Insist Leaders and Police Clarify Their Stands
DC’s people face a dire threat to health and well-being in these post-election days. We deserve leadership that will protect all of us, and that means more of us, in- and outside of DC, will have to speak up now. [This piece, posted at 4:30 on 11/13, was updated on 11/15].
Virus Exposure
DC is at grave risk for spread of the deadly Covid-19 virus when our quarantine regulations are ignored, as with the planned #MillionMAGA gathering this weekend (11/13–15/20). …
It’s time to re-examine and recommit.
Remember that letter so many Jews signed back in June? Hundreds of Jewish organizations, congregations, and clergy “[spoke] with one voice when we say, unequivocally: Black Lives Matter.” Signatories representing many thousands of Jews agreed to heed Black-led calls for “accountability and transparency from government and law enforcement” and promised to “build a country that fulfills the promise of freedom, unity, and safety for all of us, no exceptions” (600+ Jewish Organizations Say…).
Have Jews and our organizations honored that promise? How? What more is required? And what does this election period demand of Jews who say ‘Black Lives Matter’?
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Virginia Avniel Spatz
DC-based, Chicago-born writer and journalist focusing on community, anti-racism, and Judaism.
