After a spike in bias incidents since the election of Donald Trump, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Sunday that he would be ordering the state police to create a special unit to investigate hate crimes, according to a report in DNAInfo. “Today I’m directing [state agencies] to put together a special team of…
— Kosovo police said they prevented coordinated attacks by the Islamic State, including on the Israeli national soccer team. The police announced thwarted attacks in the Balkan nation as well as in neighboring Albania on the Israelis, The Associated Press reported. According to a statement, police said they uncovered plans by the Islamic State, or…
Jim Kenney, the mayor of Philadelphia, has released a statement thoroughly condemning the tattoo of a Nazi-style eagle displayed on the forearm of a Philadelphia policeman. “I find it incredibly offensive, and I know many others do as well,” Kenney said in a statement. “This image is particularly offensive to our WWII veterans who fought…
Women of the Wall, the group agitating for women’s prayer rights at the Western Wall, said it feared a violent encounter with ultra-Orthodox protesters at its upcoming regular monthly prayer service after it was told that the group’s protection falls not to the police but to the ushers who help administer the site. WOW founder…
JERUSALEM — An Israeli Jewish man bought a Palestinian girl a new bicycle after border guards took and broke hers. Sami Jolles donated the pink bike Wednesday, according to The Times of Israel. He told the news website the girl’s experience reminded him of when anti-Semites attacked his father in 1920s Europe and threw his bike in the river. “I…
— Jewish organizations are voicing anguish over the violence in Dallas that claimed the lives of five police officers during a peaceful demonstration protesting the recent shooting deaths of two unarmed black men by police in Minnesota and Louisiana. Officials say the police officers were killed by sniper fire during a protest Thursday evening. One suspect, who died during…
More than one year after Freddie Gray died in police custody here in Baltimore, within walking distance of my home, I still remember the palpable anxiety and anticipation of those days in April 2015. Protests, mostly peaceful, were a daily feature and curfew a nightly one. The national guard was deployed; I took a photo…
An unknown assailant attacked Rabbi Alvin Kass, the respected chief chaplain of the New York City Police Department, yesterday while the rabbi was on his morning power walk along Riverside Boulevard. Though the attacker knocked him to the ground, Kass, who is in his eighties, suffered no serious injuries. The Post has reported that Kass…
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