By Vera Kessler
Rebbetzin Chaya Rivka Zwolinsky is the leading teacher of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov's wisdom for women in North America.
By Vera Kessler
Rebbetzin Sarah Korn is the co-director of Chabad House Bowery. She runs a student center for downtown Manhattan universities.
“To suggest there is not a need to combat anti-Semitism is not only offensive, but it’s also simply ignorant,” said Rabbi Shlomo Litvin, chairman of the Kentucky Jewish Council and director of Chabad of the Bluegrass, after Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) was the only member of Congress to oppose the resolution.
It was exposed that European funding was sent to leftwing organizations to demonize Israeli citizens.
American Jewish concerns such as rising anti-Semitism are in fact shared concerns for the Jewish communities on both sides of the Atlantic and around the world.
Every Saturday morning for 18 years, protesters have gathered outside Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor, Mich., as congregants arrived for services carrying signs such as “Israel: No right to exist,” “Jewish power corrupts” and “Israel attacked America 9/11/2001.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
On the positive side, nine “adoptions and endorsements” of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)’s working definition of anti-Semitism were recorded.
Some 32 percent of parents say their children have been the target of anti-Semitic insults, with 18 percent say their children have been physically attacked in 2021.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
According to the U.S. State Department's Population, Refugees, and Migrations Bureau, the funds will "provide education, health care, and emergency relief to hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children and families during a time of need."
“Glad you woke up, guys, and welcome to the club.”
Noah Shack, vice president at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, urged the Toronto District School Board to take “immediate, meaningful and reparative action to fix the rot of anti-Semitism, particularly with its Human Rights Office.”
“This coordinated attack on Billie Eilish is another example of how social media is used nefariously to manipulate public opinion and to attack and harass any artist, entertainer, or influencer that says anything positive about Israel.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The translation rights to my new novel are still available; if I can find a way to sell these rights that is compliant with the BDS movement’s institutional boycott guidelines, I will be proud to do so,” she said.
By Sean Savage
“Despite its seemingly innocuous name, this legislation is just another assault on Israel from the fringe left. The American people are pro-Israel, and as a result, this legislation is destined to fail,” chairwoman of the CUFI Action Fund Sandra Parker told JNS.
By Israel Hayom
The new law defines anti-Semitism as hatred of Jews, including attacks, false or hateful statements and denying the mass extermination of Ukrainian Jewry during the Holocaust.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Long Island community joined area municipalities that have also decided to actively confront the issue.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Data gathered by the Executive Council of Australian Jewry showed that the number of anti-Semitic abuses reported this year has already matched the total number of incidents from 2020.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
South Korea is the first country in Asia to endorse the official definition, reported Akiva Tor, Israel’s Ambassador to the Republic of Korea.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“The anti-Semites weren’t only in the Budapest ghetto,” said Lapid, referring to the place his father and grandmother hid during the Holocaust. He said there were also slave traders—the Hutu who massacred Tutsis in Rwanda, Muslim fanatics and those “who beat LGBTQ people to death.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Erdogan has been spewing anti-Semitism for years as he aligned himself with Hamas.
“The lack of boundaries, combined with the growing success of this platform, makes it an ideal virtual home for hate speech and extremist content,” it concluded.
“No matter what your views on Israel, using Nazi imagery to describe it is not only inaccurate and offensive, but deeply anti-Semitic,” said Scott Richman, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League NY/NJ.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Legal counsel for the company said the message was in the game’s waiting area, where players decide which battle arena they want to join.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Biden said that Attorney General Merrick Garland and the U.S. Department of Justice will be using the “all of the tools at its disposal to combat hate crimes.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Haider Anjam, 20, and Ashan Azad, 19, were taken into custody on charges of harassment and aggravated harassment as a hate crime.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The white stickers, which say “We are everywhere” and include the Nazi symbol in the middle, were first discovered at a bar called “Mad Myrna’s,” and later in the day, at the Jewish museum.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Several Jewish organizations have reported receiving anti-Semitic and anti-Israel related messages via their social media pages.
By JoeSettler
Didn't Progressive Jews explain often enough that it's OK to hate Israel, and that doesn't make one an anti-Semite?
