A trustee of the Jersey City Board of Education is being criticized for writing a Facebook message that seemed to blame the Jewish community for the attack on a kosher grocery store last week, the website Insider NJ reported. “Mr. Anderson and Ms. Graham went directly to the Kosher supermarket,” board of education trustee Joan…
The man and woman accused of killing three people in a Jersey City, N.J. kosher grocery store were both found to have keys that could unlock handcuffs — the man’s in his underwear, local news station NBC4 reported Monday, citing law enforcement sources. Police searching through the clothes of David Anderson and Francine Graham, the…
A man who lives across the street from a Des Moines, Iowa elementary school is defending his decision to display artwork with Confederate and Nazi imagery, the Associated Press reported Monday. William Stark had been harshly criticized by local parents and the school district for showcasing the painted wooden pallets stacked on his property. In…
(JTA) — Three Jewish students at Indiana University trying to enter a fraternity party were physically assaulted and subjected to anti-Semitic slurs by members of the fraternity. The university in Bloomington said in a statement that it was “fully investigating” the incident, in which the Jewish students were attacked when attempting to enter the Pi…
(JTA) — A synagogue in Beverly Hills was vandalized in what police are investigating as a hate crime. At approximately 2 a.m. Saturday, according to a statement from the Beverly Hills Police Department, a suspect described as a white male entered the Nessah Synagogue, a Persian Jewish congregation, and vandalized the sanctuary. Photos of the…
Leaders from different faith communities and branches of government met in Jersey City today to talk about the tragic anti-Semitic shooting at a kosher grocery store this week. Imams, priests, rabbis and elected officials all voiced their sympathies for the victims’ families and called for action, including bias education, to prevent more violence. About 35…
Many British Jews group expressed their relief that the Labour Party suffered their worst electoral defeat in decades on Thursday. Party leader Jeremy Corbyn had been criticized for years amid claims that he allowed anti-Semitism to fester within the party, and a poll found that 87% of British Jews believed that he was personally anti-Semitic….
A Jewish teenager working on a school project about her ancestors discovered that she is related to White House senior advisor Stephen Miller – and wrote an op-ed in the Orlando Sentinel condemning him. Georgia Bernbaum was doing a school project about Fannie Nisselbaum, her great-great-great-aunt who had immigrated to the United States from a…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shared a campaign video made by Britain’s Labour Party on Thursday, the day of the British election. “The hoarding of wealth by the few is coming at the cost of peoples’ lives,” she wrote. “The only way we change is with a massive surge of new voters at the polls. UK, Vote!”…
New Jersey officials believe the two shooters at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City were motivated by bias against Jews and the police. “We believe that the suspects held views that reflected hatred of the Jewish people as well as a hatred of law enforcement,” the state’s attorney general, Gurbir Grewal, said at a news…
Neighbors of one of the suspects in the attack on a Jersey City, New Jersey kosher grocery store told reporters that she was a pleasant and friendly person before she began dating the man who allegedly embarked on the shooting spree with her. Francine Graham worked as a home health aide and lived in the…
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