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Fast Forward Rabbi stabbed in antisemitic attack said assailant ‘planned for this’
The rabbi who was brutally stabbed outside his Boston area synagogue wrote that his assailant was motivated by “hate for the Jews as individuals, hate for us as a people.” In a moving opinion essay in The Boston Globe, Rabbi Shlomo Noginski, the Chabad Rabbi attacked at the beginning of July outside the Shaloh House…
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Fast Forward Mark Zuckerberg shared a photo of his dog wearing a yarmulke. He was ‘inundated’ with antisemitic comments.
(JTA) — Not even the CEO of Facebook’s dog is immune to online antisemitism. Mark Zuckerberg posted a photo to his platform of his family pet — a Hungarian sheepdog named Beast — wearing a yarmulke and a canine-sized tallit, or Jewish prayer shawl, on Tuesday. The post was quickly inundated with comments, most of…
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News Whatever happened to that John Hopkins teaching assistant who wanted to punish ‘Zionist students?’
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has reportedly concluded its investigation into the actions of a teaching assistant who asked in a tweet last Nov. 15 if she could lower the grade of “Zionist students” because of their support for “ethnic cleansing.” But the university has not disclosed its findings nor replied to those asking what…
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News Antisemitism on TikTok spiked 912% says a new study. But is it accurate?
It’s no secret that antisemitism runs rampant on TikTok, the viral video sharing app. And yet when a recently released study from the University of Haifa showed a 912% increase in antisemitism on the app since 2020, the size of the spike seemed shocking. I’ve reported on TikTok for months, both on its inventive Jewish…
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Culture Canceled fashion blogger is easy to hate — but it’s no excuse for antisemitism
Leandra Medine Cohen, founder of quirky fashion site Man Repeller, said she always assumed she’d be canceled — she just thought it would be because she was a terrible leader, not because of racism or privilege. She didn’t even realize she was privileged, she said in a recent podcast interview, until last summer’s racial justice…
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News Amid calls for Jewish unity, rally against antisemitism centers Israel
It was the likely first major protest against domestic antisemitism held in the nation’s capital in American history, but to many it bore more resemblance to a pro-Israel rally. “No Fear: A Rally In Solidarity with the Jewish People” brought more than 2,000 to the Capitol Sunday, when the temperature approached 90 degrees. Relatively few…
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News LIVE UPDATES: Jews and allies gather at the Capitol to rally against antisemitism
Jews and allies from across the East Coast and beyond demonstrated Sunday afternoon in Washington against rising antisemitism and hostility toward Israel. The gathering was sponsored by the entire Jewish establishment even as a handful of influential progressive organizations declined to participate amid concerns over how the event will approach Israel. Attendees were brought to…
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News A 139 percent uptick in hate crimes in NYC? Well, sort of.
A New York Post article published on July 3 that described a 139% increase in hate crimes since the same period last year generated a firestorm on social media this week. “Escape From New York was a good movie… Now it’s real life?” one person tweeted on July 5. “NYC is a criminal’s paradise,” another…
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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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News A Jewish farmer drove 600 miles to rescue a century-old synagogue. Now he’s building a new one in a cornfield.
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Opinion Pete Hegseth is targeting a Jewish American hero — who’s next?
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Opinion The two things I fear most after the horrifying attack on Jews in Boulder
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Film & TV In Jerusalem, everything is political — even the stone architects used to design the city
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Fast Forward Zohran Mamdani: Even if I wanted to go to Israel as NYC mayor, Israel probably wouldn’t let me
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Fast Forward After IDF intercepts Greta Thunberg’s Gaza flotilla, crew posts videos calling themselves ‘kidnapped’
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