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Regular updates on different social justice events and topics both in CBST and beyond, including Koleinu, our Congregation Based Community Organizing initiative, as well as our exciting work in building a Jewish LGBTQ movement.

An Islamic Cornerstone

“The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.” –Psalms 118:22

The most recent cover of Time magazine asks the question, “Is America Islamophobic?” I find it jarring that this is even a question. Islamophobia, particularly following 9/11 in our country, is alive and being actively overfed by hate-mongers to the point that a man recently stabbed a New York City cab driver after asking if he were Muslim, and shouted “‘Assalamu alaikum — consider this a checkpoint!’” This parody of state-sponsored violence is abominable. I wish I could rinse my hands of it and claim that Jewish ...

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