(JTA) — The news Monday that Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter had gone from what seemed like a joke to a $44 billion purchase agreement sent shockwaves across the global media landscape.
It is also raising the hopes and fears of users and critics...
(JTA) – The number of antisemitic incidents recorded by the Anti-Defamation League in the United States in 2021 reached an all-time high, according to a new report by the group.
The 2,717 incidents identified in news articles by the ADL or reported...
(JTA) – A Muslim student group at American University was set to co-sponsor an interfaith seder and Iftar event this week with the campus Hillel chapter, to commemorate Passover and Ramadan.
Then, in an Instagram post Saturday, the Muslim Student...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 23, 2022
The St. Louis Jewish Community Center has received the "all-clear" from local law enforcement after receiving an online threat Wednesday morning. The JCC in Philadelphia also received a threat, according to an ADL security alert email, and is "all clear"...
(JNS) The Combat Antisemitism Movement revealed in its latest monthly report that it monitored 19 physical attacks targeting Jews in January, which represents a 90 percent increase from the same time period last year.
In total, CAM tracked 158 anti-Semitic...
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Calling their faculty union “anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish, and anti-Israel,” six professors at the City University of New York have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit challenging what they call the union’s “monopoly”...
Victoria Myers, The Forward
• Published December 19, 2021
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A nice thing about being alive in this current moment in history is that one can say things...
Arno Rosenfeld, The Forward
• Published December 12, 2021
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A pair of grainy photos show a man delivering what appear to be a Nazi salute, decked...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published October 26, 2016
If you think more, better and educated dialogue is critical to young people’s understanding and concern about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, then you may be uneasy about a couple aspects of a recent Brandeis University study.The report on the study,...
Ahead of the Catholic Church’s annual “Day of Judaism,” a leading Vatican official slammed breakaway traditionalist Catholics for anti-Semitic positions and reaffirmed the Vatican’s commitment to fostering positive relations with the Jewish world....
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. State Department’s report on religious freedom described a “global increase” in anti-Semitism and said the “rising tide of anti-Semitism” was among the key trends of last year. The executive summary of the report for...
By Burton A. Boxerman, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published July 25, 2012
Numerous books have been written about Europe in the 1930s prior to the holocaust. In Bernard Wasserstein’s provoking book, “On the Eve, The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War” (Simon and Schuster, 552 pages; $32.50), the author, a Professor...
