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Honoring Menachem Begin and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Thirty years ago, we—a Jewish Democratic alderman and a Baptist pastor in New Haven, Connecticut—became friends. What brought us together? First, we recognized that we shared common beliefs and values. Second, we both felt that in...
European Union flags in front of the European Commission building in Brussels. Credit: Amio Cajander via Wikimedia Commons.

European Union makes move to combat anti-Semitism

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A key body of the European Union adopted a declaration on Wednesday to combat anti-Semitism. The Council of the European Union is comprised of government ministers from the 27 E.U. member-states, who meet to make...
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Wiesenthal Center warns about Parler opening ‘the door wide’ to anti-Semitism

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Parler, a social-media website founded in 2018 that prides itself on allowing virtually unfiltered viewpoint, has allowed anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry to flourish on its site, according to a report released on Thursday by...
An event at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, hosted by Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin, marked 82 years since the Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany, Nov. 9, 2020. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Rivlin hosts event marking Kristallnacht with presidents of Austria and Germany

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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said on Monday that while anti-Semitism was a more difficult virus to deal with than COVID-19, a vaccine must be found for it. Speaking at an event at the President’s Residence...

November 5, 1916: The Everett Lumber Massacre

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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...
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Life, liberty and the pursuit of victimhood

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With so many crises and news events swirling around us, it’s not easy to notice an underlying cultural shift that may threaten the very essence of America. The COVID-19 pandemic, tribal political warfare, racial unrest...
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When being Jewish isn’t interesting or exotic enough

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Great imposters are the lifeblood of “stranger than fiction” stories that are hard to resist. Tales of troubled people who find it difficult to live life in their own skin and con their way...
A Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis. Photo: Andy Witchger via Wikimedia Commons.

Support for Black Lives Matter repeats a lethal error of history

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Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of history, it is said, are doomed to repeat them. In the 20th century, thousands of progressively minded people supported Soviet communism. Believing this ideology was the...
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GOP candidate in Georgia noted for anti-Semitic, racist remarks wins primary

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Jewish and pro-Israel groups slammed the Tuesday victory of Marjorie Taylor Greene, a businesswoman who has made anti-Semitic and other racist remarks, in the Republican run-off in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. Greene defeated neurosurgeon John Cowan...
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UK academic is fired, in part for saying Jews are ‘cleverest people in world’

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An engineering lecturer in the United Kingdom has been fired for making racial remarks, including saying Jews “are the cleverest people in the world” and had “a particular gift” for physics. An employment tribunal this...