“Jojo Rabbit” sounds like a film that is difficult to pull off amid the state of rising anti-Semitism in 2019.
It’s a comedy set during the Holocaust about a 10-year-old German …
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By Emily Burack, JTA
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10/30/19
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In the aftermath of the shooting outside a synagogue in the German city of Halle, local authorities are rethinking their approach to securing the country’s Jewish communities.
Only the …
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA
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10/24/19
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On the night of June 2, a German politician by the name of Walter Lübcke was found lying dead in the garden of his home in Wolfhagen — a village on the outskirts of the city of Kassel …
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By Ben Cohen
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10/24/19
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More than eight in 10 American Jews say that anti-Semitism has spiked in recent years and even more believe it is a problem in the United States, according to an American Jewish …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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10/24/19
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Here’s the sad paradox of the shooting nearly one year ago at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue: The killing of 11 worshippers. …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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10/10/19
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As visitors to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem wind their way through the main exhibition, they are confronted by a series of unsettling photographs from the first decade of Nazi …
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By Ben Cohen
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10/10/19
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The number of hate crimes against Jews in New York City has risen significantly over the first nine months of this year, part of a citywide increase in such offenses.
The New …
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By Ben Sales, JTA
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10/10/19
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Was only eight years ago that supporters of Israel were trembling at the possibility that support for the Jewish state would soon be washed away by a “diplomatic tsunami” that would …
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By Jonathan Tobin
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10/10/19
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As this city’s Jewish community celebrated Rosh Hashana this week, the Tree of Life synagogue stood closed, its doors blocked by a chain-link fence.
A brown, wilted wreath …
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By Ben Sales, JTA
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10/3/19
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“Jew down” seems to be making a comeback — or maybe it never left the lexicon.
In April, a City Council member uttered the term at a meeting in Jeffersonville, …
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By Marcy Oster, JTA
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9/26/19
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