The Bread and Roses art exhibition opened on December 25 at the Minshar School of Art in Tel Aviv. This is the fifth year in which the Workers Advice Center (WAC) has enjoyed Minshar’s hospitality in hosting Bread and Roses. The purpose…
Tag: racism
Help! Racism!
In May 1992, teenager Helena Rap was stabbed to death on Bat Yam’s promenade by a Palestinian. Thousands of Bat Yam residents took to the streets in violent protest for five days. They looted, damaged property and attacked anyone who…
The Ghetto in the Ghetto
The past year has witnessed two cases in the religious schools where ultraorthodox Jews of West European descent (Ashkenazis) discriminated against ultraorthodox Jews of darker hues. In August 2009, private religious schools in Petach Tikva refused to admit Ethiopian Jews.…
Racism in High Places
WHERE RACISM takes root, it must be identified. Blindness to it is a common but dangerous blight. Equally common are the ploys used to excuse it. The most recent decision of Israel’s High Court of Justice, approving the “Law of…
Refusal on the Right
After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead…