Palestinian Israeli lawyer Amir Fahori argued in his recent piece for the Israeli left-wing publication Sicha Mekomit that none other than Professor Aharon Barak, a liberal jurist who served as president of the Supreme Court of Israel from 1995 to 2006, has himself argued that the Jewish..…

., combining Jewish specificity and solidarity based on shared class interests — has given definition to the locally focused efforts of Jewish justice organizations across the country, from Jews for Racial and Economic Justice to the Progressive Jewish Alliance. ..…

People throw around the phrase tikkun olam [repair of the world] a lot to say, 'There is something inherently Jewish--something deep within our millenia-old tradition--about striving for justice.' ... For many American Jews who came of age in the 1930s, '40s and '50s, going on strike with..…

The Conservative movement will petition Israel’s High Court of Justice, the nation’s version of the Supreme Court. . Ethiopian Israelis, who are Jewish, and African migrants, who are not, face systemic racial discrimination in Israel. ..…

But far more American than Israeli Jews say “leading an ethical and moral life” (69% vs. 47%) and “working for justice and equality” (56% vs. 27%) are vital to being Jewish. ..…

Nearly half (47%) say living an ethical or moral life is essential to being Jewish, while roughly one-third say observing halakha (35%), living in Israel (33%) or working for justice and equality in society (27%) are essential to being Jewish. ..…

Jews are more likely than Israeli Jews to say leading an ethical and moral life is essential to their Jewish identity (69% vs. 47%); the same is true of working for justice and equality (56% vs. 27%). Jewish Americans also are more likely than their Israeli counterparts to emphasize..…

Other known funders of the ACLU’s 501(c)(4) “social welfare” nonprofit arms include the ACLU Foundation; Equal Justice Works; Proteus Action League; GLBTQ Legal Advocates; and the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties. ... The..…

All judges are tribalists: Jewish, Italian, female, and Republican judges never judge against one of their kind. ..…

Clinton's sole pick for Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is the second woman to serve there and Jewish of the court since 1969.. ..…

Several centuries the sages of Jewish tradition announced their feeling that court which must execute justice even once is one. ..…

Late last week when Boston-based federal appellate Judge Stephen G. Breyer, who also is Jewish, was presumed to be the pick, White House aides said privately that Mr. ... No Jewish justice has served since 1969, when Abe Fortas resigned. . The president went out of his way..…

More than half (56%) say that working for justice and equality is essential to what being Jewish means to them. ..…

It has been customary in France and Ireland that at least one of the judges should be a non-Catholic—as for much of the last century it was customary for at least one Supreme Court justice to be Jewish. . Today all members of the United States Supreme Court are either Catholics or Jews,..…

There is no way in which my American and modern experience of life could be reconciled with Jewish orthodoxy. So that my ancestors, if they were able to see and judge for themselves, would find me a very strange creature indeed, no less strange than my Catholic, Protestant, or atheistic..…

It has its roots in Israel’s Independence Proclamation, which promised that the Jewish state “will be based on the precepts of liberty, justice and peace taught by the Hebrew prophets,” and in the December 1948 letter from Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, and others to The New York..…

Perhaps most importantly, there have also been good responses from Jewish Labour and left organizations, such as Jewish Voice for Labour, Jews for Justice for Palestinians, and Jewdas. . ..…