By Aaron Bandler / Jewish Journal
International human rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky accused Omar of being “a shill for Hamas.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
One child claimed in a deposition that she felt “under attack” and was thankful when her family moved away.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Progressives don't like the IHRA definition because it correctly equates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.
Avoiding this designation was Norway, which has a comprehensive national plan to combat the scourge, as well as sufficient funds for security measures to protect the Jewish community.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Yoseph Haddad, an Israeli-Arab social activist, attacked the representatives who claimed Israel’s program was racist because it allegedly was meant for Jews only.
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been used by anti-Semites to spread conspiracy theories against Jews around the world and against the State of Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jack Dorsey has been quick to edit “misinformation” when it comes to politics, the coronavirus pandemic or other issues of consequence, but not when it comes to anti-Semitism, says End Jew Hatred.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
While they “respect the original creation of the IHRA Working Definition as an illustrative tool, and as part of a larger and ongoing conversation about the nature of anti-Semitism,” they expressed “concern with its adoption as a legal tool.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The language condemns the Jewish state for “repressive measures” against Syrian citizens in the Golan Heights and renews the mandates of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It appears that candidate Raphael Warnock still has a lot more to walk back, as new anti-Israel video surfaces.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The possibility of doing so caused some pushback from some State Department officials, lawmakers and the Anti-Defamation League.
Which Warnock are we supposed to believe? The one who made horrible anti-Israel statements and accusations before he was a front-runner candidate for US Senate, or the ones he made after he was exposed?
By Eliana Rudee
Human-rights investigative journalist Edwin Black calls it one of the most “insidious Jewish organizations” out there, attacking Jewish communal structures from within.
Facebook and TikTok, however, each sent a senior representative in the same week that Facebook also banned Holocaust denial on its platform.
There are good reasons to worry about a spike in infections in haredi enclaves, but the double standards used to justify new lockdowns undermine faith in government.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Halie Soifer of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, sought to dispel the notion that they were objecting to the substance, saying “the measure was manipulated using anti-Semitism for political purposes.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Koral Zaarur said the measure was in response to posters of Adolf Hitler and swastikas on campus, though it “turned into so much more.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jacob Blake Sr., father of 29-year-old Jacob Blake, appears to show a history of racist and anti-Semitic views.
The irony of Al Sharpton, who has a history of hate speech against Jews, calling out media giants for the same thing was not lost on Jewish organizations.
Someone at Twitter clearly has some comprehension issues.
Pakistan’s courts have just shown that murderous anti-Semitism is acceptable in mainstream Pakistani law and society,” said CAMERA communications director Jonah Cohen.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center and Americans Against Anti-Semitism slammed the outlet for considering someone as divisive as Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, known for anti-Semitic and hate speech.
By Israel Hayom
New research highlights links between the “human rights groups” pushing for investigations against Israel and the U.S., and their links to the PFLP terrorist group.
The Mayor committed to talk with his team to discuss whether or not taking down the tweet is the right thing to do.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Data can be filtered by state and keyword, and include criminal and non-criminal acts of anti-Jewish vandalism, harassment and assault.
"People are not sleeping, and they are having flashbacks to previous incidents of being attacked for “just being Jewish.”
The community had gathered to light Chanukah candles to be followed by a Chanukah party when the machete wielding terrorist attacked them.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The anti-Israel protesters hold weekly protests outside the Michigan synagogue.
Amnesty displays a symbiotic relationship with BDS and elements within Amnesty International actively seek to promote the destruction of the Jewish state.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Eligible recipients will each get $50,000 for cameras, security training, door-hardening and other security enhancements.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Detectives investigating a racially aggravated assault on a 54-year-old man in Stamford Hill have charged two boys ... a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old boy in connection with an incident in Amhurst Park on Friday, 29 November,” said Met Police in a statement.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
NGO Monitor dismissed the report as ”simply bizarre" and pointed out how it whitewashes terror.
Reports have emerged of intimidation and discrimination directed not only at Jewish students, but also at Jewish professors.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“Without remembrance, there cannot be truth; without truth, there cannot be justice; without justice, there cannot be reconciliation" . . . or peace."
