Shabbat Shalom from The Forward, "What do you do when you’re harassed for being Jewish on the street?" For Life Editor Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt this is not a rhetorical question, this week she writes about what happened to her husband and son on the Upper East Side last Friday night. We are closely following a trial in White Plains, NY, where a majority-Orthodox board has cut funding to the public school system. Lawyers for the plaintiffs, which include the NAACP, accuse the district of being run by the "tyranny of the majority." Ari Feldman has been in court all week and has filed a string of dispatches. And, mazel tov to Harry Potter! The first Yiddish edition of the series sold out in less than 48 hours. All of this and more in this week's edition. A gutn shabes, John Kunza Audience Development Editor @johnkunza P.S. Have you heard? We've launched a new newsletter called "Our Time" which celebrates Jewish womanhood, check it out! P.P.S. Love this newsletter? Don't keep it to yourself. Forward to a friend.
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