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The National Menorah lighting in Washington, D.C. in 2017. Source: Screenshot.

In wake of anti-Semitic incidents, Hanukkah menorah-lightings evoke Jewish pride

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The North MoPac Expressway runs up Austin’s west side, a busy, eight-lane artery that speaks to the city’s expanding suburbs and the extravagant consumption of space that is uniquely Texan. It’s not a place...
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Kyle Rittenhouse and the ticking racial clock

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Tick Tock. Tick Tock. Not that Tik Tok! Do I look like I lip-sync and choreograph dance moves? I mean the ticking clock—the racial time bomb we live with each day. Many anticipated an explosion following...

Up for auction: Letter by Einstein about brewing ‘anti-Semitism’ in US academia

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The Kedem Auction House in Israel will begin auctioning a handwritten letter by world-renowned physicist and mathematician Albert Einstein this week in which he warns his friend about anti-Semitism in American academia prior to World War...
Polish President Andrzej Duda. Credit: Grabowski Foto/Shutterstock.

Heard again: Cries of ‘Death to the Jews!’ in a Polish city

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In her recent co-authored book Philo-Semitic Violence: Poland’s Jewish Past in New Polish Narratives, the Warsaw-based literary scholar Elzbieta Janicka recounts an episode from Poland’s past that sheds a great deal of light on Poland’s...
Yahya Sinwar, leader of the Palestinian Hamas movement, gestures during a rally in Beit Lahiya on May 30, 2021. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90.

United Kingdom declares entire Hamas organization as terror group

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United Kingdom’s Home Secretary Priti Patel announced that she is seeking to declare the entire Hamas organization as a terrorist group. While the military wing of Hamas, known as the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, is...
A concert at Judafest in Europe. Credit: Judafest/JDC.

JDC European leaders survey: Anti-Semitism, communal sustainability top concerns

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Key findings of a new survey were released on Thursday by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s International Center for Community Development (JDC-ICCD). The Fifth Survey of European Jewish Community Leaders and Professionals was conducted between April and...
New York state resident Nick Colella spoke at a town council meeting in Haverstraw, N.Y., where he threatened to run over Jews, Nov. 10, 2021. Source: Screenshot.

New York man threatens to run over Jews, local district attorney considers criminal charges

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A resident of Rockland County, N.Y., may face criminal charges after making anti-Semitic remarks and appearing to threaten Jewish residents last week during a village board meeting. During the Nov. 10 meeting of the Town...
Journal entry found in the car of Franklin Barrett Sechriest, 18, who is facing federal charges for setting a fire outside a synagogue in Austin, Texas. Source: Screenshot.

Teen accused of setting fire outside Austin synagogue faces federal arson charges

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The 18-year-old accused of setting the exterior of a synagogue on fire in Austin, Texas, last month is now facing federal arson charges. In an affidavit, FBI Special Agent Thomas P. Joy laid out the case against Franklin...
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid addresses a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset, on Nov. 8, 2021. Photo by Oliiver Fitoussi/Flash90.

Lapid condemns ‘horrifying anti-Semitic incident’ in Poland

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Nationalist protesters called for Jews to be killed or expelled from Poland at a rally in the central Polish city of Kalisz on Thursday. Protesters at the rally, held to mark Poland’s Independence Day, blasted...
Exterior of the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue building in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pa. Credit: Courtesy of “A Tree of Life” documentary.

Documentary on worst anti-Semitic attack in America shows courage under fire

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SWAT teams rushing to a synagogue to save people from a shooting? That was something most people thought they’d never see. But that’s what happened at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue when Gregory Bowers opened...