Politics | Media Bias

NYT's Headline Deemed Too Jew-Friendly for UK News Site | HonestReporting

Why did The Independent feel the need to change a perfectly fine New York Times headline?

The Talmud is NOT a “forbidden text.” It’s readily available online and in English. The headline screams old fashioned, ignorant stereotypes.

Politics | Opinion

Israel News: No, Philo-semitism is not antisemitism in sheep's clothing

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I agree with this. “Progressives” often have extremely regressive viewpoints.

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

NowThis News gets DRAGGED for editing the captions on a video that claimed Anne Frank ‘didn’t die in a concentration camp

Busted.

News | News

In Arab Countries, Restoring Synagogues Means Never Saying Sorry for Past Crimes

The interior of the Eliyahu HaNavi synagogue in Alexandria, Egypt. Photo: World Monuments Fund. JNS.org – Last week, to much …

News | Jewish Community

Why Do Jews Eat Lox and Bagels?

I always thought that lox and bagels on
Sunday mornings is as “Jewish” as apple pie is “American.”

Who knew that the bagel had so much history?

Miscellaneous | Judaism

Jewish History: Who Was Amram?

Amram, son of Kehot, led the Jewish people in
Egypt and fathered three of the greatest leaders in Jewish history.

Miscellaneous | Chabad

‘We’ve Made Contact With Chabad,’ Raises a Cheer on Diverted El Al Flight

Passenger pens note of gratitude after unexpected Shabbat in Halifax

I LOVE this story.

Politics | Opinion

Will Arab anti-Zionism revive? | The Jerusalem post

The old wall of Arab anti-Zionism has fractured, but lingering hostility against Israel could explode anew.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Jersey City Kosher Market Shooters Were Carrying Devastating Bomb, Officials Disclose

Police officers and local residents near the scene of the Dec . 10 attack on a kosher supermarket in Jersey …

Amazing how quickly the mainstream media dropped this story. They didn’t even cover, at all, this major development.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Auschwitz Memorial Twitter account minimizes Polish complicity for the Holocaust

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Poland has launched a massive campaign to portray Poles as victims of the Holocaust no less than Jews, and even goes so far as to claim that the Poles were “heroes” of the Holocaust who spent most of the war attempting to rescue Jews. Amazingly, the Auschwitz Museum is complicit in this.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Ami Horowitz Hits The Ground In Brooklyn To Highlight NYC’s Shocking Anti-Semitism

Recently, documentary filmmaker and tongue-in-cheek former 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Ami Horowitz hit the ground running in Brooklyn to highlight the increasingly unavoidable anti-Semitism epidemic currently plaguing New York City. Horo

News | News

The ICC and the Orwellian denial of Jewish presence in Israel

This announcement has sparked considerable reactions and commentaries on whether it was legally grounded or not.

Miscellaneous | Judaism

Why Did Non-Kosher Animals Become Jewish Names?

This seems strange, since the sages place great significance on a
person’s name.

Politics | Politics

Sarah Halimi: Getting Away With Murder in the Land of Dieudonné

Sarah Halimi's murderer was deemed too high on pot to stand trial. It's not the first time France protected a Muslim after killing Jews.

Miscellaneous | Judaism

Judaism: The Truth about Moshiach - Moshiach 101

Why is Moshiach so integral to the Jewish belief system? It would certainly be nice to see an end to global suffering, but that is a universal ideal. Why is that a principle of the Jewish faith?

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

NY Times Reporter Blames White Nationalism for Anti-Semitic Attacks in New York

New York Times political reporter Astead Herndon repeatedly blamed white nationalism for the spate of anti-Semitic attacks that have broken out across New York City.

They are all scumbags.

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

No surprise here: ADL Turns NYC Solidarity March into squishy generic “anti-hate” rally

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News | Jewish Community

As Jewish Enclaves Spring Up Around NYC, So Does Intolerance

For years, ultra-Orthodox Jewish families priced out of increasingly expensive Brooklyn neighborhoods have been turning to the suburbs, where they have

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

After Monsey, it's time to say Jewish lives also matter

A horrific attack on the Jewish community in Monsey, N. Y., took place on Saturday, the seventh night of Hanukkah,

News | Antisemitism

Polish school show gives horrific nod to Nazi gas chambers

A school in eastern Poland recently put on a play with children in concentration camp uniforms being executed in Auschwitz

Politics | Politics

When Anti-Semitism Doesn’t Matter

In October 2018, during Sabbath morning services, a white supremacist attacked the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, murdering 11 people and wounding another six. In April 2019, in the middle of Passover, a white supremacist attacked the Chabad of Pow

News | Antisemitism Watch

Man Critically Wounded in Monsey Attack Still Unconscious; Family Says Knife ‘Penetrated His Skull’ Directly Into Brain

Josef Neumann. The family of Josef Neumann — the 71-year-old man who was critically wounded in Saturday night’s stabbing incident …

News | Antisemitism Watch

Antisemitic Friend of Rashida Tlaib & Linda Sarsour Abbas Hamideh’s Disgusting Tweet About Monsey Attack

Abbas Hamideh,  an antisemite and terror supporter I have posted about a number of times, reacted this way to the recent shooting attack in Monsey

Miscellaneous | Chabad

11 Treasures of the Chabad Library and the Stories They Tell

On Tevet 5, we celebrate the Library of Agudas Chassidei Chabad - Ohel Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch and its position as the communal treasure for all who value the teachings and ideals of Chabad Chassidism.

Miscellaneous | Judaism

(Why) Must a Bar Mitzvah Boy Read From the Torah?

There is a prevalent custom for boys to read
the weekly Torah portion when they become a bar mitzvah. Here's why.

