By Jennifer A. Stern, The Forward
• Published March 7, 2023
Was the famous English Victorian novelist Charles Dickens (1812-70) a friend of the Jews?
In 1912, the London-based journalist and editor Morris Meyer wrote a series of articles about Dickens. This was published in the intellectually leaning New York...
By Beth Harpaz, The Forward
• Published March 5, 2023
Creator of the Dilbert comic strip, Scott Adams wrote in a now-deleted blog post from 2006 that he wanted “to know how the Holocaust death total of 6 million was determined.”
“Is it the sort of number that is so well documented with actual names...
Asaf Elia-Shalev, JTA
• Published February 28, 2023
(JTA) — When a pair of professors earlier this month published a paper accusing a group of Wikipedia editors from Poland of revising articles to distort the history of the Holocaust, their research went viral.
Most academic articles are seen by dozens...
By Adam Kovac, The Forward
• Published February 26, 2023
Jewish communities across the country breathed a sigh of relief as what was billed as a planned “Day of Hate” passed by uneventfully.
Day of Hate
In recent days, conversations on white supremacist channels on social media apps...
(JTA) – The police bulletins have circulated among Jews on social media, in WhatsApp chats and via email: A white supremacist group is calling for a “National Day of Hate” this Saturday and encouraging antisemites to vandalize and deface Jewish...
By Beth Harpaz, The Forward
• Published February 23, 2023
Sammy Davis Jr. was a short and skinny Black man with one eye. His wife was white, his mother was Puerto Rican and he was a convert to Judaism. In the crass and racist world of mid-20th century comedy, he was a walking punchline, even in his own routines.
“When...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published February 23, 2023
A first-time visit to the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum can be a moving experience, especially for a 13-year-old.
“It was eye-opening,” said Pranav Matthew.
“Sorrowful,” said Gergo Szilagyi.
“It made me think. . . why would somebody...
(JTA) – A Catholic high school in Miami forfeited its semifinal game in a state soccer tournament over the weekend, days after players fought in an on-field brawl with a Jewish school’s team.
The Catholic school, however, did not offer additional...
Philissa Cramer, JTA
• Published February 22, 2023
(JTA) — Members of a neo-Nazi group rallied Tuesday night outside the Broadway theater that is hosting “Parade,” a play about the 1915 lynching of a Jewish man in Georgia.
“It was definitely very ugly and scary, but [also] a wonderful reminder...
(JNS) One of history’s great literary revisionism discussions ensues when Moses and God converse after the Golden Calf fiasco. If God does not forgive the Israelites, “Erase me, now, from the book You wrote,” Moses says. In Exodus 32:34, God answers,...
(JTA) – A high school championship soccer game between a Miami Jewish day school and a local Catholic school ended with an ugly on-field brawl and at least one injury, along with reports of the Catholic students possibly having uttered antisemitic slurs.
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Here are some facts. On Yom Kippur, a former University of Arizona graduate student named Murad Dervish stormed into the...
