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St. Louis Jewish Light

Antisemitism

Man who survived cruel Nazi medical experiments as baby, brings story to Maryville University

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished October 4, 2023

Born just two months after the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, Sami Steigmann's family lived in Romania. By 1941, the 2-year-old Steigmann was living in a labor camp in Ukraine, where he was subjected to cruel Nazi medical experiments. At one point, Steigmann...

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event about lowering health care costs in the East Room of the White House July 7, 2023.

Biden tasks eight cabinet departments with extending civil rights protections to victims of antisemitism

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished September 28, 2023

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Biden administration is aiming to counter antisemitism and discrimination in federally-funded transit systems, housing, food programs and other areas — one of the most major actions the White House has taken since it unveiled...

During the 1920s, Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford spread virulent anti-Semitism in his weekly newspaper The Dearborn Independent. Photo: Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons

The head of the Ford Foundation condemns antisemitism and Henry Ford’s part in it

Aviya Kushner, The ForwardPublished September 27, 2023

It was nothing less than astonishing to see Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, issue a statement condemning both antisemitism and Henry Ford’s part in perpetuating it.  “We must look to the lessons of history,” Walker...

Thousands of people attend a pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden in New York in May 1934, with counterprotestors outside.

Nazi Germany had admirers among American religious leaders – and white supremacy fueled their support

Meghan Garrity, George Mason University and Melissa J. Wilde, University of PennsylvaniaPublished September 26, 2023

Each September marks the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s Nuremberg Laws, whose passage in 1935 stripped Jews of their German citizenship and banned “race-mixing” between Jews and other Germans. Eighty-eight years later, the United States is facing...

Missouri adopts IHRA antisemitism definition

Missouri adopts IHRA antisemitism definition

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished September 20, 2023

Dozens of members of the St. Louis Jewish community were on hand in Jefferson City Wednesday as Missouri adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism and recognized September as Jewish American...

A rally in New York City against antisemitism. Credit: Christopher Penler/Shutterstock.

Local St. Louis television special to focus on the history and rise of antisemitism

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished September 20, 2023

Though it has always existed, antisemitism has grown in recent years, moving from the fringe and obscure to the mainstream. Just this morning, two days after Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported how nearly 1 in 3 Jewish college students...

Prominent right-wing extremist Sven Krüger, on left, is accompanied by a police officer during a search operation on his property in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, Sept. 19, 2023.

Germany bans neo-Nazi group to send ‘signal against racism and antisemitism’

Published September 20, 2023

(JTA) — Germany has banned a neo-Nazi group after raiding the homes of its leaders across the country, in a move the government said “sends a clear signal against racism and antisemitism.” The Hammerskins, a local spinoff of a group founded in...

Dr. Will Gillanders (breast oncology) and Dr. Terry Myckatyn (plastic surgery), and Dr. Ryan Fields.

Jewish cancer doctor explains how ‘Pedal The Cause’ is fighting back

Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content OfficerPublished September 18, 2023

When Dr. Ryan Fields straps on his helmet, climbs on his bike and clips into his pedals for this weekend’s Pedal the Cause 2023, he will be among hundreds of riders pushing the limits of their endurance to raise money to fund cancer research. But, when...

Former president Donald Trump posted a bizarre Rosh Hashanah message Sept. 17 addressed to ‘liberal Jews’ who ‘voted to destroy America and Israel’.

Donald Trump wishes happy Rosh Hashanah to ‘liberal Jews who voted to destroy America and Israel’

Jackie Hajdenberg, JTAPublished September 18, 2023

(JTA) — Former U.S. president Donald Trump launched his latest broadside against liberal Jews — while wishing them a happy Rosh Hashanah. “Just a quick reminder for liberal Jews who voted to destroy America & Israel because you believed false...

Nearly 1 in 3 Jewish college students has witnessed or experienced antisemitism on campus, survey finds

Nearly 1 in 3 Jewish college students has witnessed or experienced antisemitism on campus, survey finds

Andrew LapinPublished September 17, 2023
Nearly one in three current Jewish college students has witnessed or experienced some form of antisemitism on campus, according to a new survey.
Why Jews should pay close attention to book banning and bomb threats against libraries

Why Jews should pay close attention to book banning and bomb threats against libraries

By Aviya Kushner, The ForwardPublished September 13, 2023

Bomb threats against libraries have become a growing trend in the U.S., and the Jewish community should pay attention. Violent attacks on books are a sad and dangerous theme throughout Jewish history, and the escalation from book bans to threats of physical...

Feb 13, 2022; Inglewood, CA, USA; Rapper/recording artist Kanye West during the Cincinnati Bengals game against the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium.

Meta’s Oversight Board urges improved distinction between hate speech and criticism of hate speech

Asaf Elia-Shalev, JTAPublished September 13, 2023

(JTA) – In January, a Turkish Instagram user posted part of an interview with Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, making statements in praise of Hitler and denying the Holocaust as well — and swiftly had the post removed from the social media...

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