One Appalachian community is responding to violence of the past and present targeted at religious groups. At their annual reading of the names ceremony, the B’nai Sholom Synagogue in Huntington, West Virginia, brought together community members in a ceremony to remember victims of the Holocaust. Just a few blocks away, […]
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Editor’s note: This story is part of a series examining the social and health injustices resulting from increasingly intense storms. It’s the result of a collaboration between Scalawag and Environmental Health News, a nonprofit publication dedicated to covering environmental health topics including climate change. This piece was originally published in Scalawag, […]
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Editor’s note: This story is part of a series examining the social and health injustices resulting from increasingly intense storms. It’s the result of a collaboration between Scalawag and Environmental Health News, a nonprofit publication dedicated to covering environmental health topics including climate change. This piece was originally published in Scalawag, […]
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Supporters of the bill argue that paramedics face the same situations as police, but some emergency medical technicians worry about blurring the line between medical care and law enforcement. “[That’s] … what police are supposed to do—and we’re not.” In March, Ohio Governor John Kasich (R) signed House Bill 79, […]
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The shooting at a Pittsburgh Synagogue last weekend sent shockwaves across the country and the Jewish community is responding. Victor Urecki, the rabbi at B’Nai Jacob Synagogue in Charleston, West Virginia, shared his thoughts on moving ahead in the wake of the tragedy. Urecki, a member of the Rabbinical […]
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The participation of the Dor Hadash congregation in a national celebration to welcome refugees may have drawn hateful attention from the gunman who killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill on Saturday. Dor Hadash, one of three congregations that shares the synagogue, was among 300 […]
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