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Culture What The Desecrated Jewish Cemeteries Mean For The Living And The Dead
Why does the sight of a toppled gravestone incense us so sorely? As a way in, imagine a different sort of scenario, one perhaps more visceral and more literal in its horror. Imagine the photographs of Roman Vishniac from his book, “A Vanished World.” The photographs depict Eastern European shtetl life just before the cataclysm…
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Opinion Why Anti-Semitic Attacks Are Good For Donald Trump
More than 200 headstones overturned. Eighty-nine bomb threats and counting. We are living through a paroxysm of anti-Semitic violence not seen in the United States in two generations. But there are at least three crucial questions to which we do not know the answer. First, and most narrowly, we don’t yet know who is committing…
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Fast Forward Natan Sharansky Blames American Anti-Semitism On Right — And Left
Natan Sharanksy, the chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, condemned anti-Semitism perpetrated by the right in the United States, linking it to anti-Zionism in the left. “If ever there was a line between the anti-Semitism of the far right and the anti-Israelism of the radical left, the demonization of Jews and the demonization of…
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Fast Forward As Threats Mount, JCC’s Stockpile Blankets, Diapers — And Resilience
(JTA) — Growing up in a small town in Georgia, Harriet Shirley may have had more exposure to Jews and anti-Semitism than the rest of her fellow Christians. She had Jewish acquaintances, read Holocaust nonfiction as a teen and later visited concentration camps on a trip to Europe. But she was still dumbfounded when the…
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Fast Forward Trump Suggests Wave Of Threats To JCCs Could Be Fake — Or Aimed To Embarrass Him
A closed-door comment made by the president during a meeting with state attorneys general, may indicate that President Donald Trump does not think the bomb threats against Jewish community centers and schools are credible — although he did condemn them. Trump was asked during the meeting about the wave of anti-Semitic threats to Jewish institutions…
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Fast Forward Trump Opens Congress Address With Condemnation of Anti-Semitic Attacks
President Trump opened his speech to a joint session of Congress with a condemnation of attacks against Jews and other minorities. “Recent threats targeting Jewish Community Centers and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, as well as last week’s shooting in Kansas City, remind us that while we may be a Nation divided on policies, we are a…
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Fast Forward Former Envoy Calls Trump’s Plan To Nix Anti-Semitism Post A ‘Disaster’
News that President Trump plans to eliminate the office of the special envoy to counter anti-Semitism as part of his planned budget cuts was met with some serious pushback from Jewish leaders — and from the last person to hold the position. “I can’t believe someone at the White House won’t have better sense… This is…
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News Something’s Happenin’ Here, As Chicago Jews and Muslims Deepen Ties
Post-election outreach between Jewish and Muslim groups in Chicago reached a new level of depth and intensity over a varied series of meetings last week. Though many of these groups began connecting with each prior to the election of Donald Trump as president, post-election developments drove and dominated the recent political, educational, and social events,…
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