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Full archive →The one café Jerusalem can't leave alone
Feds open Title VI probes at two Cal State campuses. The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is investigating San José State and San Francisco State over complaints that Jewish students were threatened, shunned, and excluded from classrooms, that anti-Israel…
Read the full edition →Heroes and villains, so far
Full ledger →Hero
Tyler Steele
Converted to Judaism in spring 2023, asked his Apple manager in Virginia for Shabbat off that September, was told no, complained about religious discrimination in November, and was fired in…
Villain
Apple
Same story. The company denied Shabbat accommodation, fired the man who asked for it, settled the federal lawsuit, and, per the agreement, "denied wrongdoing." Debra Lawrence, the EEOC's Philadelphia regional…
The Weekly Kvetch
The Danube is so low this month that dozens of German warships are sitting in the open air near Prahovo, Serbia. Nazi Germany's Black Sea fleet scuttled up to 200 of them in September 1944 to slow the Soviets, and some are still loaded with…
Read the whole complaint →Parashat Ki Teitzei · candles in Miami 11:32 PM
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