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Day: January 11, 2013

  • The Democrats’ Demographic Dreams

    The Democrats’ Demographic Dreams The American Prospect 2012-06-14 Jamelle Bouie, Staff Writer Liberals are counting on population trends to doom 
Republicans to a long-term minority. They shouldn’t. If Democrats agree on anything, it’s that they will eventually be on the winning side. The white Americans who tend to vote Republican are shrinking as a percentage…

  • Why The Next President Will Probably Be Black Too

    Why The Next President Will Probably Be Black Too BuzzFeed 2013-01-03 Ben Smith, BuzzFeed Staff If there is anything approaching an iron law of American politics, it’s this: The next president will be a member of the same race as the current one. It’s a rule that has held through 42 of 43 transfers of…

  • Race and Identity in the Dominican Republic: A Complex Topic

    Race and Identity in the Dominican Republic: A Complex Topic CIEE Santiago, DR Service Learning Blog CIEE Study Abroad Council on International Educational Exchange 2012-09-18 Hannah Loppnow St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin One piece of advice that really resonated with me from the first day of orientation was “put yourself out there.” We were…

  • President Obama on “The View”

    President Obama on “The View” Sojourners: Faith in Action for Social Justice 2010-08-02 Valerie Elverton Dixon Just Peace Theory President Obama visited with the five hosts of the ABC daytime talk show “The View.” People complained. He should have gone to the Boy Scout gathering. The office of the presidency ought to be above such…

  • Nation’s First Asian American Rabbi Inspires Social Change

    Nation’s First Asian American Rabbi Inspires Social Change KoreAm: The Korean American Experience 2011-12-06 Rebecca U. Cho Unorthodox Rabbi As a child, Angela Buchdahl stood out as the lone Asian face in the synagogue and at Jewish camps. Today, she holds the distinction of being the nation’s first Asian American rabbi and is helping to…

  • How Is Biracialism Changing America – And The Jewish community?

    How Is Biracialism Changing America – And The Jewish community? RepairLabs: Resources and strategies for volunteer engagement and Jewish Service-Learning 2012-02-10 Diane Tobin, President Institute for Jewish & Community Research As the parent of a Black Jewish child, I want my son to feel at home in the Jewish community. It seems to me that…

  • Welcome! Please Check Your Identity at the Door

    Welcome! Please Check Your Identity at the Door RJ.org: News & Views of Reform Jews 2012-06-27 Lacey Schwartz, National Outreach/New York Regional Director Be’chol Lashon I just got off the phone with a friend of mine who was planning on enrolling her daughter in a local Hebrew school, a decision she is now reconsidering. Why?…