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Progressives to Jewish establishment: Ray Kelly doesn’t deserve support

Members of the coalition Jews Against Islamophobia take to the Jewish Week to deliver a searing indictment of Ray Kelly, the NYPD chief.

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The Jewish establishment goes to bat for Ray Kelly and the NYPD

The Jewish Community Relations Council has praised Ray Kelly as the best police chief ever. But critics say that Jewish institutional support for the NYPD will harm Jewish-Muslim relations.

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Jewish left continues to take on the Simon Wiesenthal Center

A coalition of progressive Jewish organizations on both coasts yesterday slammed the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s honoring of the civil rights-era Freedom Riders while “engaging in anti-Muslim bigotry that is no less destructive than that against which the Freedom Riders protested,” … Continue reading

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