In a new podcast, blacklisted filmmakers make a movie — and an FBI agent lets them
Jon Hamm plays a G-man spying on the production of 1954’s ‘Salt of the Earth’ in Audible’s ‘The Big Lie’
Jon Hamm plays a G-man spying on the production of 1954’s ‘Salt of the Earth’ in Audible’s ‘The Big Lie’
In the first hours of 2020, I called the NYPD to confirm that a Jewish 15 year-old had been held up at knifepoint on a public bus. “Wow. There’s a lot of this stuff happening. What the hell,” was the officer’s response. He confirmed the incident, and told me I had missed another: in South…
An FBI report revealing a continued increase in antisemitic hate crimes in 2019 undercounts the problem, groups that track those crimes said on Monday. According to the report, antisemitic hate crimes jumped 14% in 2019, a year that saw a shooting in a synagogue in Poway, Calif., and another in a kosher supermarket in Jersey…
The FBI has apologized for a tweet Wednesday that published a copy of the Protocols of Learned Elders of Zion. Earlier today FOIA materials were posted to the FBI’s Vault and FOIA Twitter account via an automated process without further outlining the context of the documents. We regret that this release may have inadvertently caused…
The Anti-Defamation League has hired a longtime FBI official as its new vice president of Law Enforcement and Analysis. Greg Ehrie, who served 22 years with the FBI, is organizing partnerships with law enforcement offices across the U.S. He spent a year in Israel for the FBI and led the FBI’s Newark office last December…
The FBI arrested two Queens men Wednesday, both of whom purchased illegal firearms and one of whom published anti-Semitic social media posts. The two men, Joseph Miner, 29, and Daniel Jou, 40, bought weapons from an undercover FBI agent in Queens. Miner had previously written posts praising Hitler and last year’s Monsey stabbing on Instagram….
Hate crimes, including anti-Semitic ones, were more violent in 2018, with assaults targeting Jews at an all-time high, according to the FBI’s annual hate crime report, released Tuesday. In general, assaults and other violent attacks based on bias reached a 16-year high, although the total number of bias-motivated incidents — a broader category that includes…
Jewish Americans were once again the religious group most targeted by religiously-motivated bias crimes, the Federal Bureau of Investigation disclosed Tuesday. In its annual Hate Crime Statistics Act report, the FBI found a slight decrease in the number of hate crimes overall, as well as a similarly small decline in crimes motivated by religious bias….
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