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Fast Forward UPDATE: Google diversity chief reassigned for saying Jews have “insatiable appetite for war”
Updated 6/3 1:00 ET Google said Wednesday night it had reassigned the company’s diversity lead, whose 2007 blog post suggested Jewish people have an “insatiable appetite for war.” “These writings are unquestionably hurtful,” the company’s press office said in a statement. “The author acknowledges this and has apologized. He will no longer be part of…
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Fast Forward Cory Booker starts new coalition of Black and Jewish senators to tackle antisemitism and racism
(JTA) — Sen. Cory Booker is leading a group of U.S. Jewish and Black senators in establishing a coalition to fight antisemitism and racism. The so-called Black-Jewish coalition will also include Booker’s fellow Democrats Sens. Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, as well as Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican from across…
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Opinion Conversion students are asking me if it’s safe to become Jewish. This is what I tell them.
(JTA) — “Rabbi Adar, is it dangerous to wear my Jewish star?” In 12 years of teaching “Introduction to the Jewish Experience” through HaMaqom|The Place in the San Francisco Bay Area, no student ever asked me that question in those words. This year three students have asked it of me. The first student who asked…
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Fast Forward Vandal attacks L.A. synagogue, kosher restaurant
A vandal carrying a box of concrete slabs targeted an Orthodox synagogue and a kosher steakhouse in Los Angeles Thursday night, adding to a spate of attacks on American Jewish communities in the wake of the Israel/Gaza conflict. Young Israel of Century City and Pat’s Restaurant a few hundred feet from each other at the…
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News Second suspect arrested in L.A. antisemitic attack
Two men have now been arrested in connection with what police say was an antisemitic attack on a group of Jewish men in Los Angeles earlier this month. Investigators with the Los Angeles Police Department’s Wilshire Division took Samer Jayylusi into custody on May 25 in the Orange County city of Anaheim, though they say…
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Opinion Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Holocaust tweet was a gift to Democrats
In today’s political environment, where everyone is either a Nazi or communist — and, as ever, the Jews are unhappily stuck in the middle — it was almost bound to happen. Like so many discarded blue face masks spread across the asphalt of a shopping center parking lot, the gauntlet was thrown down on May…
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Fast Forward ‘Virtual rally’ to denounce antisemitism unites Pelosi, Schumer, McCarthy and McConnell
(JTA) — A “virtual rally” to combat antisemitism exhibited rare agreement between the leading Republicans and Democrats in Congress on the need to fight hatred of Jews. The Zoom event, which approximately 23,000 people attended Thursday, was held in the wake of an increase in antisemitism nationwide surrounding the recent conflict in Israel and Gaza….
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News How parents and rabbis are talking to kids about the rise in antisemitic attacks
As a group of Orthodox Jews walked home following Shabbat services last week in suburban Atlanta, two days after a ceasefire ended 11 days of conflict between Israel and Hamas, a man walking in another direction made the Nazi salute and yelled, “Hamas should have killed you all.” That same day, Rabbi Chaim Neiditch was…
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