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Opinion I Hid In My Bathroom From Anti-Semitic Marchers in Poland — In 2017
I came to Warsaw because I didn’t believe what I’d been told about anti-Semitism. Growing up as a Jew in New York, I often felt bombarded by elders, rabbis, and teachers who insisted that anti-Semitism remained a present force in today’s world. I was skeptical. Pogrom and Holocaust narratives spoke to an utterly different Jewish…
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Fast Forward ‘Proud Anti-Semite’: New York Driver Boasts On Bumper Sticker
Who would want to label themselves a “proud anti-Semite”? Apparently one driver in Farmingdale, New York — who slapped a bumper sticker on their car to let the world know. One woman recently spotted the sticker while driving her children home from a Girls Scout event on Route 110 in Long Island, according to a…
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Opinion Don’t Appropriate Anti-Semitism. Jews Are More Than Our Suffering
Decades after Holocaust, European intellectuals, some of them Jewish, began writing books and articles investigating the European history of ideas which led to fascism and, ultimately, to the concentration camps. Many of these intellectuals, prominent philosophers and critical theorists like Jean-Francois Lyotard, began using “the jew” as a trope or concept (indicated here with the…
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Fast Forward Judge Tells SFSU Students To File New Complaint In Anti-Semitism Lawsuit
(JTA) — A federal judge said a lawsuit filed in June by former and current Jewish San Francisco State University students did not establish that the university tolerates and encourages anti-Semitic activity, and told the lawyers to try again. Judge William Orrick of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco said Wednesday that the lawsuit…
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Fast Forward Congress Is Trying To Decide Who’s An Anti-Semite
Barry Trachtenberg, director of Wake Forest College’s Jewish studies program, wanted members of Congress to know that statements equating Israel’s actions to Nazi Germany’s are not necessarily anti-Semitic. “In fact,” he told House Judiciary Committee members, “comparisons of foreign leaders and countries to Nazism are made regularly.” The topic at hand during a Tuesday meeting…
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Opinion Hey, Congress: Pay Attention To Nazis, Not Activists
This Tuesday, Congress held a hearing to address rising campus anti-Semitism. The focus of the hearing centered around redefining of anti-Semitism under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The proposed definition would expand “anti-Semitism” to include speech that “demonizes” Israel. But it completely fails to include in its definition the kind of…
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Fast Forward Broker Says Morgan Stanley Fired Him For Having Hasidic Clients
A Staten Island man is claiming that Morgan Stanley, his former employer, fired him for pursuing Hasidic clients, SILive.com reported. Michael Pellegrino, a stockbroker, says that his bosses referred to Hasidic Jews as “unicorns” and disparaged him for having an association with the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. According to a wrongful termination suit filed by Pellegrino,…
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Opinion Expanding The Definition Of Anti-Semitism Hurts Jews: Testimony Before The House Judiciary Committee
The following is testimony presented before the House Judiciary Committee about proposed speech codes on November 7, 2017. It is increasingly common to hear reports that a “new anti-Semitism” threatens to endanger Jews on a scale not seen since the second World War and the Holocaust. Studies from several major Jewish organizations have sounded the…
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