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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The prime minister of Malaysia defended his past anti-Semitic statements and questioned the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust in a speech at Columbia …
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By Josefin Dolton, JTA
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9/26/19
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Late last month, a reporter for Bloomberg Law called the U.S. Department of Labor for comment about a recently hired staffer …
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By Ron Kampeas, JTA
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9/19/19
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The number of Israel-related, anti-Semitic incidents against Jewish students on campuses increased 70 percent from 2017 to 2018, according to a report published …
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9/19/19
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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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