A grotesque cartoon and two views of contemporary antisemitism
Rochester's Jewish federation connected an offensive cartoon to a local ceasefire resolution. A Jewish council member pushed back
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Fliers Found In Office On University Of Rochester Campus
(JTA) — Anti-Semitic fliers were discovered in an office on the campus of the University of Rochester. The fliers were found on Monday morning on a printer at the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at the university‘s River Campus, the local ABC affiliate 13WHAM reported. “Anti-Semitic messages were faxed to…
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Community The Show Must Go On: How One JCC Made The Most Of A Bomb Threat
“The show must go on” has become almost a trite expression, but a recent experience at the Rochester JCC breathed new life into the once tired phrase. A recent outbreak of bomb threats, made with the intent to cause fear, has hit Jewish Community Centers. Even after two such incidents, a JCC in Rochester, New…
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Fast Forward Rochester JCC Evacuated Over Bomb Threat
(JTA) — The Jewish Community Center in Rochester, New York was evacuated early Tuesday morning due to a bomb threat. The evacuation of members and staff was ordered shortly before 6 a.m., the local ABC affiliate 13WHAM reported. Police reportedly were on the scene. The bomb threat comes less than a week after at least…
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Fast Forward Muslims Hasten To Right Toppled Jewish Headstones In Rochester
Soon after a Jewish cemetery was found vandalized in Rochester, New York in the third such incident in two weeks, local Muslims were on the scene helping clean up the damage, in another sign of an interfaith alliance that’s been forged between two communities both targeted by a spike in hate crimes. Police have been…
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News UPDATE: Rochester Police Call Toppled Headstones A Hate Crime After Early Doubt
Police in Rochester, New York, are investigating the toppling of 21 headstones in the Waad Hakolel Jewish cemetery as a hate crime, said Meredith Dragon, head of the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester. “The Rochester police are treating this as an anti-Semitic incident,” Dragon told the Forward on Friday. She also said that she believed…
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Breaking News Jewish Cemetery Vandalized In Rochester — Third Desecration In 2 Weeks
NEW YORK (JTA) — A Jewish cemetery in Rochester, New York, was vandalized, the third such incident in the United States in less than two weeks. Five headstones were found toppled Thursday morning at the Waad Hakolel Cemetery, also known as the Stone Road Cemetery, in the city in western New York, according to News 10 NBC…
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Breaking News Bodies and Wreckage Found in Crash of Rochester Developer Larry Glazer’s Plane
Authorities have found wreckage from a private aircraft and the remains of two Americans three months after the plane triggered security alerts as it veered far off its course to Florida before crashing off Jamaica, officials said on Wednesday. Jamaica’s civil aviation officials said the bodies of the two people, believed to be New York…
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