Asaf Elia-Shalev, Ron Kampeas, JTA
• Published October 30, 2024
When Jonathan Greenblatt used his platform as the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League on Monday to condemn a certain act of bigotry, his longtime predecessor atop the ADL, Abe Foxman, took notice — not just of what Greenblatt said but also of what he...
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Donald Trump told his chief of staff John Kelly that “Hitler did some good things,” including rebuilding the German...
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA
• Published October 15, 2024
The U.S. Department of Transportation has ordered Lufthansa to pay a $4 million Lufthansa discrimination fine for denying boarding to 128 Jewish passengers in 2022.
The incident, which occurred in May 2022, affected passengers wearing traditionally...
Shari Redstone, the controlling shareholder of CBS parent company Paramount Global and daughter of the late Jewish billionaire Sumner Redstone, backed reporter Tony Dokoupil over his handling of a controversial interview with author Ta-Nehisi Coates about...
The most prominent pro-Palestinian student group at Columbia University walked back an apology it had issued for a student who said “Zionists don’t deserve to live.”
The statement on Tuesday from Columbia University Apartheid Divest also included...
Robert Gudmestad, Colorado State University
• Published October 7, 2024
Hank Greenberg might be the best baseball player you’ve never heard of.
Greenberg was the first baseman for the Detroit Tigers during the 1930s and 1940s. His career was relatively short – 13 years – and interrupted by two stints of service...
The Minneapolis Police Department on Friday arrested a 21-year-old man for making “terroristic threats” against a local synagogue on Rosh Hashanah, three weeks after the man allegedly threatened to “shoot up” the synagogue.
Jaden LeBlanc’s...
Benyamin Cohen, The Forward
• Published October 6, 2024
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There have been more than 10,000 antisemitic incidents in the U.S. since Oct 7, the highest number ever recorded by the...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published October 5, 2024
On Saturday, Oct. 5, a group of about a dozen masked men gathered on an overpass in Town and Country, displaying Nazi symbols. Dressed in black and carrying flags emblazoned with swastikas and other white supremacist imagery, they held banners over Highway...
WASHINGTON — Laura Loomer, the far-right Jewish activist who has grown close to Donald Trump, portrays herself as a courageous voice willing to speak out against those who wish harm to the Jewish people.
She has also, in recent years, been embraced...
(JTA) — Mike Lindell, the outspoken CEO of MyPillow claims he was unaware that the number $14.88, advertised as the price for one of his pillow products, is a neo-Nazi symbol, sparking controversy and backlash online.
Mike Lindell responds to 14.88...
(JTA) — CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s Republican candidate for governor, is facing renewed criticism amid revelations that he once called himself a “Black NAZI” and a “perv” online.
Josh Stein, his Jewish Democratic...
