In the safe confines of a gathering of Jewish fundraising and communal professionals, Sarah Hurwitz’s remarks about antisemitism and Holocaust education earned polite applause. By the time they made it to social media, they’d become kindling in a…
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Is antisemitism as American as baseball and apple pie?
In ‘Antisemitism, an American Tradition,’ historian Pamela Nadell challenges the concept of a safe haven as she traces the persistence of anti-Jewish sentiment, from colonial times to contemporary attacks
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New York congressman confronts The New School over 'Hillel funds genocide' campaign
The congressman said of the campaign that ‘this kind of antisemitism has no place in our city.’ An anonymous student letter claimed Hillel ‘is complicit in genocide’ and ‘espouses Jewish supremacist ideology’
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‘I Don’t Want to Live in a Ghetto to Feel Safe’: Young Jews in Berlin Question a Future in Germany
BERLIN – Although a formal cease-fire in Gaza has been in effect for more than six weeks, it did not stop student protesters at Berlin’s Technical University from occupying a key campus building earlier this month and presenting the…
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Jewish groups at Penn sound alarm over federal lawsuit seeking information on Jewish employees
Penn is not the first school hit by a probe for Jewish contacts. In April, professors at Barnard College received texts from the federal government asking if they were Jewish as part of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s review
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‘Certainly Not for Jews’: Why Did Israel Kill Off the Death Penalty?
In 1954, the commissioner of the Israel Prison Service, Zvi Hermon, held an unusual meeting with four Jewish inmates. At the Tel Mond prison in central Israel, he informed them of the Knesset’s decision to abolish the death penalty – a decision…
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Poland summons Israeli ambassador over Yad Vashem Holocaust post
Yad Vashem wrote that Poland was ‘the first country where Jews were forced to wear a distinctive badge to isolate them,’ sparking criticism from Poland’s foreign minister. The Auschwitz Memorial tied Yad Vashem’s tweet to its plan to open a…
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'Whiff of antisemitism': Anti-Zionist activists protest outside London synagogue hosting Aliyah event
Police said there was ‘no legal mechanism’ to stop the protest, which a Jewish communal leader described as ‘obnoxious with a strong whiff of antisemitism’. The protests were organized in part by Jewish anti-Zionist activists
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Australian judge rules synagogue arsonist motivated by mental illness, not antisemitism
The arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue in July, which occurred alongside other attacks on Jewish and Israeli establishments over the same weekend, was broadly considered antisemitic and denounced by officials in Israel and Australia
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Cabinet Approves Plan to Bring Remaining Members of ‘Lost Tribe’ From India to Israel
A special budget of 90 million shekels has been allocated to finance the flights, conversion classes, housing and other benefits for nearly 6,000 members of the Bnei Menashe community. According to the cabinet decision,…
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