Zohran Mamdani, who will be sworn in as New York City mayor on January 1, slammed the ADL report, saying it diverts attention from actual antisemitism and that a distinction must be made between Jew hatred and criticism of the Israeli government,…
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ADL accuses Mamdani transition members of engaging in 'antisemitic, anti-Zionist' activities
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Selfies at Auschwitz: main character energy or bearing witness?
Posting a smiling selfie from a death camp is generally frowned upon. But as the survivor population shrinks, Prof. Jackie Feldman asks: Could sharing selfies be how a phone-obsessed society witnesses the Holocaust?
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Australian Jewish sports club to rename mascot in honor of 10-year-old killed in Bondi Beach massacre
Melbourne’s Maccabi FC Caulfield announced that their ‘MaccaBee’ mascot will be known as Matilda, after the parents of the youngest victim of the mass shooting urged the public to ‘remember her name’
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Bondi gunmen threw homemade bombs that failed to detonate, Australian police reveal in new findings
Police say the alleged gunmen had planned the attack for several months, training with firearms in isolated rural parts of Australia. The Sydney Morning Herald said one of the perpetrators reportedly traveled to an area in the Philippines known…
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U.K. Holocaust Charity Faces Pushback for Sacking Staffer Involved in Jewish-Arab Movement
Dozens of U.K. experts in Holocaust and Jewish studies have signed a letter urging the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, a British charity, to reconsider its decision to terminate the contract of a part-time staffer over her involvement in the…
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Jewelry of a Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor Returned to Son in Israel After 80 Years
The items, preserved because his father was arrested under a false Polish identity, were returned to the man by the head of the Archives’ department, an Israeli from the same city as the man. The return is part of the…
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Australia’s Albanese Booed at Vigil Marking One Week Since Bondi Hanukkah Massacre
‘Picked the Wrong Community to Mess With’
As many as 15,000 people attended the memorial ceremony at Bondi Beach in honor of the 15 people killed at the Chabad Hanukkah event in Sydney. The father of the youngest victim, 10-year-old Matilda, lit…
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Trump's pick for U.S. antisemitism envoy confirmed by Senate
The ambassador-level post, left vacant during a surge in antisemitic incidents, was filled despite Democratic objections. Jewish groups praised the nominee’s outreach to global envoys and coordinators, calling his appointment timely as threats to…
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Five more victims of antisemitic Bondi terror attack laid to rest as 15th victim named
Boris and Sofia Gurman, Edith Brutman, Boris Tetleroyd and Dan Elkayam were laid to rest on Friday, after the deadly shooting attack at a Hanukkah event that took the lives of 15 people. Tania Treitak was named as the fifteenth victim of the…
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Hundreds of Surfers and Swimmers Paddle Out From Bondi Beach in Tribute to Antisemitic Mass Shooting Victims
In the first full day of opening since a mass shooting driven by antisemitism killed 15 people at Australia’s famed Bondi Beach on Sunday, thousands of people returned to the waterfront Friday to commemorate the losses and try to heal through a…
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