At the end of August, the New York Police Department Hate Crimes Task Force investigated an alleged anti-Semitic attack near Brower Park in Crown Heights. Someone had allegedly thrown a block of ice …
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By Ben Sales, JTA
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9/19/19
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My entire life, my mother has told me to grow thicker skin — that I need to block out the nasty words and comments. If you react, she says, it only gives them more power. I recognize there is …
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By Sam Berndt
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9/19/19
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When Leilah Abelman moved to Long Island from San Diego to attend Hofstra University last year, she encountered anti-Semitism on the Hempstead campus, she wrote last week in a Hofstra Chronicle …
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The Jewish Star
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9/18/19
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For the Jewish community, the recent shootings in El Paso and Dayton dredged up feelings of insecurity as they still grapple with two deadly shootings at synagogues: one on the East Coast and one on …
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By Shiryn Ghermezian, JNS
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8/23/19
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How afraid should Jews be of being a victim of a violent anti-Semitic hate crime? In the wake of the Pittsburgh and Poway synagogue shootings, many American Jews remain afraid. The specter of …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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9/8/19
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As he talks about the recent string of attacks on Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, Yosef Rapaport points to a small scar above his right eye.
It’s the remnant of an anti-Semitic attack he …
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By Ben Sales
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9/8/19
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JTA’s editor in chief Andrew Silow-Carroll and opinion editor Laura E. Adkins share their thoughts on a July 27 New York Times article answering “some of the most difficult …
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By Andrew Silow-Carroll and Laura E. Adkins
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8/7/19
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Last month — or 16 years ago in Trump years — the White House disinvited a cartoonist named Ben Garrison to a meeting of right-wing media influencers. It had been pointed out that …
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By Andrew Silow-Carroll
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8/7/19
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The House of Representatives last week approved a nonbinding resolution that condemns the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel.
Much was made of the …
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Analysis by Ron Kampeas, JTA
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7/31/19
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One of my top priorities in Congress is to do everything that I can to strengthen the bonds between the United States and Israel, and to ensure that the United States never wavers in our support for …
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Ny Rep. Kathleen Rice
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7/24/19
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