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By Matt Golden My family and I took a vacation to Maine a week or so ago, right before my children’s school year started. This is not, however, a vacation story. This is a story about a peculiar form of … Read More
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — When I asked Rabbi Diana Fersko why she decided to add to the growing list of recent books written about antisemitism, she referred to Passover. On the holiday, Jews tell and retell the familiar story … Read More
By Ron Kampeas (JTA) — The charity Kars4Kids is citing an incident outside its Jewish camp in upstate New York in pressing its case to arm staff. In the July 23 incident, a man allegedly brandished a machete when approached … Read More
By Ron Kampeas PITTSBURGH (JTA) — “If I have chance, will continue war,” appeared in a scrawl on a notepad, projected onto large TV screens in the courtroom. The image showed a note taken by a psychiatrist in early June … Read More
By Ben Sales (JTA) — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the vaccine conspiracy theorist and Democratic presidential candidate, is drawing criticism after arguing that COVID-19 had been “ethnically targeted” to have less of an effect on Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people. … Read More
By Ron Kampeas PITTSBURGH (JTA) — To try to save his client from the death penalty, a lawyer defending the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter spent hours this week pressing a prominent psychiatrist on a question that has occupied many over time: … Read More
By Ron Kampeas PITTSBURGH (JTA) — The gunman who committed the worst antisemitic attack in U.S. history is guilty of all charges he faced, according to the verdict delivered by a federal jury on Friday morning (June 16). Robert Bowers, … Read More
By Andrew Lapin June 12, 2023 (JTA) – Among the many books that conservative parents have recently asked their children’s schools to remove is a lushly illustrated version of the most famous Holocaust diary. The graphic adaptation of Anne Frank’s … Read More
By Matt Golden Director, Jewish Community Relations Council Today (May 25) the White House issued a comprehensive strategic plan to counter antisemitism in this country (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/U.S.-National-Strategy-to-Counter-Antisemitism.pdf The approach is being coordinated across a number of different actors — public, … Read More
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — More than 550 rabbis are calling for the Biden administration’s forthcoming strategy on fighting antisemitism to include a definition of anti-Jewish bigotry that has come under debate. The letter was sent as progressive groups … Read More
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