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Antisemitism

Feb 13, 2022; Inglewood, CA, USA; Rapper/recording artist Kanye West during the Cincinnati Bengals game against the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium.

Kanye’s Jewish ex-business partner alleges more antisemitic remarks

By Beth Harpaz, The ForwardPublished June 28, 2023

“You’re exactly like the other Jews!” That’s what Kanye West’s ex-business partner Alex Klein said the rapper told him after he parted ways with West. The remark and others like it were described in The Trouble with KanYe, airing Wednesday...

From left to right: Felix Klein, Germany's antisemitism monitor; Bianca Loy, co-author of the RIAS report; and Benjamin Steinitz, executive director of RIAS, shown in Berlin with the organization's 2022 antisemitism report, June 27, 2023. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Violent antisemitism on the rise in Germany, watchdog finds

Published June 28, 2023

BERLIN (JTA) — Violent antisemitism is on the rise in Germany, according to a report released today by a Berlin-based watchdog organization with branches around the country. According to the report on “Antisemitic Incidents in Germany 2022” from...

On Shabbat afternoon, as people were arriving for afternoon services at Chabad-Lubavitch of Cobb County, in Marietta. Ga., they were confronted by 12 members of an antisemitic hate group brandishing antisemitic posters and swastika flags outside the synagogue.
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Wave of good sparked by Neo-Nazi hate at Georgia synagogue

By Faygie Levy Holt and Yaakov Ort, Chabad.org/newsPublished June 26, 2023

Demonstrations by a small group of neo-Nazis outside Georgia synagogues on Shabbat have unleashed a torrent of outrage, good deeds, and support around the state and nation in response. On Shabbat afternoon, as people were arriving for afternoon services...

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Moms For Liberty chapter apologizes for quoting Hitler in its newsletter

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished June 23, 2023

(JTA) – An Indiana chapter of Moms For Liberty, a group that has advocated for book bans in school districts across the country, apologized for quoting Adolf Hitler in a newsletter this week. The group’s chapter in Hamilton County, north of Indianapolis,...

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones lights the shamash candle

Celebrate, expand Judaism as means of fighting antisemitism

By Rabbi Yosef Landa, Special To The Jewish LightPublished June 21, 2023

Despite significant progress in fighting antisemitism over the past decades, recent years have borne witness to an alarming increase in antisemitic incidents.  Jews around the world and across the United States have been targeted by acts of violence,...

A screenshot from a video on "woke-ism"

Major Jewish groups leave Combat Antisemitism Movement after video blaming ‘woke-ism’ for antisemitism

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished June 21, 2023

(JTA) — Two major U.S. Jewish groups have exited a coalition called the Combat Antisemitism Movement after it published a video blaming the recent rise in antisemitism on “woke ideology.” Combat Antisemitism, which presents itself as a broad-based,...

Mourners visit the memorial outside the Tree of Life Synagogue, Oct. 31, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, four days after 11 Jewish worshippers were killed during services there. The alleged shooter's trial begins April 24, 2023. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Jury finds Pittsburgh synagogue shooter guilty on all counts

Jackie Hajdenberg, JTAPublished June 16, 2023

PITTSBURGH (JTA) — The gunman who committed the worst antisemitic attack in U.S. history is guilty of all 63 charges he faced, according to the verdict delivered by a federal jury on Friday morning. The verdict includes the determination that Robert...

Adam Miller is the senior rabbi of Temple Shalom in Naples.

‘You’re on the path to sin’: A Florida rabbi faced antisemitic harassment after speaking up at a school board vote

Published June 15, 2023

(JTA) — Rabbi Adam Miller was exiting a school board meeting in his city of Naples, Florida, when two men approached him in the parking lot. “Your prophet is not real, and Judaism is not a real religion,” they yelled at him, according to the...

Jan 6, 2019; Beverly Hills, CA, USA; Debra Messing arrives during the 76th Golden Globe Awards in the International Ballroom at the Beverly Hilton.

Debra Messing shares harrowing antisemitic incident from her childhood

By Lior Zaltzman, KvellerPublished June 15, 2023

At an event in New York City organized by Israeli actress, writer and activist Noa Tishby and politician Andrew Yang, Jewish actress Debra Messing opened up about experiencing antisemitism as a child. The story she shared was so harrowing that many of...

Clayton 3rd grader Sasha Growe.

Clayton third grader sparks ripple effect against antisemitism after ‘blue square’ presentation

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished June 8, 2023

On March 27, Season 23 of "The Voice" officially kicked off its "battle rounds" shows,  when each celebrity coach begins to whittle down their teams. But what many watching also saw was the presence of a small blue square on their TV screen. At the first...

A SWAT team found a man dead on a roof in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood on June 2, 2023.

SWAT finds Chicago man dead on roof with flamethrower, swastika flag

Published June 7, 2023

After a 12-hour standoff, a SWAT team found a man dead on a roof on June 2 in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood. The gunshot to the head was ruled a suicide. As the man engaged with police, he reportedly shouted threats and obscenities, which he...

Roger Waters seen performing in Berlin in 2013. His onstage costume resembling a Nazi officer has come under scrutiny.

US State Department calls recent Roger Waters concert ‘antisemitic’

Gabe Friedman, JTAPublished June 7, 2023

(JTA) — The U.S. State Department has condemned Roger Waters, calling the former Pink Floyd frontman’s recent concert in Berlin “antisemitic.” A reporter asked at a press briefing on Monday whether the department agreed with recent comments...

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