After scandal, can the Philadelphia Federation’s new CEO turn it around?
Michael Balaban has his work cut out for him.
Take me out to the minyan: Inside Team Israel’s first pre-Olympic exhibition game
The most popular man in Brooklyn on Sunday night was Shlomo Lipman, a pitcher for Israel’s national baseball team, which had schlepped to Coney Island for the first of a series of nine exhibition games ahead of The Big Schlep to the Olympics in Tokyo in less than two weeks.
A 139 percent uptick in hate crimes in NYC? Well, sort of.
A New York Post article published on July 3 that described a 139% increase in hate crimes since the same period last year generated a firestorm on social media this week.
Extremist groups are abusing tax-exempt status, says ADL in new report
Antisemitic, white nationalist and insurrectionist organizations are lining their pockets with unpaid taxes, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League released Monday.
Pittsburgh congregation asks DOJ to reverse course on death penalty for shooter
A Reconstructionist congregation that was housed in the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha building in Pittsburgh targeted in a deadly shooting in 2018 is asking Attorney General Merrick Garland to “abandon its quest for the death penalty” in the case against the accused shooter.
Arizona state senator touts appearance on network that warned against ‘Jewish tyrants’
Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers, a Republican, appeared on an antisemitic online TV network last week to promote the state’s baseless 2020 election audit.
Antisemitism: How to respond if you’re the victim or a witness
While a tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Gaza seems to be holding despite tit-for-tat violence last Wednesday, American Jews are still reeling from a reported surge in antisemitism following the conflict in the Middle East. Incidents include a window at a kosher pizzeria in Manhattan shattered with a brick, a synagogue door in Utah vandalized with a swastika and bottles thrown at Jewish diners in Los Angeles.
Poll: Democrats support secular education requirements at yeshivas
The vast majority of registered Democrats support requirements for secular education at religious yeshivas, according to a new poll commissioned by the advocacy group YAFFED that was released Wednesday.
Survey: More than half of American Jews encountered antisemitism after Middle East violence
A new ADL’s report found that 60% of Jews have witnessed behavior — or heard or read comments — they thought were antisemitic.
ADL slams Facebook’s handling of antisemitism in letter to oversight board
The Anti-Defamation League sent a letter Wednesday calling out Facebook for failing to remove blatant antisemitism from the platform.