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Clergy See Birth of New Movement for Civil Rights Calls for justice outweigh concerns about anti-Semitic elements among marchers. Stewart Ain Staff Writer
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Protestors marching across the Brooklyn Bridge this week in support of George Floyd. Rabbis say the protests could re-energize black-Jewish relations.
he worldwide reaction to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police two weeks ago is seen by some rabbis as a “turning point” in the quest for racial justice. Others believe the marches in cities across the country, ones marked by huge, multi-ethnic and multi-racial crowds, could be the catalyst for a new era in black-Jewish relations. Still other Jewish spiritual leaders, not wanting bias against Jews to
be shunted aside, are voicing concerns about the perceived anti-Semitism of the Black Lives Matter movement itself. And several rabbis are also complaining about what Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch called the “politically incompetent and morally deficient national leadership” at a time when there is an “assault on the guardrails of democracy.” In pulpits all over the country, rabbis, the vast majority of whom are voicing support for the protestors, are nonetheless grappling with a tangle of emotions.
A Catskills Summer Is Back on Track
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Bungalow colonies expect to return to something like normal. Steve Lipman Staff Writer
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or a while there, it looked like there’d be no summer — at least a traditional summer in the “mountains” — for many mostly Orthodox Jewish New Yorkers fleeing sweltering city sidewalks.
But armed with bottles of hand sanitizer near mailboxes and instructions for grocery deliveries, operators of bungalow colonies in the Catskill counties of Sullivan, Orange and Ulster are looking at a saved — and perhaps even a smash — season. It won’t be a typical one, though, in this time of Covid-19.
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16 18 21 Paradise found: Lansman’s bungalow colony in Woodbourne. COURTESY OF LANSMAN’S
In a typical year, families who drive up from Brooklyn and Manhattan to Scott Rosmarin’s bungalow cottages in Monroe tend to spend the Memorial Day weekend there before going back
to the city. They return in late June or early July, when their schools close for the summer. In the weeks before the late May
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