JewBelong, a nonprofit organization aimed at education and community building, has put up...
are up in three locations across San Antonio.
JewBelong, a New Jersey-based nonprofit dedicated to education and community building, has posted billboards at three of the busiest intersections in the city: 281 and Josephine, 410 and Wurzbach, and Highway 90 at West Military Drive. So far, at least six cities have received billboards, but San Antonio is the first with a sign in Spanish.
The billboards are part of a national campaign aimed at spreading awareness of the increase in antisemitism in the U.S., according to. Billboards previously were posted in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Las Vegas and Miami. Messages have included things like"I promise to love being Jewish 10x more than anyone hates me for it,""3,500 years of antisemitism doesn't make it right" and"We're just 75 years since the gas chambers.
The Spanish-language billboard in San Antonio shares that last message, in addition to an English-language version."Hate is painful. Hate is scary. It's painful. It doesn't allow us to become who we are," JewBelong Co-Founder Archie Gottesman told ABC."It just makes us feel less than like all of those terrible things about marginalized groups, which again, this country is trying to work on and should be working on.
The billboards will be up only for the next three weeks unless the nonprofit raises the necessary funds to keep them up longer. Those interested in donating can find a link onThere are more than 5.8 million Jewish adults in the U.S., or 2.4 percent of the adult population, according to a
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