Tag: Hate Crimes
Congress initiates legislation to boost law-enforcement data on hate crimes
A bipartisan and bicameral group of lawmakers introduced legislation on Thursday to help combat the underreporting of hate crimes in the United States.
The Khalid Jabara and Heather Heyer National Opposition to Hate, Assaults and Threats...
FBI releases ads in Yiddish and Hebrew to encourage reporting of hate crimes
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released hate-crime ads in Yiddish and Hebrew to expand its outreach to Jewish communities across America, reported The Yeshiva World on Thursday.
The advertisements urge victims of hate crimes to report...
Canadian Jews remain most targeted for religious hate crimes, report finds
Jews remained by far the most targeted religious group for hate crimes in Canada, according to the Canadian government’s annual survey of police-reported hate crimes.
The report found that there were 1,946 police-reported hate crimes in Canada...
Avowed white supremacist gets 19 years in prison for synagogue bomb plot
A federal court in Denver sentenced Richard Holzer on Friday to 19-and-a-half years in prison for plotting to bomb a historic Colorado synagogue in 2019.
Holzer, 28, an avowed white supremacist, pleaded guilty last year to hate...
AJC, National Association of Attorneys General to hold training session on anti-Semitism
The American Jewish Committee and the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) will partner for a virtual training session on Wednesday about combating anti-Semitism in the United States.
The AJC-led session, titled “The People v. Hate:...
Cuomo directs hate-crimes task force to investigate graffiti at Jewish center
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered the State Police Hate Crimes Task Force to provide assistance in an investigation of anti-Semitic graffiti found outside a Jewish center in Queens, N.Y.
“I am disgusted by the swastika...
November 5, 1916: The Everett Lumber Massacre
Abraham Rabinowitz, 22, was among between seven and twelve members of the Industrial Workers of the World (the Wobblies) who were killed on a dock in Everett, Washington on this date in 1916, when...
San Diego County, nation, respond to hate incidents
Two grocery store incidents in Santee earlier this month in which a man wearing the hood of the Ku Klux Klan, and a man and woman wearing masks featuring swastikas, continue to reverberate. San...
Couple arrested in Brooklyn for accusing Chassidim of spreading coronavirus
A couple has been arrested for allegedly shouting at three Chassidic men in Brooklyn, N.Y. blaming Jews for spreading the coronavirus, all while attempting to rip off their face coverings, announced the New York...
Biden marks year after Poway shooting, releases plan to address hate crimes
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,...