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News Your guide to 2021 (virtual) Yom HaShoah commemorations
Despite a year of isolation and pandemic restrictions, Jewish communities around the country are finding ways to come together for Yom HaShoah, the annual commemoration to honor the more than six million Jews murdered by Nazis and Nazi collaborators during the Holocaust. From coast to coast, synagogues, cities, museums, Jewish community centers, and others are…
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Fast Forward ‘I Will Destroy You As A Race’: Milwaukee Synagogue Receives Threatening Call
A synagogue in suburban Milwaukee called police after receiving a threatening voicemail pledging to “destroy” them, local TV station WISN reported Tuesday. The call to The Shul Bayside, which came from a local area code, arrived at 2:30 in the morning on August 19. Some of the threats on the call reportedly included “You think…
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Fast Forward Roof of Milwaukee Jewish Day School Collapses One Week Before Classes Begin
(JTA) — The roof of the Milwaukee Jewish Day school collapsed, sending steel beams and debris crashing down into a classroom, a week before the start of school. Two staff members were in the classroom on Friday preparing for the start of school, but left when they heard creaking noises, according to local reports. Moments…
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Fast Forward Student’s Swastika Sign Riles Wisconsin College’s Pro-Israel Event
(JTA) — A man brought a swastika sign to an event celebrating Israel’s independence at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. About 250 students attended the daylong event held by the Students Supporting Israel campus group and the campus Hillel. Students confronted the man carrying the sign, who identified himself as Chris, the local ABC affiliate WISN…
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Fast Forward Milwaukee County GOP Tweet Mocks RBG And Sexual Assault Victims
The Milwaukee County Republican Party tweeted a meme based off a joke made last week by a Republican congressman about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg being groped, RawStory reported. The party posted on Monday a photo of Ginsburg with the caption, “Abraham Lincoln grabbed my ass in 1862.” It has since been deleted. The…
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Fast Forward Wisconsin Man Charged With Mailing Threats To Local JCC
(JTA) — A Wisconsin man was charged with mailing threats to a Jewish Community Center in the state. A federal grand jury returned an indictment against Chadwick Grubbs, 33, for mailing threats on three different days in May to the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. Grubbs already is…
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Fast Forward City Of Milwaukee Pulls Advertising From Breitbart
The tourism bureau for the city of Milwaukee announced Wednesday that it will pull advertising from Breitbart because of its connection to the neo-Nazi movement, according to HillReporter.com. The account of Visit Milwaukee, a tourism bureau that promotes events and attractions in Wisconsin’s biggest city, was receiving tweets condemning its choice to advertise on Breitbart’s…
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