(JTA) — A “virtual rally” to combat antisemitism exhibited rare agreement between the leading Republicans and Democrats in Congress on the need to fight hatred of Jews. The Zoom event, which approximately 23,000 people attended Thursday, was held in the wake of an increase in antisemitism nationwide surrounding the recent conflict in Israel and Gaza….
Federal police found a host of Nazi and other white supremacist material at the home of Robert Keith Packer, the man who was photographed wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt during the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6. The items, including “Swastika artwork” and an “image of Hitler” were seized during a search conducted on January…
(JTA) — Patti Smith and Julian Casablancas of The Strokes are among the more than 600 musicians who have signed a letter calling for artists to avoid playing concerts in Israel. “We call on you to join us with your name in refusing to perform at Israel’s complicit cultural institutions,” says the letter, which began…
MONTREAL (JTA) — Canadian Jews are reeling from an onslaught of public antisemitic rhetoric and violence triggered by the recent military conflict between Israel and Gaza. Montreal and Toronto were especially hard hit, but incidents occurred elsewhere prior to the cease-fire reached last week. Tensions flared between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli demonstrators, and in some instances…
(JTA) — A train passenger in Austria asked a couple of fellow passengers to stop denying the Holocaust and engaging in antisemitic rhetoric about Jews and Israel. It didn’t go well: One of the passengers punched him in the face. The incident happened on May 21 near Amstetten, a city located 70 miles east of…
Four suspects have been arrested for allegedly attacking Jews and shouting antisemitic slurs outside two Brooklyn synagogues during the past week. In Borough Park, three men reportedly leapt out of their car in front of a synagogue to harass and assault Jewish men attending Shabbat services. They allegedly punched the victims and chased them with…
It turns out that Jews have had a complicated relationship with kosher laws far longer than one might imagine. A recent study published by Israeli archaeologists in the journal called Tel Aviv, examined why the bones of seemingly non-kosher fish such as catfish, shark and skate keep showing up in the remains of the ancient…
More than 500 Amazon employees have signed a letter asking company leaders to sever any business with the Israeli Defense Forces and to reject any definition of antisemitism that implies that criticism of Israel or Zionism is antisemitic. The open letter is one of several that employees of American tech giants, including Google and Apple,…
(JTA) — The Genesis Philanthropy Group, which funds Jewish identity-building efforts for Russian-speaking and other Jews around the world, has allocated over $4 million to help Jewish organizations in Europe with financial problems related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The money will be divided among such institutions as the Gan Eden Kindergarten in Romania; the Jewish…
Douglas Emhoff, the Jewish husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, addressed Jewish American leaders Wednesday on recent violent antisemitic attacks, telling them that nobody should fear for their safety in America, several participants on the call told the Forward. “I am here on behalf of the administration to express to all of you that we…
(JTA) — A 29-year-old man has been arrested in Ukraine in the suspected murder this month of a prominent Holocaust and Jewish history researcher there. Police in Nikolayev, near Odessa, made the arrest Tuesday in the May 14 slaying of Vladimir Shchukin, 67, who had worked at the State Archive of the Nikolaev Region. The…
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