admin | December 13, 2019
Touro Synagogue will be decorated for the holidays and docents will educate visitors on the evolution of Chanukah during the open house tour. (Photo by Michael Melford) The Historic Houses of Worship Holiday Traditions tour will take place on Dec. 23 from noon to 3 p.m.
admin | December 13, 2019
5 Non-Drinking Things to do This Weekend in Detroit is a roundup of our favorite ways to indulge and adventure without drinking.
admin | December 13, 2019
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) Fears that a deadly shooting at a Jewish market in Jersey City was an anti-Semitic attack mounted on Wednesday as authorities recounted how a man and a woman deliberately pulled up to the place in a rental van with at least one rifle and got out firing. A day after the gunbattle and standoff that left six people dead the two killers, a police officer and three people who had been inside the store state and federal law enforcement officials warned they have not established the motive for the attack.
admin | December 13, 2019
What to Know The deadly shooting rampage at a New Jersey kosher markethas cast a spotlight on a fringe movement known for its anti-Semitic strain ofstreet preaching and its role in a viral-video confrontation at the LincolnMemorial this year. Investigators believe that the man and woman who killedthree people at the Jersey City grocery Tuesday in addition to gunning down apolice officer at a cemetery hated Jews and law enforcement and had expressedinterest in the Black Hebrew Israelites movement, New Jersey Attorney GeneralGurbir Grewal said Thursday. But we have not definitively established any formal links to that organization or to any other group, he said.
admin | December 13, 2019
Featured photo courtesy of Mike Smith Abe Foxman, former national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), drew a large audience Nov. 20 to the Berman Theater to hear his talk on a timely topic: How to Deal with Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century
admin | December 12, 2019
The news about one of the suspects in the Jersey City shooting at a kosher supermarket apparently having been a "Black Hebrew Israelite" who apparently"wrote anti-Semitic and anti-police posts," might surprise some who associate anti-Semitism with white nationalists and with extremist Islam or certain forms of Arab nationalism.
admin | December 12, 2019
A New Jersey employee for a federal contractor pleaded guilty after purposefully omitting his ties to a white supremacist organization on applications for security clearance and then lying to the FBI. Fred Arena, 41, pleaded guilty to charges of making false statements to government agents, U.S
admin | December 12, 2019
Rep. Eric Swalwell, who represents Pleasanton in the East Bays Alameda County, wrote an op-ed in the Forward this week highlighting Californias recent rise in anti-Semitic incidents and condemning President Trump and some of his associates who he believes have tacitly or explicitly empowered extremism in ways not seen in generations. Hate is on the rise in America, oozing like poison into our national business and even into our governments official business, wrote the 39-year-old member of Congress, who vaulted onto the national political stage recently with a spirited presidential bid that ended in July, and who began his political career nine years ago with a seat on the Dublin City Council.
admin | December 12, 2019
In a passionate plea to his Republican colleagues, Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) implored them to "wake up" and remember that they "didn't swear an oath to Donald Trump. You swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Cicilline made his remarks on Wednesday night as the House Judiciary Committee debated the articles of impeachment against President Trump
admin | December 12, 2019
(12/13-12/15) Looking for what to do in New York? We've got the latest on all the goings-on in NYC, from concerts to museum exhibitions to comedy to the best in city sightseeing
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