south carolina

A rabbi stands at a podium during a Holocaust memorial event

A South Carolina rabbi’s Holocaust memorial speech was pulled from public TV for being too ‘political’

Rabbi Sam Rose had used his speech to inveigh against refugee, LGBTQ and book-ban policies.

Part of the permanent exhibition of the Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. (The University of South Carolina)

University of South Carolina to open Anne Frank Center

Racism in America and the South also will be explored, including in the story of Emmett Till, a Black teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955.

Some governors are letting houses of worship reopen. Synagogues aren’t going for it.

“It is premature to reopen shuls at this time,” Orthodox rabbis in Dallas said in an open letter.

Politics

Biden gets a sorely needed victory in South Carolina primary and slices into Sanders’ delegate lead

Ideas

I was barred from becoming a foster parent because I am Jewish

Politics

South Carolina is first state to adopt uniform definition of anti-Semitism

Israel

South Carolina is set to become first state to define anti-Semitism by law

Culture

This 27-year-old became the first American Jew to hold elected office — 242 years ago

United States

Jewish, Muslim students at South Carolina high school threatened

Culture

Photo of black police officer helping neo-Nazi goes viral

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