Two Jewish schools in South Florida were placed on lockdown temporarily after ammunition was discovered adjacent to the campus they share with the local Jewish federation. According to Local10.com, the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County released a statement Tuesday saying the Boca Raton schools, which collectively enroll 1,302 students, were locked down “as…
A Dutch watchdog group on anti-Semitism called on owners of event halls not to host Holocaust denier David Irving, who reportedly is planning a lecture in The Hague. Irving, who has been barred from several countries and was jailed in 2006 in Austria for denying or minimizing the Jewish genocide, is scheduled to speak somewhere…
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is responding to a swastika incident in a student dormitory by hosting a campus-wide forum on anti-Semitism. On Jan. 26, Nazi swastikas and pictures of Adolf Hitler were posted on a Jewish student’s dorm room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Jewish student, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, described the incident…
An Israeli government ministry held a secret conference in Jerusalem with international Jewish leaders on ways to fight Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaigns against Israel. Some 150 leaders and activists attended the conference Sunday and Monday run by the Strategic Affairs Ministry, the Hebrew-language news website NRG first reported. They were asked to keep the…
A Jewish student is accusing Rutgers University of mishandling a mid-January incident in which one of her roommates taped a swastika to the ceiling of their shared living room. Sara Rosen, a senior at Rutgers, is faulting the New Jersey state university administration for responding to a swastika by moving her to a different dorm…
Students at McGill University voted 59.6% in favor of a resolution supporting the anti-Israel BDS movement. The motion passed on Monday by a secret ballot vote of 512-357 with 14 abstentions. However, only about 3% of the Montreal university’s student body of 30,000 participated in the vote. McGill BDS Action Network presented the motion. It…
The Dutch capital profited from the Nazi occupation’s persecution of Jews by raising their rent after they were confined to ghettos, a new study revealed. The discovery was first reported by the Het Parool daily on Feb. 18 based on the findings of Stephan Steinmetz, a political science scholar, in his new book “Asterdorp” –…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Jerusalem with leaders of the American Reform movement, who thanked him for the decision to expand the egalitarian prayer section at the Western Wall. The leaders, in Israel for the annual meeting of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Reform movement’s rabbinical organization, met with Netanyahu on…
(JTA) — Nearly half the states in the country are considering legislation aimed at countering the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS, movement. But critics say some bills are cause for concern, either because they seek to confer legitimacy on Israeli settlements or go so far in punishing boycott supporters they infringe on constitutionally protected…
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is seeking messages and personal artifacts from Holocaust survivors for a time capsule to be opened on the museum’s 50th anniversary in 2043. The capsule will be on display in the museum’s David and Fela Shapell Family Collections and Conservation Center in Bowie, Maryland, which is scheduled to be opened…
Billionaire entertainment mogul Haim Saban has unveiled a $100 million venture capital fund for Israeli startups. The Saban Ventures fund will invest in companies in the mobile, social networks, ecommerce and digital media sectors, the Israeli business daily Globes reported. The fund also will be open to investing in fields such as cloud computing and…
