admin | June 15, 2024
(June 13, 2024 / JNS) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said on Monday that antisemitism was antithetical to American and progressive values, and that bad faith actors falsely accuse black women in particular of being antisemitic. Antisemitism is an assault on our values as Americans and especially as progressives, she said during an online webinar
admin | June 15, 2024
(June 11, 2024 / JNS) This is a perilous time to be a Jew. The world responded to the greatest mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust with a surge of antisemitism and sympathy for those who committed the atrocities of Oct
admin | June 15, 2024
(June 14, 2024 / JNS) U.S. President Joe Biden is drawing praise from American Jewish groups and criticism from the pro-Israel community after he commented on social media about abhorrent and horrific acts of antisemitism this week, including a demonstration celebrating the Oct.
admin | June 15, 2024
ORLANDO When Elias Joaquin Burgos arrived in Orlando for a Jewish youth group event in February, he found himself surrounded by 3,700 other Jewish teenagers roughly 15 times the number of Jews who live in the entirety of his home country of Iceland. Burgos was attending the annual international convention for BBYO, the pluralistic Jewish youth movement, which featured teens from 42 countries. The United States had the largest delegation, with more than 3,000 teens, while sizable groups came from Canada, Argentina, Spain and Germany, plus smaller cohorts from Israel and Ukraine as well
admin | June 15, 2024
How much more are Jews in New York City expected to take? Earlier this week, a protest in front of the Nova Music Festival Exhibition on Wall Street, which commemorates those slaughtered at a music festival in Israel during the October 7 attacks, waved Hezbollah and Hamas flags and a Long live October 7th banner, lit flares and chanted long live the intifada. On Tuesday, a mob took over a New York City subway car and chanted, in a call and repeat fashion, Raise your hands if youre a Zionist
admin | June 15, 2024
The Anti-Defamation League reports that more than half of Americans experience online hate and harassment in their lifetimes and numbers are rising. The ADL says its sixth annual survey on the issue says that among adults the groups most affected by the issue were transgender (63 %), LGBTQ+ (49 %) Muslim (47 %) and Jews (34%) Harassment of teens ages 13-17 remained steady at 50 percent this past year, the ADL says. The hate were seeing online, doesnt stay online it causes real harm and violence in peoples lives.
admin | June 15, 2024
Re ACLU lawyer who defended Nazis sees free speech retreat in America by Joan Vennochi (Opinion, June 11): Antisemitism on campus is not a phantom claim intended to shut down debate.
admin | June 15, 2024
ATTLEBORO A change of plea hearing for a Millis man arrested in January for allegedly leaving a hate-filled, threatening message on voicemail at the Agudas Achim synagogue has been postponed to Aug. 13. John Reardon, 59, was scheduled to appear Wednesday for the hearing in U.S
admin | June 15, 2024
A Canadian man suspected of throwing a rock through a synagogue window was arrested, the Toronto Police Service announced on Saturday, as the city and country at large continued to see a spate of vandal attacks against Jewish houses of worship and schools. Jonathan Szeftel, 33, is alleged to have approached a synagogue last Saturday before dawn and broke the front window with a rock
admin | June 15, 2024
DETROIT (WXYZ) Jury selection began today in the murder for downtown Detroit synagogue leader Samantha Woll. Woll was found stabbed to death outside her Lafayette Park home in October. In December, Detroit Police arrested Michael Bolanos Jackson, accusing the 28-year-old of stabbing Woll to death in a random home invasion
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