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Culture I Survived Teaching Jewish Studies in North Carolina
I teach Jewish history in North Carolina, a land haunted by Jesus Christ. It is a land where the present is the biblical past. It is a land where the Second Coming is apparently coming any moment now. It is a land where devout Christians are eager to share the good news. It is a…
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The Schmooze Mayim Bialik: ‘UCLA Isn’t Anti-Semitic’
Getty Images JTA) — The incidents at my alma mater, UCLA, in the past weeks have shaken us all. As a Bruin, to hear that members of the student government were considering not electing a perfectly competent student to a position because she was Jewish is astounding and frightening. As a Jew and a Hillel supporter…
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Fast Forward Security Costs ‘Bankrupt’ European Jewish Communities: U.S. Anti-Semitism Envoy
Jewish communities in Europe are “being bankrupted” by the need to provide security for their institutions, the U.S. special envoy on anti-Semitism said. “Every Jewish community in Western Europe certainly needs security support,” said Ira Forman, the State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, said Friday in Stockholm, the French news agency AFP…
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Fast Forward French Jewish Teens Beaten Walking From Synagogue
Two Jewish teens in France were robbed and beaten after leaving their Marseille synagogue. The teens were attacked on Tuesday by two assailants who they described as youth “of African origin,” according to the National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism, or BNVCA. According to the victims, the assailants said, “Dirty Jews, we will exterminate all…
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Fast Forward Amsterdam Suburb Hit by Hook-Nosed Stickers Aimed at Jews
Two Dutch mayors condemned the appearance of stickers featuring a cartoon nose on shops in a heavily Jewish suburb of the Dutch capital. The stickers were spotted earlier this month on the shop windows of several businesses in Amstelveen, a municipality just south of Amsterdam, which is home to approximately one third of the 50,000…
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Opinion Are Lithuania’s Swastika-Studded Marchers Really ‘Fascists’?
All photos by Daiva Repečkaitė “Lithuanian fascists march beneath swastikas near execution site of 10,000 Jews.” When this recent headline appeared in the Jerusalem Post and a few other outlets, it reminded me of the time I’d casually thrown the “fascist” label into an email exchange with classmates. “We can meet in the center after…
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Fast Forward U.S. Senator Ben Cardin Named Anti-Semitism Watchdog for OSCE
U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin was named the special representative on anti-Semitism and intolerance for the 57-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly. Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the senior Democratic senator on the U.S. Helsinki Commission, was tapped on Monday for the newly created position,…
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Culture A Textbook Case of Anti-Semitism in Oldenburg
Oldenburg, Germany, is made of people who are historically ahead of their time. “In 1932,” a man tells me as I arrive there, “the people here were the first to vote for a local Nazi government. We did it before Berlin!” This man, I learn quickly, is not the only one in Oldenburg who remembers…
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