(JTA) — A representative from WhatsApp, the popular messaging platform, says that viral messages spread on the app warning about potential cyberattacks targeting Jews are a hoax.
The warnings appear to have begun circulating since Saturday on multiple...
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA
• Published October 5, 2023
(JTA) — Variety magazine is holding a star-studded Hollywood summit focused on addressing antisemitism through “inclusive storytelling, thought leadership, and advocacy.”
Actor, producer and SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher will deliver...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published October 4, 2023
Born just two months after the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, Sami Steigmann's family lived in Romania. By 1941, the 2-year-old Steigmann was living in a labor camp in Ukraine, where he was subjected to cruel Nazi medical experiments. At one point, Steigmann...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Biden administration is aiming to counter antisemitism and discrimination in federally-funded transit systems, housing, food programs and other areas — one of the most major actions the White House has taken since it unveiled...
Aviya Kushner, The Forward
• Published September 27, 2023
It was nothing less than astonishing to see Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, issue a statement condemning both antisemitism and Henry Ford’s part in perpetuating it.
“We must look to the lessons of history,” Walker...
Meghan Garrity, George Mason University and Melissa J. Wilde, University of Pennsylvania
• Published September 26, 2023
Each September marks the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s Nuremberg Laws, whose passage in 1935 stripped Jews of their German citizenship and banned “race-mixing” between Jews and other Germans.
Eighty-eight years later, the United States is facing...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 20, 2023
Dozens of members of the St. Louis Jewish community were on hand in Jefferson City Wednesday as Missouri adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism and recognized September as Jewish American...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 20, 2023
Though it has always existed, antisemitism has grown in recent years, moving from the fringe and obscure to the mainstream. Just this morning, two days after Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported how nearly 1 in 3 Jewish college students...
(JTA) — Germany has banned a neo-Nazi group after raiding the homes of its leaders across the country, in a move the government said “sends a clear signal against racism and antisemitism.”
The Hammerskins, a local spinoff of a group founded in...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published September 18, 2023
When Dr. Ryan Fields straps on his helmet, climbs on his bike and clips into his pedals for this weekend’s Pedal the Cause 2023, he will be among hundreds of riders pushing the limits of their endurance to raise money to fund cancer research. But, when...
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA
• Published September 18, 2023
(JTA) — Former U.S. president Donald Trump launched his latest broadside against liberal Jews — while wishing them a happy Rosh Hashanah.
“Just a quick reminder for liberal Jews who voted to destroy America & Israel because you believed false...
