Concert visuals at the band’s London show included animations combining the Nazi symbol and a Star of David, along with images of destruction in Gaza and the caption, ‘Our government is complicit in genocide.’ A Jewish group filed a complaint…
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Scottish rock band Primal Scream denies accusations of antisemitism over concert visuals featuring a swastika and Star of David
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U.S. Jews and Israel ‘Are No Longer Exceptional’: Dahlia Lithwick and Joshua Leifer on Being ‘Trump’s Chess Pieces’ – Podcasts
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Amid Tensions, Oscar-nominated Israeli Animation Sparks Dialogue Between Jews and Muslims in Sweden
Israeli filmmaker Tal Kantor’s animated short film ‘Letter to a Pig,’ exploring intergenerational trauma and its potential to lead to empathy, has received numerous accolades. Now, a rabbi in Sweden has shown the film to Jewish-Muslim audiences…
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Hanukkah Recipes | When Churro Meets Sufganiya: A Spicy Holiday Twist on Two Classics
Every year with the arrival of Hanukkah and its array of fried foods, I find myself facing a dilemma: whether to once again come out of my pastry-chef closet and admit that I’m not particularly attached to the traditional doughnut – a holiday…
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Why This Historian Thinks How We Define Antisemitism Right Now Is Destructive
NEW YORK – When historian Mark Mazower was a child growing up in northern London in the heavily Jewish neighborhood Golders Green, decades after the infamous Cable Street riots, he thought of antisemitism in pretty clear terms. For him, it was…
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Jennie Grossinger Created a Borscht Belt Haven for Jews. Does America Need More Like Them?
NEW YORK – From Woody Allen to Jerry Seinfeld, from Joan Rivers to Jackie Mason, every successful Jewish comedian lined up to perform at her hotel. Jennie Grossinger, who had a rare business savvy despite her meager six years of schooling,…
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When Young Holocaust Survivors Mulled Having Sex With Germans: The Buchenwald Kibbutz Journal, Revealed
“The question of sex is a very painful one for us,” 21-year-old Meir Skorczky wrote in June 1945. Two months after being liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp, in Germany, he was now a member of the founding group of “Kibbutz…
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‘If Believers Cannot Do This, Who Can?’: The Rabbi, Pastor and Imam Building a Berlin House of Prayer
Imam Kadir Sanci, left, and Rabbi Andreas Nachama, two of the founders of House of One. Credit: House of One / René Arnold
Construction of the House of One – an ambitious interfaith project in the heart of Berlin – has been painfully slow….
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Shady watchdog launches 'Antisemite of the Year' award, flaring fierce backlash
StopAntisemitism has faced criticism for targeting Muslim figures in its ‘Antisemite of the Year’ campaign, which has always named a person of color. Nick Fuentes, a 27-year-old Neo-Nazi influencer, was nominated in past years but not this year,…
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Novelists in Arab Countries Recall Jews Who Were Once There, and Then Disappeared
Beirut, summer of 1954. The streets were filled with demonstrations against the Baghdad Pact, a military alliance between Great Britain, Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan and Iran to counter Soviet expansion in the Middle East. While security forces mingled…
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