Shortly after he aired a Super Bowl commercial for a website selling a swastika T-shirt, and two days after posting an antisemitic rant on X, the rapper Ye announced that he was quitting the platform.
One week later he was back…
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Montreal synagogue defaced with swastika on Shabbat
A Montreal synagogue was graffitied with a swastika on Shabbat, drawing condemnation from Canadian officials as well as a defiant response from the synagogue’s rabbi.
A congregant at Temple Emanu-El Beth Sholom, a Reform…
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Muslim Harvard lecturer resigns citing ‘anti-Muslim bias’
Prof. Hussein Rashid, associate dean of the “Religion in Public Life” program at Harvard Divinity School recently resigned citing anti-Muslim bias and the university’s failure to condemn racist remarks. He was the second Muslim member of faculty…Continue Reading
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OPINION: The pernicious effects of ambient antisemitism
It was just one example of a hostage poster among many: this one of Tomer Ahimas, an Israeli soldier killed on October 7 whose body was held in Gaza until the IDF recovered it in July 2024. The poster had been so defaced I could barely make…
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Cut ties with Zionist institutions, Haredi rabbi tells flockl
Rabbi Dov Landau, leader of the Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox faction, instructed representatives of the sector to withdraw from “Zionist organizations” in a sharply worded letter set to be published Tuesday in the ultra-Orthodox newspaper Yated…Continue Reading
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‘How do you expect the world to understand if Israel is not going to show the other s
Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce founder Duvi Honig has been a key figure in US-Israel relations, economic diplomacy and Jewish advocacy, working closely with Trump officials, including incoming US Ambassador Mike Huckabee and Defense…
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Holocaust survivor who designed costumes for Liz Minelli has posthumous art show in Mayfair
The paintings and sculptures of Lilly Fenichel have long been celebrated in America, but the artist beloved by the Beat Generation had to wait until now to get her first solo show in the UK. Only what she would have expected – despite…
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Singing for joy: Jewish Care’s first choir competition for people living with dementia
Jewish Care’s music and singing groups, for people living with dementia in the community, came together for the charity’s first Singing for Joy competition at The Betty and Asher Loftus Centre campus in north London.
Members of the Sam…
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Florida man arrested after shooting 2 Israelis he thought were Palestinians
Police in Miami Beach have arrested a Jewish man who shot at two people in a car, thinking they were Palestinian.
They were actually Israeli tourists.
The man, Mordechai Brafman, 27, opened fire on the two men Saturday night,…
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Dream becomes Israel’s first cyber unicorn of 2025
Israeli cyber security firm Dream Security has become Israel’s first cyber unicorn for 2025.
Founded in 2023, by former NSO founder Shalev Hulio, former Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz and former Prime Minister’s Office staffer Gil…
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