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Breaking News Anti-Semitic Incidents Rise by 21%, ADL Says
Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States rose by 21 percent in 2014, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s annual audit of anti-Semitism. The organization counted 912 anti-Semitic incidents last year, up from 751 in 2013, with the period surrounding last summer’s Gaza war seeing a surge of incidents. The tally included 36 cases of assault or…
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Life Lena Dunham’s Piece Was Anti-Semitic. Get Over It.
Instragram By now, you’ve surely heard of the uproar of Lena Dunham’s latest New Yorker piece, titled “Dog or Jewish Boyfriend? A Quiz.” In list form, Dunham asks the reader to judge whether it is her pet dog or her Jewish boyfriend (Jack Antonoff of the rock bands Bleachers and Fun) who “doesn’t tip,” “never…
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Breaking News Lena Dunham Slammed by ADL for ‘Tasteless’ New Yorker Piece
The Anti-Defamation League has called Lena Dunham’s recent controversial piece in the New Yorker “tasteless” and “offensive.” “Dog or Jewish Boyfriend? A Quiz,” a piece by the 28-year-old actress and writer of the popular HBO show “Girls,” is a list of 35 statements that begins by asking the reader “Do the following statements refer to…
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News Want To Give to Jewish Charities? Don’t Do It Over the Phone.
Your favorite Jewish charity calls you on the phone. You haven’t renewed your membership, you’re told. What’s your credit card number, again? You might want to think twice before giving it. Jewish charities handed over a huge portion of the money they raised in telemarketing campaigns in New York in 2013 to for-profit telemarketing contractors,…
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News Susan Rice Calls Benjamin Netanyahu Speech ‘Destructive’ — ADL Dials Back Criticism
National Security Adviser Susan Rice slammed Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned speech as “destructive” and more Democrats lined up against the speech even as the Anti-Defamation League dialed down its criticism. The speech is “destructive of the fabric of the relationship,” National Security Adviser Susan Rice told Charlie Rose, a TV journalist, on Tuesday. “What has happened…
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Breaking News 69% of Americans Say Benjamin Netanyahu Speech Wrong — Want ‘Neutrality’ in Conflict
A CNN poll found that 63 percent of Americans believe it was wrong of congressional Republican leaders to invite Benjamin Netanyahu to speak without first notifying the president. The phone poll of 1,027 adults, conducted by ORC International, had a margin of error of 3 percentage points. Netanyahu is scheduled to speak March 3 to…
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Breaking News White House Hit for ‘Random’ Claim on Paris Kosher Market Terror
The Anti-Defamation League expressed concern after two top Obama administration spokesmen parsed whether last month’s deadly attack in Paris was anti-Semitic. Josh Earnest, the White House spokesman, and Jen Psaki, his State Department counterpart, later clarified on social media that they believed the deadly Jan. 9 attack by Islamist terrorists on a kosher supermarket was…
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The Schmooze Urban Outfitters Sells Holocaust-Inspired Item — Again
The Anti-Defamation League has urged Urban Outfitters to stop selling a tapestry with a design resembling the uniform that gay male prisoners were forced to wear in Nazi concentration camps. The ADL complained about the “insensitive” design of the tapestry, which features pink triangles over a gray and white pattern, in a letter to Urban…
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