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Fast Forward ADL chief compares ‘radical left’ critics of Israel to right-wing extremists
‘These radical actors indisputably and unapologetically denigrate and dehumanize Jews,’ says ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt, singling out groups such as Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine.
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Fast Forward Antisemitic harassment reported at Rutgers Jewish fraternity, including by pro-Palestinian demonstrators
The school said it would increase security on campus in response.
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News ‘Simply shocking’: ADL finds 60% rise in antisemitic violence
The Anti-Defamation League tallied a record number of antisemitic incidents for 2021, partly because last spring’s violence in Israel and Gaza spurred a backlash against American Jews. The organization received 2,223 reports of incidents including harassment and assault, a nearly 10% increase from 2020 and the most ever since it started tabulating antisemitism in 1979….
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News A beloved Fresno State librarian fantasized about ‘target practice’ on Jews
A new report sheds light on Henry Miller Madden's Nazi views
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Film & TV In ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Jimmy cries antisemitism at a country club
It was an angle he never worked - cause only Saul Goodman could.
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News Noa Tishby, Israel’s new envoy, says anti-Zionism is antisemitism “100%”
While battling a new wave of terror and dealing with a complicated political crisis, the Israeli government on Monday officially established a new envoy to combat antisemitism, appointing an actor, author and pro-Israel activist who lives in Los Angeles to the unpaid post. The new envoy, Noa Tishby, said in a Zoom interview that she…
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Fast Forward Lakewood, NJ reels after string of attacks on Jews; suspect made antisemitic comments during arrest
(JTA) — The heavily Orthodox town of Lakewood, New Jersey, is reeling after a string of violent attacks on Friday afternoon and evening, which included the stabbing of a Jewish man. The alleged perpetrator of the attacks, Dion Marsh, 27, was arrested at his home Friday night and charged with murder, weapons possession and bias…
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Opinion People actually prefer live Jews, really
Horn’s focus on all the ways society has failed Jews may be electrifying, but ignores a more complicated truth
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News Exclusive: ADL chief compares student protesters to ISIS and al-Qaeda in address to Republican officials
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Yiddish אַ טור פֿון דער אויסשטעלונג „מגילת־אסתּר אין דער רעמבראַנדט־תּקופֿה“ — אויף ייִדיש!A tour of “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt” exhibit — in Yiddish!
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Fast Forward NYC Mayor Adams pushes controversial antisemitism definition as issue dominates mayoral election
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Opinion If Trump is being compared to Hitler, who was Hitler before he was Hitler?
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