(JTA) — The Brooklyn Nets traded Kyrie Irving to the Dallas Mavericks, a team whose Jewish owner had spoken up about the star guard’s antisemitism controversy last year.
Mark Cuban, known as one of the NBA’s most outspoken team owners and as...
(JTA) — Nearly two years after NBA player Meyers Leonard was caught using an antisemitic slur on a video game platform, the former first-round pick opened up about the incident and his subsequent journey toward forgiveness in an interview with Jewish...
(JTA) — Ohio’s department of education is investigating a homeschooling network that claims public schools are run by “Zionist scum,” teaches kids to say “Sieg Heil” in class and instructs fellow parents not to give their kids “Jewish media...
Jodi Rudoren, The Forward
• Published January 30, 2023
Our Sundays here in a comfortable New Jersey suburb are often structured around how many times we have to shuttle back and forth to synagogue.
Today, we were meant to bring our 15-year-old daughter there by 9:30 a.m. for her weekly gig babysitting the...
Bill Motchan, Special To The Jewish Light
• Published January 25, 2023
An illegible scrawl of graffiti has now been removed from the Congregation Temple Israel monument at the entrance on Ladue Road. TI staff discovered the red spray-painted marking on Tuesday, Jan. 24. Creve Coeur Police are investigating the incident,...
Adam Kovac, The Forward
• Published January 25, 2023
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One of the United States’ most notorious white supremacists is once again on Twitter.
On Tuesday, the social media...
(JNS) The number of antisemitic incidents has been “curbed” for the first time in a decade, a report released by the Department for Combatting Antisemitism of the World Zionist Organization on Tuesday shows.
Nevertheless, there were 10 antisemitic...
By Arno Rosenfeld, The Forward
• Published January 17, 2023
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A majority of Americans believe it is at least partly true that Jews “stick together more than other Americans,” and...
By Mitchell Bard, JNS
• Published January 12, 2023
(JNS) It seems that every Jewish organization claims it is fighting antisemitism. Yet, it is clear that they are failing. Many reasons account for the spread of this cancer. One is that some Jews are antisemites or have taken positions that are antisemitic....
(JTA) — The judge in the civil case brought against the organizers of the 2017 white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, that resulted in the death of a protester has slashed the penalties awarded to the victims.
Victims in the case,...
Odem Ashur, In partnership with the National Library of Israel
• Published January 3, 2023
It was around the time of the First World War. The waning Ottoman Empire still ruled over the Land of Israel, but the British were already waiting in the wings in Egypt. In this article, we will discuss the British officer and archaeologist whose name...
(JNS) -- The Kennedy Center last week shared a memorable comedy routine from Sacha Baron Cohen, who revived his Borat character—a Kazakh “journalist” known for his absurd accent, signature suit, sexual improprieties and over-the-top satire on antisemitism.
On...
