The “fear itself” thing? FDR was on to something.
The rash of JCC bomb threats and cemetery desecrations, combined with a general sense that the country is becoming more intolerant, …
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Commentary by Andrew Silow-Caroll, JTA
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3/10/17
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Israel’s Knesset last week passed landmark legislation against the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, representing just one of several setbacks this month for BDS …
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By Adam Abrams, JNS.org
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3/15/17
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PARIS (JTA) — European rabbis have condemned an E.U. court’s ruling allowing firms to prohibit employees’ religious clothes and symbols, saying the ruling amounts to saying that …
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JTA
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3/15/17
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Diplomats never pretend to be experts on acting, yet for some reason actors constantly present themselves as experts on international affairs. Hollywood award ceremonies are now dominated by awardees …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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3/15/17
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A “Beware of Jews” sign was found affixed to a light post in a London neighborhood.
The triangular-shaped sign with a red border that mimics an official road sign indicating a hazard, …
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By JTA
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3/15/17
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President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint meeting of Congress is getting rave reviews for the subdued, "presidential" style of his delivery, and positive feedback …
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Analysis by Ron Kampeas, JTA
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3/1/17
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Growing up in a small town in Georgia, Harriet Shirley may have had more exposure to Jews and anti-Semitism than the rest of her fellow Christians. She had Jewish acquaintances, read Holocaust …
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By Ben Sales, JTA
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3/1/17
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The weeks-long wave of bomb threats targeting Jewish Community Centers in several states reached Long Island on Monday, with a threat being phoned in to the Mid-Island Y JCC in Plainview. As was the …
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Combined Sources
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3/1/17
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In his magnum opus “A Lethal Obsession,” the late Robert Wistrich, one of Israel’s finest scholars of the murderous pathways of Jew-hatred, elegantly summarized the character of …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/1/17
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Sometime between the afternoon of Friday, Feb. 17, and the following Monday morning, vandals damaged 170 gravestones at the Chesed Shel Emeth Jewish cemetery outside St. Louis.
Beyond that, …
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By Ben Sales, JTA
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3/1/17
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