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Antisemitism

Candace Owens, conservative political commentator, speaks on stage during "Turning Point's The Peoples Convention" on June 14, 2024 at Huntington Place in Detroit, Michigan. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images)

Candace Owens accuses rabbi of bribing pastors to criticize her

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished June 27, 2025

(JTA) — Ohr Torah Stone, the Israel-based Modern Orthodox educational organization, rejected claims made by far-right pundit Candace Owens Thursday that the group’s founding rabbi had sought to bribe Christian pastors to criticize her in their sermons. Owens,...

Isaac Dechtman of Denver and his parents Evan and Jennifer comfort each other at the Boulder County Courthouse on Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado, on June 3, 2025, two days after 12 people marching to raise awareness for Israeli hostages in Gaza were injured in a "targeted act of violence" by a man wielding incendiary devices. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

Suspect in Boulder fire bombing of Jews charged with 12 hate crimes

JNS StaffPublished June 26, 2025

(JNS) -- The Boulder firebombing Jewish hate crimes case intensified this week as a Colorado man was charged with 12 federal hate crimes for targeting Jewish homes and businesses. The Department of Justice said the suspect threw Molotov cocktails and...

From Left: Géraldine Woessner, editor-in-chief of the French news magazine Le Point, Washington University Chancellor Andrew D. Martin and 
M. Luis Vassy, president of Sciences Po.

What WashU learned in Paris about fighting antisemitism

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished June 19, 2025

When university leaders, students, scholars and policymakers gathered in Paris earlier this month, it wasn’t for ceremony—it was for strategy. The French-American Forum on Antisemitism, hosted by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and France’s...

A brick thrown through the window of the Butcherie in Brookline, Massachusetts, June 15, 2025. (Brookline Police Department handout)

Jewish patrons rally for kosher grocery hit with ‘free Palestine’ brick

JNS StaffPublished June 16, 2025

A crowd waving Israeli and American flags gathered outside The Butcherie, the Boston area’s only kosher grocery store, on Sunday afternoon to show solidarity after the Jewish-owned business was vandalized overnight. Located in Brookline, a suburb...

Prepared, not scared: New trainings give St. Louis Jews tools to stay safe

Prepared, not scared: New trainings give St. Louis Jews tools to stay safe

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished June 15, 2025

“In times of rising concern for safety and security, we must act. Not out of fear, but with purpose, preparation and unity.” That’s how Danny Cohn, president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, opened a recent message to the community...

Left: Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) speaks on Jan. 26, 2023 in Washington, D.C. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images); Right: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), speaks in Maryland on March 3, 2023. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rashida Tlaib vote ‘present’ on resolution to condemn antisemitic attacks

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished June 10, 2025

(JTA) — No one voted against a resolution condemning the rise of hate crimes against Jews when it came to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday evening. But two congresswomen declined to vote yes. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia...

Bomb squads set up a staging area following an incident involving multiple injuries that the FBI is investigating as an act of terror on June 1, 2025 in Boulder, Colorado. A suspect is in custody after reportedly throwing an incendiary device at a group participating in an organized walk near the courthouse to show solidarity with hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.  (Chet Strange/Getty Images)

FBI, DHS issue warning of ‘elevated threat’ to Jewish and Israeli communities

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished June 6, 2025

In the wake of two violent attacks on Jewish community events in recent weeks, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security have issued a public service announcement warning of an “elevated threat” to Jews and Israeli communities. In their announcement...

Lisa Turnquist of Louisville, Colorado, lays flowers and a flag at the site of the attack outside the Boulder County Courthouse on June 2, 2025 in Boulder. (Chet Strange/Getty Images)

Man charged with hate crime in Boulder firebombing wanted to ‘kill all Zionist people,’ FBI says

JTA StaffPublished June 3, 2025

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the man accused of firebombing people marching to raise awareness of Israeli hostages in Gaza, had planned the attack for over a year, local and federal authorities said on Monday as they charged him with attempted murder and a...

Dictionary definition of antisemitism.

Antisemitic graffiti found in O’Fallon, Mo., hours before Colorado firebombing

By Kevin Deutsch Special to the Jewish LightPublished June 2, 2025

Antisemitic graffiti was scrawled inside an unoccupied home in O'Fallon, Mo. over the weekend, police said. The Jewish Federation of St. Louis said the graffiti was found at a home construction site and “included swastikas and offensive anti-Jewish...

The campus of Washington University in St. Louis.

WashU stepping up on world stage as antisemitism surges

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished June 2, 2025

Washington University Chancellor Andrew D. Martin will represent the United States at the AJC-CRIF Forum on Antisemitism in Paris on June 5, joining global academic leaders to address rising antisemitism on college campuses. The forum—organized by the...

Police work at the scene after an attack that injured multiple people in Boulder, Colorado, U.S. June 1, 2025 in a still image from video. ABC AFFILIATE KMGH via REUTERS

Firebombed for marching: Jewish seniors attacked, burned in Colorado

JNS StaffPublished June 1, 2025

(JTA) — Multiple people were burned and injured in Boulder, Colorado, in what the local Jewish community said was a firebombing attack on people who had gathered to draw attention to the Israeli hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza. Miri Kornfeld,...

Rep. Elise Stefanik testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on her nomination to be Ambassador to the United Nations on Jan. 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Trump ally targets Truman scholar for being ‘pro-Hamas’

Grace Gilson, JTAPublished May 30, 2025

(JTA) — A Trump-aligned congresswoman is calling on a federally funded scholarship to revoke its award to a Harvard student accused of antisemitism and pro-Hamas activism. Rep. Elise Stefanik, recently appointed to the board of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship...

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