Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader whose reforms included letting Jews leave for Israel, dies at 91
Gorbachev was a hero in Israel, where a potato was named for him and where he said he regretted the antisemitism that led to an exodus of Soviet Jews
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Murder of a Jewish man near Paris reignites fears about antisemitism in France
Eyal Haddad was murdered by his neighbor, according to a Jewish watchdog group that says antisemitism was a motive
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Jan. 6 Proud Boy rioter who approached Chuck Schumer and who made antisemitic jokes in chat sentenced to 4.5 years
Security officials said Joshua Pruitt was rushing toward Chuck Schumer.
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Campus police investigate antisemitic banners at UC Davis
Four men held banners that read “Communism is Jewish” and “The Holocaust is an anti-white lie"
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NYPD to increase patrols in Williamsburg due to rise in antisemitic hate crimes
Two arrests were made in connection to three separate antisemitic incidents in the heavily Orthodox neighborhood last week
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Aviv Geffen, icon of Israeli left, apologizes during West Bank concert for denouncing settlers
Geffen’s West Bank concerts and comments offer a potent sign that the settlements have grown politically mainstream in Israel
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Oregon’s Swastika Mountain will soon be renamed
The mountain predates the Nazis and took its name from a shuttered town where a cattle rancher branded his cows with a swastika symbol
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Yeshiva University petitions SCOTUS to block LGBTQ student club
An appeals court judge rejected the school's denial of stay earlier this month
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World Zionist Organization convenes hundreds in Basel to mark 125th anniversary of First Zionist Congress
The 1897 congress was a watershed moment in the history of modern political Zionism
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The rise and demise of Israeli pop superstars Static and Ben El
Liraz Russo and Ben El Tavori’s high-energy sound brought a string of local hits, but efforts to break out globally fell flat and their clean images were tarnished by messy personal lives
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Wolf Blitzer, the son of Holocaust survivors, discusses his new CNN special on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Blitzer's tour of the museum airs less than a week after Dana Bash's CNN special on antisemitism
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