The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe renewed the posting of Rabbi Andrew Baker of the American Jewish Committee to its top anti-Semitism post. On Wednesday, AJC said that the OSCE had reappointed Baker to be its personal representative...
Interfaith opportunity should not be missedThere comes a moment in time when the decision to act, to make a committment, to pay back for what others have done for us is upon us. The time has come.In the 1990s in Billings, Mont. a brick was thrown through...
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) will present Community Tributes: With A Little Help From Our Friends, to recognize those with whom the organization accomplishes its grassroots advocacy and education.Missouri State Highway Patrol, Bryan Cave LLP, Central...
By Repps Hudson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published September 28, 2011
In a sense, Hannah Rosenthal is guaranteed job security as long as she stays at her post in the U.S. State Department.Rosenthal, 60, is U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, a position she's held since 2010. And, as history has shown,...
Israel's complexity, and the nature of the world's response to it, is in danger of defeating us as a community.How can we say when a fiery piece of theater is "anti-Semitic," and when it is simply "courageous and challenging"? How do we know when a documentary...
Aquinas Institute of Theology, Eden Theological Seminary and the Jewish Community Relations Council's Michael and Barbara Newmark Institute for Human Relations will present "Christian Anti-Semitism Today: What Is It? Where Is It? How Do We Respond?" from...
Comparing bris milah and ‘bris shalom'The article in the Aug. 10 issue about "bris shalom," the non-cutting ritual done in place of a bris milah (ritual circumcision), reminded me of a story I heard years ago from a good friend who served in the Navy...
By Jonah Lowenfeld, Jewish Journal
• Published August 10, 2011
LOS ANGELES - In the same week in which a San Francisco judge struck from the city's November ballot a controversial measure aiming to ban circumcision of any male younger than 18, two reputable media sources reported on a relatively new, little-known...
By Arthur Gale, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published August 10, 2011
In "The Jew is not my Enemy: Unveiling the Myths that Fuel Muslim Anti-Semitism" (McClelland & Stewart, $24.95), journalist Tarek Fatah claims that the Hadith, a compilation of the sayings attributed to Mohammed, is the source of much Muslim hatred...
WASHINGTON - Hannah Rosenthal, the State Department's envoy for combating anti-Semitism, was heartened if skeptical when some Arab officials pledged to her that they would remove anti-Semitic tropes from their school curricula.She was frustrated when...
Yale University is launching a new program for the study of anti-Semitism, the school’s provost said in a statement.Monday’s announcement by Peter Salovey of the creation of the Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism comes less than three weeks...
WASHINGTON — The United States will not participate in the United Nations-sponsored Durban III conference this September, the State Department said. In a letter to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Joseph Macmanus, acting assistant secretary of state...
