More American Jews are calling Israel an ‘apartheid’ state, and big organizations are struggling to fight the trend “Organizations look at many members of the Jewish community, including particularly younger ones, and disregard them,” said the head of one group.
3 Jewish filmmakers were arrested in Nigeria, accused of working with rebels. Their families say they were just donating a Torah scroll. A separatist movement in Nigeria is led by a Jewish activist and has embroiled the country’s small Jewish community.
Sponsored For these US Jews of color, encountering Israel’s diversity was an eye-opening and affirming experience “I grew up around Jews who looked a certain way: Eastern European,” said Amy Albertson, a Chinese-American Jew. “Until I went to Israel I didn’t know there were so many other types of Jews.”