Posts Tagged ‘protest’
Welcoming Strangers
Local rabbi leads pilgrimage to border to protest U.S. immigration policies. Louis Finkelman Contributing Writer Photos by Rachel Goldberg Rabbi Josh Whinston of Temple Beth Emeth in Ann Arbor led a group of 20 people, including 11 of his congregants as well as some from Ann Arbor’s Beth Israel Congregation to El Paso, Texas, in…
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Ann Arbor Delegation Heads To Texas Border To Protest Treatment Of Asylum Seekers
Rabbi Josh Whinston of Temple Beth Emeth leads the group. Louis Finkelman JN Contributing Writer Rabbi Josh Whinston of Temple Beth Emeth in Ann Arbor will lead a group of congregants to join others from around the country on Thursday to protest the treatment of asylum seekers at the Texas border with Mexico. They will…
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March Of The Million Takes Place
Center for Israel Education September 3, 2011 Israeli streets in cities throughout the country were packed with more than 450,000 protesters in the largest demonstration in the history of the country. The protests were billed as the “March of the Million,” and were part of the summer long social justice protests in which mostly young…
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Commentary: Risking Arrest
About four years ago, I was in my first week of training for my summer fellowship in community organizing. I was still learning the basics of what I would be doing that summer and getting to know my cohort when they took us to a protest at the Los Angeles airport. It was one of…
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Why I Protest Gun Violence
People asked me why we walked out of school on March 14. They were bewildered when we walked out a second time on April 20. They were dumbfounded to see us standing in the pouring rain with candles after Santa Fe. Every time, my answer for them was the same: We are standing here because…
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DJJ at the Poor People’s Campaign
Praying With My Feet For the past two Mondays, I’ve had the pleasure and privilege of joining the Poor People’s Campaign (PPC) in Lansing as part of its “40 Days of Moral Action.” The PPC is committed to the lofty goals of ending the “four evils of racism, militarism, poverty and environmental devastation,” and recognizes…
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We Have a Problem — Israel
As exquisitely expressed in the Torah, Israel has inextricably been integral to who we are and why we exist. There is a direct and clear connection between the land, God and how we should act. This can be found in texts from the Book of Genesis to the writings of Roman Empire historian Josephus to…
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Some Uncomfortable Gaza Truths
Above: Thousands marched in solidarity with the residents of Gaza in the Israeli-Arab city of Sakhnin on Saturday, March 31. That the sequence of events that unfolded on the Gaza border March 30 was entirely predictable, and that the reaction to those events was even more so, does not make the aftermath any more palatable. The…
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Hope And Hostility
Pro-Israel and Palestinian demonstrators protest outside West Bloomfield JCC. A Palestinian protestor holds up a sign for the Jewish protestors to see. Tensions were high and emotions ran strong during a protest outside of the West Bloomfield Jewish Community Center Thursday evening. Both Israeli and Palestinian supporters stood on opposite sides of Maple Road with…
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