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Breaking News 2 Boston-Area Schools Scrap Hockey Season Over Players’ Anti-Semitism
(JTA) – Two Boston-area high schools canceled the hockey season for their joint boys team over what faculty said was anti-Semitic comments and actions by players against a teammate. Officials at Keefe Regional Technical School and Marian High School in Framingham, a suburb of Boston situated 25 miles east of the city, declined to give…
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Breaking News Abe Foxman Blasts David Friedman for ‘Ugly’ Attack on Anti-Defamation League
WASHINGTON – Abraham Foxman, the retired Anti-Defamation League director, said language that President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Israel directed at the group is “unacceptable” and “ugly.” “Ambassador-designate Friedman’s ugly language in describing ADL, its current CEO, and J Street is unacceptable and it undermines the need for unity in our community to face…
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News ADL ‘Helped’ A&E on KKK Reality Show Drawing Boycott Threats
A new documentary series that promises to go inside the private lives of Ku Klux Klan members is drawing instant condemnation on social media. But the Anti-Defamation League, which is partnering with the show’s distributors, is standing up for the program. Set to air on the cable channel A&E, home of reality shows like “Duck…
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News Standing With Muslims: Chicago Jews Grapple With Challenge on Eve of Trump Era
Amid the rising fears that minorities harbor about the coming Trump era, Jewish leaders here are fiercely debating: What is to be done? Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s personal appeal to Trump in a December 7 meeting to preserve the Delayed Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and give up his plans for large-scale deportations of immigrants…
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Community The League of Defamation
Raymond Donovan, President Reagan’s Secretary of Labor, was repeatedly investigated and cleared — including by the FBI and Justice Department — of apparently politically-motivated accusations of bribing union officials, mob connections and fraud by his construction company. Still, in 1985, a politically ambitious Democratic Bronx District Attorney resurrected those accusations, and secured a highly-publicized 137-count…
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News Protestors Slam Hanukkah Party at Trump Hotel — as Jewish Leaders Celebrate Inside
Under the banner of “Jewish Resistance,” several hundred activists protested Wednesday evening outside the Trump Hotel in Washington, where the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations held its Hanukkah reception. Protesters marched from nearby Freedom Plaza along Pennsylvania Avenue and gathered outside the brand new hotel to express their dismay with the decision…
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News Anti-Semitism Bill Will Not Pass Congress This Year
A controversial bill that would have defined some criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism will not make it through Congress this year. The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2016 would have instructed the U.S. Department of Education to consider a definition of anti-Semitism that includes “judg[ing] Israel by a double standard” when investigating federal discrimination claims. The…
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Opinion The ‘Anti-Semitism Awareness Act’ Is the Opposite of What Jews and Muslims Need Now
I was pleased to see Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, gallantly tweet that he would “register as a Muslim” in the event that such a registry were created. But despite this initial gesture, actions that the organization has since taken are less encouraging. After initially defending Rep. Keith Ellison from charges of anti-Semitism,…
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