| Nov 8, 2023 | HP Featured|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyTwo years ago, filmmaker Mohannad Abu Rizk asked children in Gaza about their dreams. One young girl responded, “My dream is for us to stay alive and to live in peace. We have a right to stay alive.” She’s one of the 2.2 million Palestinians living in the densely...
| Jun 7, 2023 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe 1920s were both good and bad times for the Jews of Germany. They’d been granted the same legal rights as other Germans and were established in respected professions. They were mostly treated as worthy of dignity. But that changed as antisemites scapegoated Jews...
| Mar 1, 2023 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyJewish communities across the country have been targeted with violence or harassment as anti-semitic hate crimes reach record levels. In late January, a man tossed a Molotov cocktail — a firebomb — into the entrance of a New Jersey synagogue in the middle of the...
| May 4, 2022 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThousands of years of history is a lot to capture in one Jewish American Heritage Month, which is celebrated in May. But an old joke admirably condenses it into one sentence: “They tried to kill us, we survived, let’s eat.” Passover is a perfect example of this...