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Daily Archives: September 15, 2023

U.S. President Joe Biden at a NATO summit in Brussels, March 24, 2022. Credit: Gints Ivuskans/Shutterstock.

White House releases Rosh Hashanah message

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The White House released the following message today from U.S. President Joe Biden ahead of Rosh Hashanah. Tonight at sundown, Jewish communities in the United States and around the world will celebrate Rosh Hashanah—the Day...

Shanah tovah!

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Wishing a sweet and happy New Year to us all!

Viewers Experience World of Deaf in ‘Since August’

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Now viewable on YouTube and other Internet platforms, Since August is a groundbreaking film in which most of the sparse dialogue is in American Sign Language with some English-language captioning. It takes hearing people into the...
Flooding in Libya, Derna, caused by Mediterranean storm Daniel. Two dams in the mountains above the city collapsed, sending floodwaters roaring down the Wadi Derna River and through the city center, sweeping away entire city blocks, Sept. 11, 2023. Credit: Adansijav Official/Shutterstock.

‘Israelis Without Borders’

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In the wake of the devastating floods earlier this week in Libya, the Palestinian Civil Defense Service, which operates under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority, announced that it was sending a 37-member team...
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Ramallah on May 25, 2021. Photo: Flash90

Abbas again voices his monstrous antisemitism

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Last month, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas came out with some ripe antisemitism. In a speech to the Fatah Revolutionary Council, he said that Hitler’s Nazis didn’t perpetrate the Holocaust because of hatred of...
Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. Credit: CiEll/Shutterstock.

Red Sox fire observant Jewish executive on day before Rosh Hashanah

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The Boston Red Sox fired its chief baseball officer, Chaim Bloom, on Thursday. Bloom is an observant Jew who has been a target of antisemitism from within the club’s farm system, as has been widely reported. He has...
The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Credit: ItzaVU/Shutterstock.

House bill amasses bipartisan consensus to continue Iran sanctions

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Three measures opposing violence and human-rights abuses perpetrated by the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism passed in the U.S. House of Representatives. On Tuesday, the Combat Rampant Iranian Missile Exports (Fight CRIME) Act (H.R. 3152) received 403...
Brian E. Nelson, under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at the Department of the Treasury. Credit: Official Treasury Portrait via Wikimedia Commons.

US Treasury sanctions Hezbollah supporters in South America

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A charcoal export business has now been exposed as one cog in a terrorism funding machine crossing continents to support Iran’s efforts to expunge the Jewish state. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets...
JNS publishes a weekly listing of antisemitic incidents recorded and found by Jewish, pro-Jewish and pro-Israel organizations; national and international news; and social media. By the Anti-Defamation League’s count, an average of seven instances of varying measure occur daily in the United States. (Dates refer to when the news was reported, not when the events took place.) Sept. 9 A synagogue in Los Altos, Calif., evacuated on Shabbat due to a bomb threat, and a cyclist spewed neo-Nazi insults and Holocaust denial at a Jewish couple in Los Angeles. X (formerly Twitter) sued California over a bill requiring social-media companies to file twice-annual reports on their efforts to fight hate speech, racism and other threats. “If Musk truly wants to maintain X as a free-speech platform and demonstrate he is against antisemitism, he needs to stop engaging with antisemites,” wrote Arsen Ostrovsky, CEO of the International Legal Forum. Just a few minutes of browsing X posts with the word “Jew” makes it “disheartening to witness so much antisemitic content,” wrote Sacha Roytman, CEO of Combat Antisemitism Movement. Sept. 10 “Six million Jews, as well as people of other ethnicities and religions, died horrific deaths under Hitler for no reason other than that they were Jewish,” the Old Stone House & Museum Observation Tower in Vermont stated after vandals painted swastikas and antisemitic statements on it. “We must be ever vigilant that history does not repeat itself.” In Israel, Waze fired an Israeli-Arab driver who ripped a mezuzah off a customer’s door and trashed it. North Carolina police arrested two people who dropped off antisemitic fliers in Wake Forest and Rolesville. In San Diego, several neighborhoods saw antisemitic fliers distributed. Sept. 11 The neo-Nazi Blood Tribe group claims to have started a chapter in Ohio. In Arapahoe County, Colo., residents found fliers promoting a white supremacist antisemitic “documentary.” In New Brunswick, N.J., a teenager was arrested after making antisemitic threats against a principal. In Portland, Maine, and San Diego, people distributed Goyim Defense League fliers blaming Jews for 9/11. The group also placed antisemitic materials on car windshields in Iowa outside a Minor League baseball game. Sept. 12 Masked protesters held up hateful banners, including one that stated “Jews Did 9/11,” in Novato, Calif., on Sept 10. The ADL launched an entertainment institute. Following public outcry, a Philadelphia-area cemetery will cover up a memorial to Ukrainian Nazi collaborators. Sept. 13 In Miami, the Scheck Hillel Community School evacuated following a bomb threat. Police arrested a Florida man for hanging a swastika flag over an Orlando overpass. (See Sept. 3.) Yaël Braun-Pivet, president of France’s National Assembly (part of the Parliament), filed a complaint after receiving an antisemitic letter. Some 86% of posts reported for “extreme hate speech,” including Holocaust denial and Nazi imagery, remained on X a week later, per a report. Police shut down an Argentinian bookstore selling neo-Nazi and antisemitic titles; displaying Nazi symbols is illegal in the country. Someone carved a swastika into a playground slide in Freeport, Maine; and police in Sandusky, Ohio, arrested a man in connection for distributing antisemitic fliers. In Washington, D.C., someone carved at least four swastikas on a Georgetown University police cruiser. Chassidic Jews reportedly experienced antisemitism from passengers and staff on an ITA Airways flight from Rome to New York. Sept. 14 A court awarded $430,000 to five Jewish students it found to have endured antisemitic bullying for years at a school in Australia. “Open to everyone except this murderer,” read signs that Israel’s Foreign Ministry placed on cardboard cut-outs of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, which it placed at iconic New York City sites. (The depictions of the “Butcher of Tehran” reference sanctions restricting Raisi on his expected upcoming visit to the United Nations.) A 71-year-old woman in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is pursuing other options after a district attorney opted not to pursue what she is calling an antisemitic attack. Sept. 15 Two attackers told a young Jewish man in Marseille, in the south of France: “We are going to slaughter you. Get down on your knees, you dirty Jew of a dirty race. We are going to kill you.” The director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation says a mayoral candidate associated with a far-right party in Germany who stated that Holocaust commemorations are a “guilt cult” will be barred from the memorials. “If you have a problem with me or my people, I’m very easy to find,” wrote Natan Levy, an Israeli UFC fighter who lives in the United States, in response to a Swedish fighter who called for Jews to be expelled from Israel and wrote, “Give me the strongest man from Israel, I will break him.” On this day, in 1935, Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws, stripping Jewish citizenship.

Antisemitic incident report: Sept. 9-15

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JNS publishes a weekly listing of antisemitic incidents recorded and found by Jewish, pro-Jewish and pro-Israel organizations; national and international news; and social media. By the Anti-Defamation League’s count, an average of seven instances...
Apples, honey and pomegranate, which are traditionally eaten on Rosh Hashanah. Credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90.

‘I have your back,’ Biden tells US Jews in pre-High Holidays call

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In a High Holidays call with rabbis and other clergy, U.S. President Joe Biden discussed his commitment to the security of American Jews and his relationship with Israel, as well as made the highly...