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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...
Participants at a Jerusalem rally in solidarity with the “No Hate. No Fear” march in New York City, Jan. 5, 2020. Credit: Jewish Agency for Israel. Credit: Jewish Agency for Israel.

Hundreds attend Jerusalem rally in solidarity with New York City ‘No Hate’ march

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Hundreds of people came together in Jerusalem on Jan. 5 to participate in a rally of solidarity with the “No Hate. No Fear” march in New York. Taking place in the Jewish Agency’s courtyard, the event was...
An estimated 25,000 people converged on Manhattan’s Foley Square, crossed the Brooklyn Bridge and and made their way to Cadman Plaza as part of a “No Hate. No Fear.” rally on Jan. 5, 2020. Photo by Rivka Segal.

25,000 people march against hate and fear in New York, saying ‘you’ve got to...

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Thousands of marchers assembled in Manhattan Sunday morning, taking to the streets and flooding the Brooklyn Bridge for hours as they crossed into the borough of Brooklyn amid chants of “No Hate. No Fear.”...
American flag flying at half-mast. Credit: Pixabay.

Flags to fly half-mast for week in Jersey City for victims

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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy ordered flags across the state to be flown at half-mast for a full week beginning on Friday, Dec. 13, in “recognition and mourning of the passing of the victims...
Anti-Defamation League'a New York/New Jersey director Evan Bernstein speaks along with law-enforcement regarding the stabbing of an Orthodox Jewish man in Monsey, N.Y. Source: ADL via Twitter.

Reward offered for leads in stabbing of Jewish man near synagogue in Monsey, N.Y.

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Security was increased on Thursday in the New York hamlet of Monsey, about 30 miles north of New York City, where an Orthodox Jewish man was stabbed multiple times a day earlier while on his way...
A New York City subway train. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Anti-Semitic hate crimes on New York City subways on the rise, NYPD reveals

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New police statistics show an increase in anti-Semitic hate crimes targeting Jewish riders on New York City subways, The City reported on Wednesday. Since Oct. 20, the New York Police Department has logged 42 hate-crime complaints involving anti-Semitic...
Street view of the mainly ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Borough Park in the southwestern borough of Brooklyn, N.Y., on Jan. 1, 2014. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash 90.

Jewish residents in Brooklyn’s Borough Park assaulted in separate incidents

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A number of Jews in Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Borough Park were attacked over the weekend. One incident occurred around midnight on New Utrecht Avenue and 53rd Street when a group of men exited their...
Stortorget in Malmö, Sweden. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Anti-Semitic hate crimes in Sweden increase by record-high 53 percent

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Anti-Semitic hate crimes in Sweden increased by 53 percent last year compared to 2016, according to its government in a report released last week that showed a 69 percent increase in racist or xenophobic...