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The Schmooze 5 Surprising Things We Learned About ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt Last Night
After enduring months of targeted attacks against the global Jewish community, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Jewish Community Centers (JCC) across the country have been a consistent presence in the media for all the wrong reasons. Last night’s delightful conversation with Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the ADL, at the Manhattan JCC was a very welcome…
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Community Will AIPAC Speak Out Against Islamophobia?
Last Shabbat I found a letter in my mailbox. The address line said only, “Shabbat Shalom.” I live in the Jewish Culture House at Tufts, and the letter was meant for us. It was from a group of Iranian students. They’d heard about a rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the United States – the overturned…
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Opinion How Jewish Groups Are Perpetuating A Myth About Trump And Anti-Semitism
The nomination and election of Donald Trump has caused a record spike in anti-Semitism. That is the narrative many Jewish groups and the media have promoted since the Republican primaries. Here’s an unfortunate fact for those continuing to press this narrative: it keeps on being proven false. First, let’s take the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) report…
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Community In Defense of the ‘Jewish Establishment’
Some young Jews have barely experienced anti-Semitism in their lives, and for that they have the “Jewish establishment” to thank. Others of us, however, have not been so fortunate, and still depend on Jewish institutions to provide us with the communities and tools that we need to deal with everyone from the “alt-right” to our…
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Fast Forward ADL To Combat Online Hate From Heart Of Silicon Valley
(JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League will build a Silicon Valley “command center” to combat online hate speech and harassment, the group’s CEO announced. Jonathan Greenblatt made the announcement Sunday at the South by Southwest music and media festival in Austin, Texas. He said the ADL secured seed funding for the project from Omidyar Network, a self-styled…
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Opinion The Jewish Right Is Dead Wrong For Downplaying Anti-Semitism
Even though nearly half of the country’s Jewish community centers have received bomb threats; swastikas have defaced schools, colleges and synagogues, and cemeteries have been desecrated, there still seems to be a question about whether America is really experiencing a surge of anti-Semitism. Mystifyingly, other Jews are asking the question. While those skeptics decry the…
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Fast Forward ADL Announces Opposition To Israel’s Anti-BDS Law
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League became the second establishment Jewish organization to speak out against Israel’s new anti-BDS law. “Israel’s democracy, pluralism, open society serve as best defense against #BDS,” the group said on Twitter on Wednesday, using the acronym for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. “New law harms rather than helps.” Israel’s…
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Israel News American Critics Of Israel Anguished By Ban On Boycott Backers
American Jews who love Israel and see boycott as a tool to change the country for the better are anguished over a new Israeli law that could ban them from visiting the country they cherish. Israel’s parliament passed a law February 6 to ban advocates of the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel,…
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