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Participants at the “No Hate. No Fear.” rally in New York City on Jan. 5, 2020. Photo by Rivka Segal.

Major anti-Semitic incidents rise some 18 percent in 2019, according to new report

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The number of major anti-Semitic incidents worldwide rose by 18 percent in 2019 over the previous year, according to a newly released report from Tel Aviv University, the Kantor Center for the Study of...
Grafton Thomas has been charged with stabbing five people at a home and prayer hall known as Rabbi Rottenberg’s Shul in Monsey, N.Y., on the seventh night of Hanukkah on Dec. 28, 2019. Source: Screenshot.

Judge rules Monsey machete-attack suspect deemed unfit for federal trial

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The suspect accused of the Dec. 28 machete attack at a home and prayer hall known as Rabbi Rottenberg’s Shul in Monsey, N.Y., injuring five of the 100 or so celebrants at a Hanukkah candle-lighting party...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo meets with of Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg in Monsey, N.Y., after a stabbing attack at his home and shul on Dec. 28, 2019, the seventh night of Hanukkah. Source: Andrew Cuomo via Twitter.

Gov. Cuomo renames state hate-crime bill after late victim of Hanukkah stabbing

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Monday that he will rename the state’s Domestic Terrorism Act after Yosef Neumann, who died on March 29 of the injuries he suffered three months earlier during a stabbing attack on...
Yosef Neumann. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

One of five people injured in Monsey Hanukkah stabbing dies of wounds

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A victim of the Dec. 28 machete attack at Hanukkah party at a home and prayer hall known as Rabbi Rottenberg’s Shul in Monsey, N.Y., has succumbed to his wounds. “We are sad to inform...
A New York City subway train. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Woman indicted with hate crime for anti-Semitic attack on New York City subway

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A woman who went on an anti-Semitic tirade against two Jewish people on a New York City subway in December was indicted with a hate crime by a Manhattan grand jury, attorneys of one...
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,...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (right) launches the “No Hate in Our State” campaign to combat crimes, divisiveness and anti-Semitism in New York State. Seated to his left is ADL CEO and national director Jonathan Greenblatt, Malcolm Hoenlein executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and Cheryl Fishbein, president of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York. Credit: New York Governor's Office via Flickr.

Cuomo proposes labeling hate crimes as domestic terrorism, increasing security funding

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced several steps on Thursday aimed at providing safety, security and peace of mind to Jews and other minorities in the state as the number of hate crimes continue...
Los Angeles skyline. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Anti-Semitic hate crimes in LA increased by 60 percent

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Reported anti-Semitic hate crimes in Los Angeles increased by a little more than 60 percent between 2018 and 2019—the highest total for hate crimes on the basis of religion, according to data released on Wednesday by...
Police are searching for a suspect who vandalized the South Street Temple in Lincoln, Neb., with a racial slur and swastika. Source: Screenshot.

Police look for vandal of Nebraska synagogue who photographed his own grafitti

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Police are searching for a man for who spray-painted a swastika and racial slur on a synagogue in Lincoln, Neb., and then took a picture of his “work.” According to surveillance video footage, the vandalism at...
A group from Cleveland walks across the Brooklyn Bridge at the “No Hate. No Fear.” rally in New York City that drew 25,000 people, Jan. 5, 2020. Credit: Jewish Federation of Cleveland.

Jews needed to show pride by marching. Now can they show smarts?

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After a year in which there was a surge of violent anti-Semitic attacks on ultra-Orthodox Jews in the greater New York area, the rest of the Jewish community, which had often ignored assaults on...