Tag: Maryland
Maryland police taking ‘every investigative step’ after antisemitic school vandalism
Four public schools in Montgomery County, Md., were vandalized with antisemitic graffiti on Aug. 19, WJLA-TV reported.
Marc Yamada, chief of the Montgomery County Police Department, stated on Wednesday that “the recent acts of antisemitic and anti-Israel...
Suspect arrested in alleged arson hate crime at Jewish Museum of Maryland
Baltimore Police officers arrested Assadollah Hashemi on Saturday, accusing the 66-year-old of an Aug. 4 arson attack outside the Jewish Museum of Maryland, according to a statement that the Baltimore Police Department provided to...
New York and Maryland school districts face Title VI federal investigations
The U.S. Department of Education announced investigations into reports of alleged bigotry in violation of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act at the Commack School District in Commack, N.Y., and Dorchester County Public Schools...
Maryland middle-schoolers charged with hate crimes for swastikas, Nazi salutes
The Calvert County State’s Attorney’s Office in Maryland has filed hate-crime charges against three 13-year-olds and referred the case to the state’s juvenile services department.
The students attend Plum Point Middle School in Huntingtown in Calvert County,...
Jewish students at the University of Maryland ‘watching our backs a lot’
National discussions about campus antisemitism since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas in Israel have largely overlooked one of the nation’s largest Jewish student populations: the University of Maryland, College Park.
The 1,340-acre campus,...
Swastika flier found at bus stop across from Maryland synagogue
A flier with a swastika on it was found plastered on a bus-stop shelter in a heavily Orthodox neighborhood of Silver Spring, Md., just outside of Washington, D.C., on Thursday.
It included a white supremacist...
Baltimore-area JCC receives bomb threat, second in two weeks
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore received an anti-Semitic bomb threat on Tuesday, its second in less than two weeks.
The first one, sent on May 15, led to the evacuation of JCC’s Rosenblum Owings...
Maryland joins list of states reviewing contracts with Ben & Jerry’s, Unilever
Maryland is joining a list of states examining its relationship with the ice-cream maker Ben & Jerry’s, as well as its parent company, Unilever, after the company announced last month that it will no longer sell...
Sign supporting Israel outside Maryland synagogue gets cut down, then stolen
A banner outside a synagogue in Potomac, Md., that expressed support for the State of Israel was torn down and taken over Memorial Day weekend.
Montgomery County police are investigating the vandalism outside Congregation Har...
DC suburb reschedules showing of anti-Israel film narrated by Roger Waters
After postponing a screening of an anti-Israel documentary narrated by pro-BDS activist and former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters, the Maryland municipality of Takoma Park, a suburb of Washington, D.C., has rescheduled the showing for next...