Ben Sales
By Ben Sales
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Fast Forward Dead pig found outside rabbi’s door in heavily Orthodox New Jersey township
A dead pig’s body was found outside the door of a rabbi in the heavily Orthodox township of Lakewood, New Jersey. The body was found on Shabbat, according to The Lakewood Scoop, and the local police department is treating the incident as a bias crime. Pigs are seen as the quintessentially unkosher animal and have…
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Fast Forward San Francisco-area Jewish students face anti-Semitic harassment online for 2nd time since September
(JTA) — A San Francisco-area school district is taking action after Jewish students faced anti-Semitic harassment on social media for the second time this term. Jewish students in the Tamalpais Union High School District said accounts on Instagram and TikTok followed them and posted offensive messages, including posts that denied the Holocaust, discussed rape and…
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Fast Forward 750 Jewish and Holocaust scholars sign petition protesting far-right politician tapped to lead Yad Vashem
(JTA) — A broad coalition of Jewish studies scholars and directors of Jewish and Holocaust museums has signed a petition opposing the proposed appointment of Effi Eitam, a far-right Israeli politician, to chair Israel’s Holocaust museum. The petition, which has 750 signers, is the latest protest against Eitam. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies…
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News 2 years after synagogue shooting, Pittsburgh has become a hub for white supremacists
In the days after the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history, Pittsburgh became a symbol of the enduring dangers of hatred, as well as the Jewish communal solidarity that followed the synagogue shooting. Two years later, the city has become a symbol and pilgrimage site of a far more insidious sort: for white supremacists who…
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Fast Forward Trump taps former speechwriter who attended white supremacist conference to panel monitoring Holocaust sites
(JTA) — President Donald Trump has nominated Darren Beattie, a former White House speechwriter who attended a white supremacist conference, to a government commission that monitors Holocaust sites. Beattie, who identifies on Twitter as a “proud Jew,” attended a conference of the H.L. Mencken Club in 2016. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the…
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News Facing a federal complaint, the University of Illinois pledges to protect Jewish and pro-Israel students
(JTA)— Weeks after a federal complaint alleged an anti-Semitic climate at the University of Illinois, the university announced it would work with Jewish groups to improve conditions for Jews and pro-Israel students on campus. The campus in Champaign-Urbana, home to 34,000 undergraduates and some 3,000 Jewish undergraduate students, was recently the subject of a legal…
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Fast Forward In a first for a secretary of state, Mike Pompeo will visit an Israeli settlement in the West Bank
(JTA) — Mike Pompeo is planning to visit an Israeli West Bank settlement, the first time a secretary of state will have made such a visit. For the visit during the Trump administration’s lame-duck period, he has chosen a settlement that is home to a winery that created a special label in his honor. The…
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Fast Forward A Proud Boys leader is trying to rebrand the group as explicitly white supremacist and anti-Semitic
(JTA) — One of the leaders of the Proud Boys, the far-right group that President Donald Trump told to “stand back and stand by” during a presidential debate, is trying to rebrand the organization as explicitly white supremacist and anti-Semitic. Kyle Chapman, the founder of a “tactical defense arm” of the Proud Boys known for…
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