(JTA) — The number of anti-Semitic incidents documented in Britain increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2019, reaching a record tally of 1,805 cases. Overall, the increase over 2018 was of 7%, but the category of assault increased by 27% to 157 incidents, the Community Security Trust, or CST, British Jewry’s largest watchdog on…
LOS ANGELES (JTA) – Kirk Douglas, the legendary actor who portrayed legions of tough guys and embraced his Jewish heritage later in life, died at his home in Beverly Hills on Wednesday. He was 103. Over a career that spanned 87 films — including 73 big screen features and 14 television films — the blond,…
(JTA) — Facebook has removed a page that opposes the expansion of the Orthodox population around Lakewood, New Jersey. The page, called Rise Up Ocean County, had been called anti-Semitic by local leaders. “We’ve been clear that this page trafficked in hate that has no place in NJ,” state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal wrote Wednesday…
The Forward has filed a lawsuit against the New York City Police Department, demanding access to public records related to anti-Semitic hate crimes. The suit, filed in New York County Supreme Court on Tuesday, followed months of unsuccessful requests for the records under the New York State’s Freedom of Information Law. The NYPD “has improperly…
(JTA) — A vote on a resolution condemning a display by a pro-Palestinian student group at the University of California, Berkeley, by a student government committee was postponed after scuffles broke out between group members and pro-Israel students. The Associated Students of the University of California Senate’s University and External Affairs Committee met on Tuesday…
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans were painted on several headstones at a Jewish cemetery in the Netherlands. The incident in Dordrecht, situated about 40 miles south of Amsterdam, was discovered Tuesday, De Telegraaf daily reported. The Organization of Jewish Communities in the Netherlands, or NIK, filed a police complaint. Mayor Wouter Kolff said…
(JTA) — Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter was killed in the 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, was removed from the State of the Union address after yelling out in protest when President Donald Trump spoke about gun rights. “Just as we believe in the First Amendment, we also believe in another…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is now in overdrive, judging by the way he turned much of this year’s State of the Union into a campaign pitch. “We are moving forward at a pace that was unimaginable just a short time ago, and we are never going back!” he said during the speech…
NEW YORK (JTA) — There were fewer anti-Semitic hate crimes in New York City in January than in the same month last year. The period between Jan. 1 and Feb. 2 saw 21 hate crimes directed at Jews, according to a preliminary set of statistics published Tuesday by the New York Police Department. The same…
(JTA) — Duke University has resolved a discrimination complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights over a Middle East conference on Gaza co-sponsored with the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The Zionist Organization of America filed the complaint in April 2019 over the conference held the previous month at the…
(JTA) — Israel is the only one of 33 non-U.S. countries where a majority expresses net approval of President Donald Trump’s major foreign policies, according to a Pew Research Center survey. Some 55 percent of Israelis in the spring 2019 poll expressed net approval of the policies – meaning they back more of the policies…
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