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Brian (left) and Benjamin Barth in Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City. Photo by Michael Jurick.

The only answer to hatred of Jews is Jewish pride

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This week on Twitter, a Jewish writer in Los Angeles decided to dispense some advice to her followers. Ariel Sobel had become aware that a small group of white supremacists was compiling a list...
IfNotNow supporters at a rally in New York City. Credit: IfNotNow via Facebook.

New report highlights ties between IfNotNow and anti-Semitic pro-Palestinian group

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The progressive Jewish activist group IfNotNow has generated several headlines in the past year by challenging mainstream American Jewish organizations on its support for Israel, and more recently, for its campaign to bait 2020 Democratic presidential...
Young Israel of Bal Harbour, Fla.

Florida synagogue receives package with anti-Semitic and threatening content

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A package containing anti-Semitic and threatening content was received at the Young Israel of Bal Harbour in Southeast Florida on Monday. Inside the package was a DVD, a photo of someone pointing a gun and anti-Semitic writing,...
Illustrative picture of a man wearing a kipah. Credit: Courtesy.

Jewish man donning ‘kipah’ insulted, spat on in Germany

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A 25-year-old Jewish man was insulted and spat on in front the Potsdam Central Station by two Syrian nationals, reported German daily Berliner Zeitung on Tuesday. The student, who told German press agency DPA that he wears...
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CNN photo editor resigns after anti-Semitic tweets come to light

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A CNN photo editor resigned on Thursday evening after anti-Semitic tweets of his resurfaced, with one calling Jews “pigs” in the aftermath of a 2011 Palestinian bombing at a crowded Jerusalem bus station (two, not four,...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Credit: Flickr.

Boris Johnson: Will He Be Good for the Jews?

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Britain now has its first celebrity prime minister. On Tuesday, Boris Johnson was elected leader of the Tory Party following Theresa May’s resignation over her failure to deliver Brexit. On Wednesday, Johnson “kissed hands” with...
A view of the graffiti covered up on the Kotel HaKatan, July 2019. Credit: Jerusalem Police.

What to do after ‘slaughter the Jews’ is spray-painted in Arabic on part of...

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A young Arab girl and her older teenage sister spray-painted the words “slaughter the Jews” in Arabic on Friday on the Kotel HaKatan (“little wall” in Hebrew), a portion of the Western Wall on...
The Londonskaya Hotel on Odessa's Primorsky Bulvar is one of the city's landmark buildings. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Study: Across former Soviet Union, Jews in towns suffer more than city residents

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Russian and Ukrainian Jews feel much safer in big cities, a new large poll finds. First results of the extended study “Jews of the Post-Soviet Space” were presented yesterday at the ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute 2019 for...
Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog speaks during the Public Forum Conference on Nov. 15, 2018. Credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Jewish Agency calls for investigation into UK Labour Party over anti-Semitism row

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The Jewish Agency for Israel is calling on an investigation into the United Kingdom’s Labour Party following a recent BBC investigation that exposed the depth of anti-Semitism within its ranks. Isaac Herzog, chairman of the...
Elan Carr, U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, at the U.S. Department of Justice Summit on Combating Anti-Semitism in Washington, D.C., July 15, 2019. Credit: DOJ.

US Justice Department Summit seeks response to ‘cancer’ of Jew-hatred, anti-Semitism

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The U.S. Department of Justice hosted its first “Summit on Combating Anti-Semitism” on Monday, where U.S. Attorney General William Barr opened the proceedings by calling Jew-hatred a “cancer.” An invocation by Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik preceded...