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Fast Forward Man Who Snatched Orthodox Women’s Wigs Arrested In California
A man suspected of pulling wigs off the heads of Orthodox Jewish women in North Hollywood, California, was arrested Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reported. Police believe the women were targeted because they’re Jewish. The man was not immediately identified. He is accused of three instances of battery, the Times reported. An 80-year-old woman said…
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Fast Forward Texas Jewish Food Truck Vandalized In Alleged Hate Crime
(JTA) — A crowdfunding campaign has raised more than $12,000 to help the owner of a Texas food truck that serves kosher-style food after it was vandalized in an anti-Semitic attack. Scotty Grossbard opened his Jew Hungry? food truck in Austin, Texas eight months ago. It serves traditional Jewish foods, including matzo ball soup, latkes…
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Fast Forward Trump Says Anti-Semitism Is A Problem — But Doesn’t Have Any Solutions
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump said he rejects white supremacism and anti-Semitism, but did not say how he would counter the phenomena and angrily rejected claims that his rhetoric spurs division. Reporters peppered Trump with questions about a range of issues in a free-wheeling press conference on Wednesday after Trump’s Republican Party lost control…
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Fast Forward Teens’ Anti-Semitic Attacks In Brooklyn Caught On Video
(JTA) — The New York Police Department is circulating surveillance video of a group of preteens and teens that it says has carried out a series of anti-Semitic attacks in Brooklyn. The incidents include a metal pipe thrown through the window of a synagogue in the Hasidic neighborhood of Williamsburg on Nov. 3 during afternoon…
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Culture What To Read About Anti-Semitism After Pittsburgh
The history of anti-Semitism is sprawling and ugly. But as Americans look to understand this unique prejudice in the aftermath of the massacre in Pittsburgh, a number of books and essays can serve as useful primers on the subject. The New York Times recently suggested three such titles: “(((SEMITISM))): Being Jewish in America in the…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Fliers Found In Office On University Of Rochester Campus
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic fliers were discovered in an office on the campus of the University of Rochester. The fliers were found on Monday morning on a printer at the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at the university‘s River Campus, the local ABC affiliate 13WHAM reported. “Anti-Semitic messages were faxed to…
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Fast Forward Typing ‘Oven’ Into Gab Is Likely To Pull Up Conversations About Jews
Searching “oven” on forum-site Reddit will mostly call up threads on pizza. But doing the same on Gab, the site the alleged Pittsburgh synagogue shooter used to express anti-Semitic views, brings up “Jews,” “Holocaust” and “Hitler.” Twitter user Jason Baumgartner, who owns a site dedicated to detecting hate speech on social media, analyzed “oven” as…
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Opinion Anti-Semitism Is On The Ballot. Jews Must Vote No.
At no time in the last half century have American Jews had more of a reason to worry about their safety. As the campaign of Donald J. Trump gained momentum in 2016, the dark, wriggling fringes of the white nationalist right molted and spread new wings, incubated by a candidate who nursed their anger and…
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Opinion How anti-Israel rhetoric led to the killing of 2 in Washington, DC
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Opinion After the DC shooting it’s clear: The pro-Palestine movement must be purged of violent extremism
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Opinion I want Palestinians to be free. But hearing the Capital Jewish Museum shooter’s chant terrifies me
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Fast Forward Trump administration says Columbia University ‘continually failed to protect Jewish students’
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Art Ben Shahn was a radical artist — why didn’t he want to be called a Jewish one?
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