(JTA) – Anti-Semitic hate crimes increased by 21 percent in California in 2018 from the previous year. A report issued on Tuesday by the California Department of Justice found that there were 126 hate crimes motivated by anti-Semitism in 2018, up from 104 incidents in 2017. However, the report does not distinguish what kind of…
(JTA) — The newly passed California state budget includes a number of priorities backed by Jewish legislators, from rebuilding summer camps burned in wildfires to the construction of a new Holocaust museum. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the $214.8 billion budget on Thursday. The budget includes funds for health care, child care and combatting homelessness,…
(JTA) — The California man who threatened in an online chatroom to kill Jews and commit a mass shooting at a synagogue was released on bail. Ross Anthony Farca, 23, of Concord, who was arrested on June 10, was freed on a $125,000 bond over the weekend, the Concord Police Department said in a statement…
(JTA) — A California man who threatened in an online chatroom to kill Jews and to commit a mass shooting at a synagogue was arrested. Ross Anthony Farca, 23, of Concord, California, said in the chatroom on the video game platform Steam that he wanted to emulate the Poway synagogue shooter “except with a Nazi…
(JTA) — Langer’s Deli, a well-known kosher-style restaurant in Los Angeles, has denied kicking out a couple for sharing a same-sex kiss. A woman posted on social media this week that the restaurant’s owner, Norm Langer, kicked her and her partner out during their meal on Saturday after they kissed. The woman wrote in a…
A California man carved a giant swastika into his front yard, then claimed he doesn’t know it was a hateful symbol, NBC News San Diego reported. The El Sobrante homeowner, Steven Johnson, asserted that it’s actually a centuries-old Tibetan symbol. It can be clearly seen in an aerial view of his home. “It doesn’t represent…
An Orange County, California man who created “kill lists” of prominent Jews was sentenced to more than two years in jail after pleading guilty to threatening two churches and a synagogue. Nicholas Rose, 28, was arrested last year after his parents told police their son wanted to “get a gun and kill some Jews,” the…
Two women in California said they were kicked out of their Uber after their driver discovered they were coming from a pro-Israel festival, the Jewish Journal reported. The women, who were identified in the article by pseudonyms, said they had ordered the Uber to pick them up on May 19 from the Celebrate Israel Festival,…
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