The Zionist Organization of America sent a letter to the president of Rutgers University, urging him to do more to combat anti-Semitism on the campus. ZOA was responding to an incident in which a Jewish student was the victim of an anti-Semitic attack by a university-funded, student-run satirical newspaper. The ZOA leadership in an April…
A Republican candidate for the Senate drew fire from Jewish groups for likening no-smoking laws to the yellow stars Jews were forced to wear in Nazi Germany. John Raese, who is seeking to oust Sen. Joe Manchin (D- W.Va.) lashed out at an April 12 GOP event at laws that require his businesses to post…
MASHAV, Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) signed a “Memorandum of Understanding” in Washington on Wednesday, to enhance bilateral cooperation on food security – known as the “Feed the future” project – which at this point, is focusing on Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. Dr. Rajiv Shah,…
On today’s date, April 20, in 1889, Adolf Hitler was born. It wasn’t by chance that the German aktzia (roundup ) to wipe out the Warsaw Ghetto was scheduled for this date, leading to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which began on April 19, 1943 – the 15th of the Hebrew month of Nisan. This year,…
Days after Israel Defense Forces chief Benny Gantz opted to dismiss Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner for striking a foreign left-wing protester, new video evidence released by an Israeli NGO pertains to prove the Israeli officer employed brute force unprovoked. According to a statement, which was attached to the Palestinian television clip, by B’Tselem, Eisner is…
On April 15, 2002, 10 years ago this week, Marwan Barghouti, the secretary general of Fatah’s Tanzim militia, was arrested by members of the undercover Duvdevan unit of the Israel Defense Forces in Ramallah. His capture was preceded by two weeks of cat-and-mouse games with the IDF and the Shin Bet security service, during which…
President Obama marked Holocaust Remembrance day with calls to combat Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism, as well as for vigilance against current and future atrocities. “As societies, we must stand against ignorance and anti-Semitism, including those who try to deny the Holocaust,” Obama said in a statement issued Thursday. “As nations, we must do everything we…
Gay and lesbian students will be ordained as Conservative rabbis in Israel. The Board of Trustees of the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary voted Thursday night to accept gay and lesbian students for ordination beginning with the 2012-13 academic year. The Conservative movement in Israel is known as Masorti. A seminary statement said the decision comes following…
The Occupy Tampa movement posted an anti-Semitic cartoon on their Facebook page on Thursday, which coincided with Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. The cartoon, shown below, depicted a Jewish man with a big nose and large beard driving a car with the symbol of the United Nations as the wheel and U.S. President Barack Obama’s head…
Global anti-Semitism fell by 27 percent in 2011, according to an annual report. The Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University presented its global anti-Semitism report for 2011 on Wednesday, the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The report showed that the number of cases of major violent incidents, including…
A painting stolen from its Italian Jewish owner and sold by France’s Vichy government was returned to his heirs. “Christ Carrying the Cross Dragged by a Rogue,” a 16th-century work by Girolamo de’ Romani, is going back to the heirs of Federico Gentili di Giuseppe, who owned the painting until he died in France in…
