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Mason Hall and the Academic Quadrangle at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Pomona College senior-class president posts anti-Semitic statements on social media

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The senior class president at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., posted anti-Semitic content on social media, comparing racism to the Holocaust and accusing Zionists of hating brown people. In an Instagram post, Malak Afaneh, a...
Santa Rosa Holocaust Memorial Fountain in California. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

California police investigate toppled fountain attached to Holocaust memorial

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A Holocaust memorial fountain in Santa Rosa, Calif., was vandalized this week. The fountain at Santa Rosa Memorial Park was “toppled onto the ground in pieces,” reported The Santa Rosa Press Democrat. The memorial was built in 2016 by...
Then-Vice President Joe Biden speaking at the 2013 AIPAC policy conference. Credit: Maxine Dovere.

Biden marks year after Poway shooting, releases plan to address hate crimes

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Former U.S. Vice President and presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden honored the one-year anniversary of the shooting at Chabad of Poway in Southern California, where a 60-year-old Lori Kaye was killed and three others injured on April 27,...
Lori Kaye at a visit to the Kotel (Western Wall) in Jerusalem. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

First yahrtzeit of Chabad of Poway shooting victim observed in solitude

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For thousands of synagogues across America, Passover marked the first time in history that their doors were closed for Yizkor. For Chabad of Poway in Southern California, it was the second time. One year ago, as...
Poway synagogue shooter John Earnest. Source: Screenshot.

Chabad of Poway gunman to face death penalty for murder of 60-year-old congregant

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The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office announced on Thursday that it will seek the death penalty against John Earnest, the 20-year-old man charged with shooting and killing congregant Lori Gilbert-Kaye, 60, and wounding three people,...
Beverly Hills Police Department officers are seen outside the Nessah Synagogue in Los Angeles on Dec. 14, 2019. Photo by Ryan Torok.

Beverly Hills Persian synagogue vandalized over Shabbat

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The Beverly Hills Police Dept. (BHPD) is “actively investigating” a series of incidents of vandalism in the city of Beverly Hills over Shabbat, according to a police statement. According to BHPD, police responded to a...
“Free Palestine” graffiti was spray-painted on a Los Angeles synagogue on Sept, 11, 2019. Source: Facebook.

LA synagogue vandalized with ‘Free Palestine’ graffiti on 9/11 anniversary

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A synagogue in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles was spray-painted with anti-Semitic graffiti on early Wednesday, which marked the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. Rabbi Yonah Bookstein of LA’s Pico Shul posted...
Front entrance to the main parking lot at Clovis Community College in Fresno, Calif., Sept. 16, 2017. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Pro-Israel and Jewish groups criticize Fresno event featuring vitriolic anti-Semitic speaker

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Jewish and pro-Israel groups have rallied against an upcoming event at Clovis Community College (CCC) in California featuring Alison Weir, an anti-Semitic and anti-Israel activist and writer that even anti-Israel groups such as Jewish Voice...
The flag of California. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

California curriculum shows the price of complacency about BDS

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While many in the Jewish world have been sounding the alarm about the threat from the BDS movement, others have said the concern about this issue has been overstated. Some have pointed out that...
A spray-painted swastika was discovered on the concrete next to a baseball field at Dos Vientos Community Park in Conejo Valley, Calif. Photo courtesy of the Anti-Defamation League Santa Barbara/Tri-Counties.

Report: California sees anti-Semitic hate crimes increase by 21 percent

The California Department of Justice (DOJ) released a report on July 2 revealing that anti-Semitic hate crimes increased by 21 percent in 2018 from the year prior. The report documented 126 instances of anti-Semitic hate crimes in 2018—an increase...