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Fast Forward Swastikas spray-painted on Florida synagogue
(JTA) — Police have released images from a surveillance video showing a young white man man spray-painting swastikas on a synagogue in Sarasota, Florida. The vandalism to the front doors of Temple Emanu-El in Sarasota caused about $5,000 in damages, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office. The incident occurred on April 2 after midnight….
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Fast Forward Bail revoked for man charged with attempt to firebomb Mass. Jewish assisted living facility
(JTA) — The Massachusetts man charged with attempted arson at a Jewish-sponsored assisted living facility was ordered back to jail after prosecutors protested his release on bail. John Rathbun, 36, allegedly attempted to detonate a homemade bomb, discovered on April 2, made up of a five-gallon plastic gas canister filled with flammable liquid, at Ruth’s House,…
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Fast Forward Minnesota teens mock Jews being sent to Auschwitz in TikTok video
(JTA) — Two Minnesota high school students were criticized for sharing a video titled “Me and the boys on the way to camp,” which photoshops them dancing in a Nazi boxcar and happily skipping into Auschwitz, on the video social media platform TikTok. The video contains humorous music whose lyrics include “Tell everybody I’m on…
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Fast Forward Trump touts his efforts to combat anti-Semitism in Holocaust remembrance proclamation
(JTA) — President Donald Trump declared a week of “Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust” in an official proclamation on Friday, while touting his administration’s ongoing “efforts to combat racist and anti-Semitic discrimination.” The week of remembrance begins on Sunday, the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, begins on…
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Fast Forward Sacramento paper apologizes for anti-Semitic Easter ad
(JTA) — The Sacramento Bee apologized for running a two-page ad that the Californian daily said contained anti-Semitic language. The ad appeared on April 10 and 12, Good Friday and Easter Sunday, and featured a poem signed by a person named Robert Forest, the Jewish News of Northern California reported. “The ‘religious’ folks who ran…
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Fast Forward Man charged with trying to blow up Jewish nursing home on ‘Jew killing day’
A Massachusetts man was charged with two counts of attempted arson on Wednesday after being accused of trying to blow up a Jewish nursing home, NBC News reported. Police in Longmeadow, a town 90 minutes outside Boston, found last month what they described as a “homemade incendiary device” made out of a plastic gas container…
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News Amid coronavirus, Brazilian Jews face rising anti-Semitism
A conspiracy theory linking the novel coronavirus outbreak to Jews has been tied to a succession of anti-Semitic incidents over the past few months in Brazil. The cases have prompted a swift and concerted response from Jewish activists there. On March 14, a Facebook page dedicated to the work of Sigmund Freud posted a small…
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News Letter from Huntsville: ‘Our souls have been assaulted’
I am the rabbi of Huntsville’s Temple B’nai Sholom, Alabama’s oldest synagogue in continuous use. Over the first two nights of Passover, vandals defaced two congregations in Huntsville, The Etz Chayim Congregation and Chabad of Huntsville, with anti-Semitic graffiti. Although my temple was not attacked, our souls have been assaulted. As one of my congregants…
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