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News Guardian Angels patrol outside Shabbat services amid Brooklyn hate crime surge
The crowd outside 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood on Saturday morning included all the regulars: Hasidic men in black robes tied at the waist, small girls in tights and Mary Janes, and women in wigs. Also hovering outside 770, as the worldwide headquarters of the Lubavitcher movement is known, were Benjamin Garcia,…
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Fast Forward Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be going to the big march against anti-Semitism
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be among many elected officials attending a massive rally against anti-Semitism in New York on Sunday. A staffer for Ocasio-Cortez confirmed to the Forward that she planned to attend the “No Hate. No Fear.” march, which was organized by local Jewish organizations after a spate of violent anti-Semitic attacks in Brooklyn…
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Fast Forward Suspect in alleged Brooklyn anti-Semitic attack held on $10,000 bond
(JTA) — A suspect in an alleged anti-Semitic attack in New York City pleaded not guilty and was being held on $10,000 bond. Jasmine Lucas, 24, was charged Thursday in Brooklyn criminal court with second-degree robbery as a hate crime and second-degree assault, among other counts, for allegedly assaulting a 22-year-old Jewish man the previous…
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Fast Forward New Jersey NAACP suspends official for bashing Hasidic Jews at community forum
Updated January 8 A New Jersey NAACP leader was suspended from his position for six months after delivering a 20-minute speech in a community forum about his issues with the local Orthodox Jewish population, the news site Montclair Local reported. The Montclair NAACP’s executive committee unanimously voted Tuesday for James Harris to temporarily step down…
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Fast Forward New York Democrats condemn anti-Semitic attacks, but admit they’re not sure why they are happening
NEW YORK (JTA) — In the wake of several attacks on Jews in the New York area in recent months, seven House Democrats representing districts of New York City held a press conference to emphasize that they are committed to stamping out anti-Semitism. But in addition to discussing initiatives designed to help decrease anti-Semitic attacks,…
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Fast Forward Two men arrested for Jewish cemetery vandalism in Germany
(JTA) — German police arrested two suspects in the vandalism of a Jewish cemetery in the town of Geilenkirchen. The suspects, ages 21 and 33, allegedly knocked over more than 40 gravestones in the Jewish cemetery in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on Sunday. The men, who were reportedly wearing hoods, also defaced some…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Museum condemns Polish school’s reenactment of Nazi gas chamber
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – The Auschwitz Museum condemned a school ceremony in which students enacted a scene depicting the gassing of concentration camp victims. At a ceremony last month, seven-year-old children from the school in Łabunie in eastern Poland portrayed victims of the Nazis. The students dressed in striped uniforms and when the “gas” in…
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Fast Forward Former Italian politician attacked by youths in Venice shouting about Anne Frank
ROME (JTA) — Italian Jewish leaders voiced solidarity with former politician Arturo Scotto, who was punched in the face by youths shouting about Anne Frank in Venice’s St. Mark’s Square on New Year’s Eve. Police in Venice are investigating the incident. Scotto, a former leftist member of parliament who is not Jewish, wrote in a…
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