World News
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Why The 36 Award
Antisemitism is, unfortunately, a fact of life in the United States and around the world. Jewish people continue to experience harassment, discrimination, and violence. Antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories exacerbate the problem. Antisemitism does not exist in isolation; it both reflects and accelerates the erosion of democratic norms, institutions, and trust, emerging alongside other forms…
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The 36 Award Winner: Building a Public Health Response to Antisemitism
Myrieme Churchill, Executive Director of Parents for Peace (P4P), has been named an inaugural recipient of The 36 Award, honoring a decade of work building what may be the first confidential intervention program in the world focused specifically on antisemitism. Churchill leads P4P, a national public health organization serving families, schools, and communities across the…
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Building the Legal Case Against White Nationalism
David Brody, founder of the Alliance of Jewish Americans, has been named an honorable mention for The 36 Award in its inaugural year. Brody has spent his career in courtrooms and coalitions confronting hate, and he believes Jewish safety in the United States depends on standing with every community that white nationalism targets. Brody traces…
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Rebuilding Black-Jewish Solidarity in Los Angeles
Patrisse Cullors, an organizer who co-leads Bridging Histories, a Black-Jewish dialogue series at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, has been named an honorable mention for The 36 Award in its inaugural year. Her work rests on a belief that the safety and dignity of Black and Jewish communities are bound together, and that…
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Teaching Christians to Confront Antisemitism
Brendan Murphy, founding director of the Bearing Witness Institute at Marist School in Atlanta, has been named an honorable mention for The 36 Award in its inaugural year. For three decades, Murphy has worked from a simple conviction: confronting antisemitism requires more than telling people it is wrong. People must understand its historical roots, build…
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Building a United Front Against Antisemitism
Wynn Howell, co-founder and state director of the Colorado Working Families Party (CO-WFP), and Ilana Spiegel, an elected member of the University of Colorado Board of Regents, have been jointly named an honorable mention for The 36 Award in its inaugural year. The recognition honors years of building trust among Jewish, immigrant, labor, and progressive…
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Louise Nevelson designed a work of art and of worship. Now, as its congregation downsizes, it is seeking a museum home.
(JTA) — Louise Nevelson, the storied American sculptor, created “The White Flame of the Six Million,” a 50-foot-long, 11-foot-high bimah sculpture incorporating a Torah ark and serving as a Holocaust memorial, for Temple Beth-El in Great Neck, New York, where it has remained for more than 50 years. Now, due to demographic change in suburban…
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A renewed Iran war is only a matter of time, Israeli experts warn
(JTA) — President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have said they don’t want to see a renewal of the war against Iran – but they are issuing stark public warnings to Tehran that could bring the simmering conflict to a boil. Trump endorsed Netanyahu for Prime Minister on Sunday, explaining that his…
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Antisemitic terror rattled the Rockies last year. Now Boulder could have a mayor who won’t say whether Israel should exist.
(JTA) — BOULDER, Colo. – Voters in this Rocky Mountain foothills college town could soon elect a mayor who won’t affirm that Israel should exist, just a year and a half after an antisemitic terror attack struck the city’s historic downtown. Protests against Israel’s operations in Gaza cropped up in Boulder in the months following…
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Was this campus rabbi fired over her fiance’s criticism of Israel? She says yes, the Hillel says no
A rabbi fired a month into her job at Emory University’s Hillel says she was dismissed over her fiancé’s criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian activism. Hillels of Georgia, the nonprofit that runs the campus group, disputes that, saying it lost confidence in her honesty and judgment soon after she started in the role. The rabbi,…
