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St. Louis Jewish Light

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Antisemitism

Trump campaign pushing back against Rumble placing its ads before Nazi videos

The Jewish News SyndicatePublished March 18, 2024

Rolling Stone magazine published a story on March 14 about campaign advertising for former President Donald Trump being featured before videos calling Adolf Hitler a hero. The ad appeared on Rumble—a video-streaming platform akin to YouTube with looser...

Unleash Your Pen: Bnai Brith is confronting antisemitism with new essay contest

Unleash Your Pen: B’nai Brith is confronting antisemitism with new essay contest

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished March 18, 2024

Since Oct. 7, The Jewish Light has published umpteen stories about college students having to confront the rising tide of antisemitism on college campuses. Now B'nai Brith is hoping some of those students are ready to address antisemitism...

Zachary Marschal

Meet Zachary Marschall, the Jewish conservative who leads the nation in campus antisemitism investigations

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished March 13, 2024

(JTA) — When the conservative website Campus Reform published what it said, in all-caps, was an “EXCLUSIVE” about a new federal antisemitism investigation at Arizona State University, it had the rare distinction of being able to cite the complaint...

The Neighbors ad depicts a church welcoming in a nearby synagogue after a bar mitzvah service was interrupted by a bomb threat. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Some Jews critical of ‘Oscars’ ad depicting bar mitzvah moving to a church

Published March 12, 2024

An ad purchased by the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism that ran during the Academy Awards on Sunday is drawing criticism for depicting a bar mitzvah celebrated in a church. “I’m sure they had decent intentions but this ad sends a poor message,”...

A screenshot of the handout the staff of Columbia High School in Maplewood, NJ received on March 11. Courtesy of Michael Goldberg

School district retracts email encouraging staff to teach about Ramadan in context of Israeli ‘genocide’ of Palestinians

By Camillo Barone, The ForwardPublished March 12, 2024

A New Jersey school district has apologized for an email to staff encouraging them to “contextualize” lessons about Ramadan by explaining how Israel prevents Palestinian Muslims from celebrating the holiday as it “enacts a genocide.”  It also...

Dictionary definition of antisemitism.

Why Jew-hatred has become trendy

Ami Friedman, (Israel Hayom via JNS)Published March 11, 2024

In the mid-1990s, when he was a young, uninhibited comedian, David Baddiel did something that he would come to regret years later. In a skit on the soccer comedy show “Fantasy Football League,” which he co-authored, Baddiel played Jason Lee, a black...

The Neighbors ad depicts a church welcoming in a nearby synagogue after a bar mitzvah service was interrupted by a bomb threat. (Screenshot from YouTube)

A synagogue bomb threat is dramatized in an Oscars ad by Robert Kraft’s Foundation to Combat Antisemitism

Jacob Gurvis, JTAPublished March 10, 2024

(JTA) — A real-life synagogue bomb threat of the type that plagued Jewish congregations for much of last year will be dramatized in an ad during Sunday’s Academy Awards, the most-watched non-football television broadcast in the United States. The...

A neo-Nazi speaker is blurred out and his microphone is cut off as he speaks during a city council meeting in Evanston, Illinois, Feb. 22, 2024. (Screenshot via YouTube)

White supremacists, seizing on Israel-Hamas war, have accelerated their antisemitism since Oct. 7

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished March 10, 2024

(JTA) – At a recent city council meeting in Evanston, Illinois, a man in dark sunglasses stepped up to the podium during the public comment period to accuse the Anti-Defamation League of stifling free speech. Wearing a hat with the logo of the neo-Nazi...

Jewish Federations of North America says TikTok is the ‘worst offender by far’ in driving antisemitism on social media

Jewish Federations of North America says TikTok is the ‘worst offender by far’ in driving antisemitism on social media

By Beth Harpaz, The ForwardPublished March 7, 2024

The Jewish Federations of North America asked a U.S. congressional committee to approve a bill that would allow the president to ban TikTok or force its China-based parent company to sell it. “Social media is a major driver of the rise in antisemitism,”...

Jared Kushner speaks at the ADLs annual summit at the Javits Center in New York City, March 6, 2024. (Luke Tress)

ADL chief defends honoring Jared Kushner, acknowledges blowback at annual summit

BY LUKE TRESS, JTAPublished March 6, 2024

(New York Jewish Week) — At the opening of its annual conference on fighting antisemitism, the (ADL) Anti-Defamation League’s CEO defended the decision to honor Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former senior adviser, Jared Kushner. Jonathan Greenblatt,...

Addir Mesika and Morielle Lotan (Courtesy)

A new competition will grant a $1 million prize for technology to fight antisemitism

Asaf Elia-Shalev, JTAPublished March 6, 2024

(JTA) — When Morielle Lotan learned that her nephew, Addir Mesika, had sacrificed his life to save others during Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, the consultant to climate tech startups and investors said she was nearly paralyzed with grief. “I...

Holocaust survivor Ben Stern (blue shirt) leads 200 marchers in the Bay Area Rally Against Hate in Berkeley in August 2017. He is linking arms with his daughter Charlene Stern and Rabbi Menachem Creditor; Rabbi Yonatan Cohen of Congregation Beth Israel in Berkeley is at far left. (Rob Gloster/J.)

Ben Stern, Holocaust survivor who stood up to neo-Nazis in Skokie, dies at 102

Alix Wall, JTAPublished March 5, 2024

(J. the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California via JTA) — Ben Stern, who survived two ghettos, nine concentration camps and two death marches only to confront Nazi sympathizers in his adopted America, died Feb. 28 at home in Berkeley, California....

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