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Fast Forward Nazi Posters Found On Campus At SUNY Purchase
Nazi-themed posters were found on campus at Purchase College in New York on Sunday, the last night of Hanukkah. The posters had images of Adolf Hitler and a swastika, a university spokeswoman told the Rockland/Westchester Journal News on Monday. The university police has identified a suspect, the school’s officer in charge and vice president for…
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Fast Forward Ohio Man Arrested For Planning Deadly Attack On Synagogue
(JTA) — A Toledo, Ohio-area man was arrested for planning an attack on a local synagogue. Damon Joseph, of Holland, Ohio, was charged in federal court on Monday with attempting to provide material support to ISIS. He told an undercover FBI agent that he was inspired by the shooting attack on a synagogue building in…
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Opinion Israel Keeps Covering For Its Anti-Semitic Friends — And Endangering Diaspora Jews
The Israeli government is collaborating with nationalist regimes in Eastern Europe to diminish the legacy of the Holocaust. Again. That is the gist of an exclusive report from Barak Ravid, a leading journalist in Israel, regarding a controversial planned museum in Hungary. Scoop: Israel negotiating with Hungary over controversial revisionist Holocaust museum – my story…
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Opinion Here We Are. Talking About Anti-Semitism Again.
As we lined up backstage this morning at the Anti-Defamation League’s “Never Is Now” summit, historian Deborah Lipstadt remarked that she never thought we’d be here. Not here speaking about anti-Semitism before a large audience of concerned citizens. If I wade into the topic with some regularity, Deborah — author of a soon-to-be released book…
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Fast Forward Man Charged With Hate Crime For Punching Hasidic Jew In Brooklyn
(JTA) — New York police have arrested a man alleged to have punched a Hasidic Jewish man in the head, and charged him with a hate crime. In addition to the hate crime charge, Eric Gerena, 32, who was arrested on Tuesday, was charged with assault in the third degree. The attack on Friday night…
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News Is A String Of Attacks Against Brooklyn Jews Really About Anti-Semitism?
Mindel Zaetz’s husband was chased down the street last week by a group of men while he was on his way home from work, just off of Eastern Parkway, the broad thoroughfare that runs through the middle of Crown Heights, in Brooklyn. “He came home really spooked,” said Zaetz, 29, as she was on her…
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Community Combatting Anti-Semitism…With Comedy?
As a member of a religious minority in America, I’ve always felt a bit different. I think back to elementary school, where my classmates would ask me why I don’t celebrate Christmas with a puzzled look. I remember the time, as a teenager in a small town in Wisconsin, when someone told me, “Be on…
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Fast Forward 3 Large Swastikas Spray-Painted In Brooklyn Neighborhood
(JTA) — At least three large swastikas were spray-painted in a Brooklyn neighborhood. The swastikas discovered Monday in Greenpoint were painted within a block of each other. Two were accompanied by the letters “WP,” which stands for White Power. Two of the swastikas later were crossed out with red paint and the words “No Hate” spray-painted…
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