(JTA) — Flyers described as “anti-Semitic in nature” were posted on several Jewish institutions in Indianapolis. The flyers were discovered on Friday morning, according to local reports. The Indianapolis Jewish Community Relations Council said in a statement that the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department was notified of the incident and that it had opened an investigation….
An event promoting solidarity against hate at Indiana University was disrupted when a man heckled a rabbi leading the event, the Indiana Daily Student reported. Bloomington United’s Evening of Solidarity took place at the Monroe County Courthouse on Tuesday, where 200 people gathered against white supremacy. Rabbi Sue Silberberg, executive director of the Helene G….
(JTA) — A swastika was drawn on the wall of a dorm room at the University of Indianapolis shared by twin Israeli sisters. The swastika in faint red marker was discovered Monday night as Shira and Michal Sasson were moving into their room. The Israeli students starting their junior year are on the University of…
(JTA) — An Indiana man sympathetic to Nazism and white supremacy was sentenced to three years in prison for spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on the property of a suburban Indianapolis synagogue. Nolan Brewer, 21, of Eminence, was sentenced Monday for conspiring to violate the civil rights of Congregation Shaarey Tefilla. He pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime, the…
(JTA) — A City Council leader in Indiana has apologized for using the anti-Semitic phrase “Jewed them down” in a recent meeting. The incident happened at an April 15 meeting of the Jeffersonville City Council, in the southern part of the state. When a local fire department employee requested a new truck, the council’s vice…
Democrat Liz Watson trailed early in a tight race against a heavily favored Republican in a southern Indiana bellwether district. As first results trickled in from Indiana’s Ninth District, Watson, a liberal Jewish labor lawyer from Bloomington, trailed first-term Republican Trey Hollingsworth by about a 2-1 margin. But the first results were from Hollingsworth’s rural…
(JTA) — Police arrested two suspects in connection with the painting of a swastika on a synagogue in Indiana. U.S. Attorney Josh Minkler, the FBI and the Police Department of the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel announced on Thursday charges against 20-year-old Nolan Brewer and a co-conspirator who is in custody but was not named. The…
(JTA) — Billboards were erected in support of an Indiana synagogue that was targeted with anti-Semitic graffiti. The billboard’s message is “LOVE” with a Star of David inside the “O.” “We wanted to do something,” Chris Iverson, vice president and general manager of Lamar Advertising, told WISH-TV. “We just wanted to put a positive message…
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