(JTA) — A man was captured on surveillance video writing what police say is anti-Semitic graffiti in Russian on the wall of a Boston-area Chabad Center. He also drew a symbol that closely resembles a swastika above the words, the Boston-area ABC affiliate WCVB reported. The Brookline Police Department said it was investigating the Sunday…
Hundreds of protesters organized by the Jewish group Never Again Action marched on Amazon’s headquarters outside of Boston Thursday, leading to the arrest of 12 activists who refused to leave the building. The marchers sang protest songs while walking in the streets from the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston to Amazon’s building in Cambridge,…
(JTA) — An Israeli woman who lives in Massachusetts chased down and held a man who exposed himself to her while she was jogging. Single mother Aia Polansky, 33, was running in Cambridge when the male jogger dropped his pants to his knees as she ran by. Polansky, a 6-foot-1-inch-tall veteran of the Israel Defense…
BOSTON (JTA) — A rabbi here has asked congregants to consider bringing guns to religious services as a form of protection in response to recent shootings at synagogues across the country. Rabbi Dan Rodkin of Shaloh House in Brighton, a Boston neighborhood with a large number of Russian-speaking Jews, told the public radio station WBUR…
(JTA) — A group of teenage yeshiva boys saved a man from drowning in the Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Boston. The man they saved, it turned out, has a tattoo of a Nazi swastika on his hand. The incident occurred last week, NBC10 Boston reported. The teens, who study at a yeshiva high school in…
Reports of four different cases of swastika vandalism were published in four different cities on Wednesday, the latest examples of anti-Semitic incidents that have affected the Jewish community this month, ranging from defacement of property to attempted arson. In New York City, police are investigating who drew a swastika on the front door of the…
BOSTON (JTA) — A fire outside the suburban Boston home of a rabbi that serves at a Chabad center is being investigated as a possible hate crime. Police in Arlington, Massachusetts, have asked for the public’s help in identifying a person caught on a neighbor’s video camera walking away from the home Saturday night around…
(JTA) — Boston’s Jewish Community Relations Council passed a resolution saying its members cannot partner with Jewish groups that are anti-Zionist, setting up a showdown with one of its members, the local branch of the Workmen’s Circle. The resolution, approved on Thursday evening, states that working with Jewish anti-Zionist groups, specifically by co-sponsoring events or…
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