Here are two responses to an incident of anti-Semitic vandalism — from a Jewish woman and a Muslim woman — in Birmingham, England. The first is from Karen E.H. Skinazi; the latter is from Salma Hamid. (JTA) — As my husband and I were taking our regular after-dinner walk, I stopped dead in my tracks….
A group of Jewish and Muslim women, including the city’s only female rabbi, have defiantly come together to remove antisemitic graffiti which appeared overnight on a wall in Billesley in Birmingham, transforming it into positive art depicting a rainbow. Determined to show they’re “stronger together,” the women joined forces after vile and abusive words of…
Like almost every New York City street, Brooklyn’s Albany Avenue is dotted with stores temporarily shuttered by coronavirus. But here in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood, among the shops whose glass windows are covered by rolling metal grates, one stands out. At House of Lancry, a modest fashion brand owned by British designer Hannah Lancry Sufrin,…
Local law enforcement are investigating after the Nashville Holocaust Memorial was vandalized Saturday afternoon with neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic messages. The memorial, set in a wooded area near the city’s Jewish Community Center was covered with a white sheet that bore messages like “1488,” a hate symbol used by neo-Nazis and white supremacists, and “Kikes Lie,…
A white, spray-painted swastika appearing above the word “Trump” was found on the Yale Law School campus over the weekend an an act referred to as “utterly antithetical” to the school’s values. The graffiti, which, the Yale Daily News reports, was covered by noon on Sunday with black paint and a doormat, appears to have…
(JTA) — A rock in the center of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville that students paint with inspirational messages was painted over with a message accusing Jews of being behind the 9-11 attack. The graffiti painted on The Rock on Wednesday night read, “Jews did 9-11. Google: Dancing Israelis.” The message that was painted over by…
(JTA) — After swastikas were painted on the walls of a San Francisco-area high school, the students took a stand. Days after the incident, hundreds of students came to Burlingame High School wearing red T-shirts or hoodies in red, a school color, to display “unity against hate.” They placed their painted handprints on banners reading…
(JTA) — Graffiti was painted on the exterior of a historic yeshiva on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The Mesivta Tiferes Yerushalayim building was vandalized between Friday afternoon and Saturday evening, possibly while students were inside. The graffiti included what looks like a clown face, the word “evil,” and a series of letters and numbers meant…
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