The anti-Semitic motion caused further outrage as it became clear that a non-Jewish student who will also be on the trip to Israel and, like Wright, holds a role in the student union, was not threatened with sanctions.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Swastikas were written in red ink on a staircase, and the word “JEW” was etched onto a door.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The ADL has failed to call out any form of anti-Semitism that isn’t borne of white supremacy, and their curriculum is more about tolerance and racism in general than it is about the unique history of anti-Semitism,” said Bryan Leib, a board member of Americans Against Anti-Semitism.
The NYU department “is isolating students who support Israel by adopting and promoting a specific, one-sided narrative to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The habit of persecuting Jews is beginning to be reborn. Brothers and sisters: This is neither human nor Christian; the Jews are our brothers and sisters, and must not be persecuted! Understood?”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The teen was arrested and charged with two counts of aggravated harassment.
By Josh Hasten
“Even though the ECJ ruled against us , this is just the beginning of the fight. We are not going to accept a double standard,” said CEO of Psagot Winery Yaakov Berg.
There are over 200 ongoing territorial disputes worldwide, yet the ECJ has only offered a single ruling - related to the Jewish people.
International law expert Prof. Eugene Kontorovich added the ECJ’s ruling “is putting a new ‘Yellow Star’ on Jewish-made products."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“It’s all about naming and shaming,” says StopAntisemitsm.org’s national director Liora Rez.
The goal of BDS is to silence American Jews as a political force, and American Jews refuse to see what is happening to them while it is happening.
AOC also endorsed the anti-Israel progressive group IfNotNow, saying it is “amazing” and “organizing for justice.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Anti-Semitism is at a near-record high nationwide and it has been just half a year since two deadly synagogue shootings.
Rabbi Uriel Vigler was on his way to morning prayers.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"It’s striking that 3 days later editors choose to publish yet another image that caricatures and denigrates Israel’s prime minister and links the message to Judaism."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Tim Anderson, a a life-long radical and virulent hater of Jews, was placed under official investigation after he defended a former colleague for wearing a badge proclaiming “Death to Israel.”
When Ilhan Omar complains about the role of lobbyists in politics, it seems she only means certain lobbyists.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Anti-Semitism is spreading like poison.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“. . .material purchased using U.S. tax dollars to counter the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel bias injected by the PA is being rejected and not utilized on the ground."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The medical resident was fired for tweeting threats to give Jews the wrong medication.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The two unidentified men ripped her cellphone out of her hands and punched her in the face, asking “Are you afraid, you Jewess?”
Airbnb’s policy is the very definition of anti-Semitism.
By JNi.Media
"...we are dealing with a new level of anti-Semitic crime. It calls to mind the worst memories of the 1930s."
Trump takes the International Community to task.
By JNi.Media
Altogether, 2.2 billion Christians suffered harassment in 144 countries in 2016. 1.6 billion Muslims were harassed in 142 countries. 15 million Jews were harassed in 87 countries.
By JNi.Media
The man had been refused entry into Israel and sent back to SA on the next plane.
How much effort should be expended in quelling Jew-hatred?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Jews know what’s going on. We’ve heard the story too many times over the centuries; this is anti-Semitism.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The report evaluated the tweet based on subjects ranging from Holocaust denial and anti-Semitic slurs to positive references to anti-Semitic figures, books and podcasts.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Chief Rabbi Lau responded on Tuesday that the best way to battle anti-Semitism is to immigrate to Israel, but that all Jews in Germany and throughout the Diaspora must continue to wear the kippah and other Jewish symbols.
Corbyn has been accused of tolerating anti-Semitism in the Labour Party consistently since becoming chairman in 2015.
"The professor proposed he apply for a position at the Turkish defense ministry, but his CV was rejected because he is a Jew."
Lorde may soon discover that embracing BDS comes with a price tag.
Classical vs. modern Antisemitism with the role of Social Media examined.
We've spent the past few days deleting a lot of horribly anti-Semitic comments written by Polish commenters.
Restrictions on statements... regarding the Polish people's direct or indirect complicity with the crimes committed... during the Holocaust are a serious distortion.
By JNi.Media
The term "Polish death camp" was first used by Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski in a 1944 article that was titled "Polish Death Camp."
What has been learned from all the memorials if synagogues across Europe need round-the-clock protection?