Antisemitism

By Rabbi Benji Levy A few weeks ago, I woke up to a flurry of messages from my students in Australia asking how swastikas could taint the iconic Bondi beach...

By Sandy Eller Community leaders representing the full spectrum of the Flatbush community took part in a meeting arranged by the Flatbush Jewish Community Coalition recently at the Ohel building...

Mehdi Nemmouche, a French jihadist convicted of killing four people at the Jewish Museum of Brussels in Belgium in May 2014, was convicted of “terrorist murder” last week and...

Pope Francis on Friday branded antisemitism part of a wave of “depraved hatred” sweeping some countries and urged everyone to be vigilant against it. In comments to members of the...

BY CNAAN LIPHSHIZ (JTA) — I initially had some empathy for the creators of an antisemitic carnival float in Belgium. Studying their CVs and past creations for the annual carnival of Aalst, I...

Prominent UK Jewish groups praised the Equality and Human Rights Commission on Thursday for its decision to open an investigation into antisemitism in the Labour party. Since far-left MP Jeremy...

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution on Thursday afternoon condemning antisemitism and Islamophobia. The final tally was 407-23. “Whereas whether from the political right, center or left, bigotry, discrimination,...

BY MARCY OSTER (JTA) — White supremacists dramatically stepped up their propaganda efforts targeting neighborhoods and campuses in 2018 to never-before seen levels. Such efforts increased by 182 percent, to 1,187...

Nassau County police are investigating a bias incident reported on Sunday in Searingtown. According to detectives, the Director of Education was walking down a stairwell at Shelter Rock Jewish Center...

Emory University professor and American historian Deborah Lipstadt is one of the world’s most prominent scholars on the Holocaust and antisemitism. In 1996, Lipstadt was famously sued for libel in...