Tag: anti-Semitism
Communal leaders request Israel to commemorate global Jewish terror victims
Heads of major Jewish organizations, led by the Jewish Agency for Israel, delivered a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett calling on the Israeli government to designate those killed in anti-Semitic incidents outside...
New York Police Department offers reward in hate incident
The New York City Police Department has released video footage of a suspect they are hoping to identify for drawing a swastika in front of a Jewish high school in the Flatbush section of...
Begin Center panel on anti-Semitism delivers central message: Speak up, fight back
The main message that emerged from a panel on anti-Semitism on Monday evening is that Jews everywhere can make a difference, and all people—Jews and non-Jews—can and must fight back against the resurgent scourge...
Swastika flier found at bus stop across from Maryland synagogue
A flier with a swastika on it was found plastered on a bus-stop shelter in a heavily Orthodox neighborhood of Silver Spring, Md., just outside of Washington, D.C., on Thursday.
It included a white supremacist...
Elan Carr: Jewish American Heritage Month passes without enough fanfare
May is over. Did you know it was Jewish American Heritage Month?
If your answer is “no,” you’re far from alone. It was easy to miss. However, the State Department’s former anti-Semitism envoy is on...
Guests at New York mayor’s mansion for Jewish Heritage Month note rise in anti-Semitism
“I was ready for just about anything when I came to an Eric Adams party, but a Chassidic guy singing Billy Joel was not one of them.”
So quipped New York City Council Member Lincoln...
Conspiracy theories muddy the waters on needed WHO reform
Conspiracy theories cast a shadow over the 75th World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO), as hundreds of health officials and diplomats converged on Geneva last week. One of...
Austria records nearly 1,000 anti-Semitic incidents in 2021
The Jewish community of Vienna documented a record 965 anti-Semitic incidents in Austria in 2021, according to a new report.
The statistic represents the highest number of incidents since the local community began compiling such data...
‘Say yes to the world’ but no to the Jews: Lufthansa’s anti-Semitic scandal
It took several days, but eventually, the world’s media grasped why the scandal at Frankfurt Airport last week, when more than 100 Orthodox Jews were prevented by the German airline Lufthansa from boarding a...
Jewish teen in Brooklyn punched for refusing to say ‘Free Palestine’
A Jewish teen walking in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Midwood in Brooklyn, N.Y., was hit in the face by an attacker because he wouldn’t say “Free Palestine.”
The victim and his friend, both 18-year-old yeshivah students, were...