow," a Jewish character creates a Holocaust computer game similar to
@br
's real board game "Train." But "Train" goes uncredited.
I wrote about the controversy & the ethics of Holocaust games ➡️
@jewishsf
On seeing an Asian Jewish Seder plate (based on his African American Seder plate): “I cried because it means that things are changing. We’re doing the work, and someone’s child will be able to see themselves in something that is expanding the boundaries of Torah.”
Israel is moving forward with the deportation of over 100 African Hebrew Israelites who lack legal status in the country, according to community activists.
TOMORROW: Jewish satirist Andy Borowitz (
@BorowitzReport
) will be in S.F. for a
@cityartssf
event.
His new book, "Profiles in Ignorance," traces the arc of vacuity and lies that have, in Borowitz’s view, infected the American conservative movement.
TONIGHT: Michael Twitty (
@KosherSoul
) will speak about his new memoir at
@JCCSF
.
“I’m kind of blatant about the idea that being American is by default being intersectional," the Black, Jewish and gay author told me recently.
Details ➡️
@jewishsf
“It doesn’t make sense that the most prominent Black Jew in entertainment is going through this right now,”
@ylove
told me. “I feel like there’s antisemitic forces at play here regarding the war.”
High Holidays during a pandemic means virtually attending services wherever you want. I'm at Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation in Chicago, led by Rabbi Capers Funnye.
Are you a JOC (Jew of color) artist looking to promote your work?
@bechollashon
has put out a call for visual, written, or performance pieces that respond to the current moment through a Jewish lens. Deadline to submit is August 15.
@RabbiRuth
A multiracial Jewish family appeared on network television for quite possibly the first time last week. I spoke w/ paterfamilias
@theJoshuaRS
about being on
#HomeSweetHome
, working w/ series creator
@ava
, and searching for a home in the Jewish community.
It turns out there are actually 3 active NBA and G League players who are Jewish.
Domantas Sabonis' wife Shashana told me today the
@SacramentoKings
All-Star center converted before they wed in 2021.
"I love this idea of 'Jewpanese' because...it's me saying that I am worthy of each of these cultures."
For
@jewishsf
,
@EmmaAudreyGoss
spoke with my friend Carmel Tanaka about her oral history project on folks with Jewish & Japanese heritage.
For years, I had been hearing land acknowledgment statements read before Jewish events in the Bay Area. I got curious about that practice, and about what Jewish solidarity with Native Americans looks like beyond those statements.
My story in
@jewishsf
:
“Fine said Jewish interest in wrestling has increased in recent years, in part thanks to Maxwell Jacob Friedman (known simply as “MJF”), the current AEW world champion and an outspoken and proud Jew.”
While Kyrie Irving serves a suspension for promoting an antisemitic film, Orthodox Jewish hooper Ryan Turell makes his pro debut in the G League. What a world
Hebrew Israelites: Black people are the descendants of the ancient Israelites!
Mormons: We’re the descendants of the ancient Israelites!
This guy: Palestinians are the descendants of the ancient Israelites!
Jews: We’re so tired.
If this is true then the entire idea falls apart (it appears to be largely true according to genetics); further Yemenis and Morrocans were also converts.
Palestinians are the descendants of the ancient Israelites.
During her confirmation hearings today, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson referred to Yah Kai v. Napper, a 2016 trademark infringement case she heard as a D.C. district court judge that involved members of the African Hebrew Israelite community.
A bit of good news from Israel: Yosef Kibita, the first member of Uganda's Abayudaya Jewish community to apply for citizenship in Israel, has received temporary residency status following a court battle. (via Sara Cohen/FB)
“No one who has heard the Black Hebrew Israelites on street corners with megaphones in hand can deny the racial trauma they cantankerously amplify nor ignore the Black suffering, from slavery to the present day, from which they desperately seek relief.”
@AvivaKlompas
@WashWizards
Aviva, these are Maccabi Ra'anana players, not Wizards players. The Wizards don't wear shorts with Israeli flags on them. Maccabi Ra'anana played several games against NBA teams this month during the NBA pre-season.
This week,
@AlexEdelman
brings his hit Broadway show “Just for Us” to San Francisco.
@lesatnews
chatted with the comedian a few weeks ago about identity and antisemitism ➡️
@jewishsf
A Palestinian student at El Camino Community College in SoCal referred to "the oppressive apartheid state of Israel" in her graduation speech on Fri.
She said she was inspired by a speaker who singled out Israel during CUNY Law School's graduation in May.
Twitty: “The fact that we — our mothers, the women — used food to express love when they knew that their children could be the victims of enslavement or genocide at any moment. So they prayed over the food, and those prayers became part of the tradition.”
There’s been lots of discussion about who Hebrew Israelites are/aren’t, but little attention has been paid to how many there are & how their ideology spreads.
I looked at the data & spoke with folks inside & outside the movement for
@JTAnews
.
On Clubhouse yesterday, Amar'e Stoudemire said Jews of European descent are converts and the U.S. government conspired to keep Black people from knowing their true identity as the children of Israel. (h/t
@VocabMalone
)
On Jews and African Americans: “We’re the only two peoples on the face of the earth that demand you eat awful things. Why do we have to eat our oppression?”
A new docuseries on Tupac Shakur and his mother Afeni features the rapper’s first manager in the Bay Area, a Jewish woman named Leila Steinberg.
I spoke with her about what it was like mentoring (and learning from) Pac ➡️
@jewishsf
#DearMamaFX
If you're a print subscriber, keep your eye out for this year's Hanukkah cover in your mailbox, the first ever
@jewishsf
x
@maimonides_nutz
collaboration
More than 200k people of African descent live in Israel, including Jews, Hebrew Israelites and asylum seekers.
For
@JTAnews
, I spoke with several Black Israelis who are sharing their stories and defending Israel on social media.