Politics | Politics

New York Woman Who Was Freed on Bail After Attacking Three Jewish Women Rearrested a Day Later for Another Assault

Police in New York City have been dealing with rash of hate crimes targeting Jews during the 2019 holiday season. …

News | Israel/Jewish Community

BREAKING: NYC Woman Accused Of Anti-Semitic Attack Let Loose AGAIN After Second Arrest | The Daily Wire

Democrat-controlled New York City allowed 30-year-old Tiffany Harris to walk free on Monday after being arrested two times since Friday for allegedly committing two attacks, one of which was an alleged anti-Semitic attack. “At her second arraign

"The alleged Sunday attack happened after Harris was let out of jail without having to post bail after she was arrested on Friday for allegedly attacked striking three Orthodox Jewish women while yelling 'F**k you, Jews!'"

News | Israel/Jewish Community

Monsey attacker’s attorney said he has no criminal record, but he’s been arrested at least seven times

The Monsey attacker had been arrested for assault, resisting arrest, and menacing a police officer.

Politics | Politics

Identity Politics Enables Anti-Semitic Violence. Enough

How much more Jewish blood must be spilled before ending the violence against Jews becomes an end inherently worth pursuing?

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

BREAKING: Mass Stabbing Attack Reported At New York Synagogue

A mass stabbing attack was reported at a synagogue in New York late on Saturday night as multiple videos on social media showed a large response from law enforcement and emergency services. Orthodox website Vos Iz Neias reported that “a black male e

News | News

After Likud win, Netanyahu vows to 'finalize borders,' get US to back annexation | The Times of Israel

In speech after big victory over party rival, PM lays out six-point plan that also includes stopping Iran, normalizing ties with Arab countries

Of course because they are the people that suffer the most from “Palestinian” terror.

Miscellaneous | Diaspora

Fearing for his life, Jew secretly celebrates Hanukkah in enemy country

A Jew living in a hostile Arab country went out of his way to celebrate Hanukkah this week, despite the

Politics | Campus Watch

Campus anti-Semitism increasingly 'related to Israel'

Anti-Semitic attacks on US college campuses have reached a new high, the Strategic Affairs Ministry is reporting. According to information

News | Antisemitism Watch

Beyond Offensive- My Letter to the Manufacturer of “Auschwitz Ash” Offensive Crayons – Gina Raphael

December 21, 2019 Ms. Alice Cichon Offensive Crayons, LLC 1820 Avenue M Unit #370 Brooklyn, NY 11230 info@offensivecrayons.com Dear Ms. Cichon, Congratulations on starting a new Company. As someone who has been in  marketing & merchandising for over 30 ye

Politics | Media Bias

Vox Lies About Israel. AGAIN.

The oh-so-very conscientious Middle East historians at Vox, who once landed themselves in hot water barely three months after website launch with the dissemination of laughable fake news about a purported land bridge connecting the Hamas-controlled Gaza S

Politics | Opinion

Israel needs to say categorically that enabling Jews to live in the West Bank is not a war crime

Israel needs to say categorically that enabling Jews to live in the West Bank is not a war crime.

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

The Lesson Of Chanukah Is Deeply Relevant In 2019. Here’s Why.

The Jewish holiday of Chanukah — that’s properly spelled “Chanukah” and not “Hanukkah,” by the way — began last evening. At some point over the past century, as American Jewry grew in both rank and number and as a politically

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Jewish Studies academic writes about the Title VI Executive Order. Apparently, he never actually read it.

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Miscellaneous | Judaism

8 Old and New Chanukah Traditions!

Looking to expand beyond the bare-bones basics? Here are 8 deeply meaningful traditions
for you and your family to personalize.

News | News

Steve Kramer - Jewish Students Receive Protection from Aggression

Steve Kramer – Jewish Students Receive Protection from Aggression The BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) movement began on N. American college campuses during the previous administration. It’s just one of a number of campus campaigns aimed a

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

Stop ignoring black antisemitism! Elected black officials double down on antisemitic rant

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Politics | Politics

Why we should applaud Trump's executive order on anti-Semitism | TheHill

Colleges and universities need a legal definition of anti-Semitism to take a stronger stand against campus occurrences.

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

Jersey City School Board Member Calls Jews ‘Brutes,’ Asks What ‘Message’ Murderers Were Sending

After a Jersey City school board member called the Jewish community in the Greenville neighborhood “brutes” who have “threatened, intimidated and harassed” black homeowners in a Facebook post after the murders in a Jersey City kosher supermarket,

Politics | Resources

If You Hate Israel, You're No Friend of the Jews | PragerU

It’s one thing to criticize Israel. It’s another thing entirely to be against the very existence of the Jewish state. In this clarifying video, Dennis Prager defines the difference and explains why anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are one and the same.

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

New York Times Misleads Over Antisemitism Definition | HonestReporting

  The recent US presidential order targeting antisemitism on campus has unleashed an enormous amount of debate both in the media and within the US

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

I Accuse the Leadership of the Democratic Party of Responsibility for Violence Against Jews | Spengler

J'accuse! Violence against Jews now accounts for 58% of all crimes of religious hatred reported to the FBI. It isn't just the Jersey City massacre: Violence against Jews by blacks is now endemic in Hasidic neighborhoods in Brooklyn. This is the direct res

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

SHAPIRO: The Left's Grotesque Politicization Of Anti-Semitism

The Left, increasingly, does not care about anti-Semitism. That’s been true for a while— just look at the British Labour Party’s embrace of anti-Semite Jeremy Corbyn (today, the UK Guardian openly editorialized, “The pain and hurt within the Jewish commun

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

Why The American Jewish establishment slanders President Trump

The past week has clarified a lot of things about the state of the American Jewish community – and its

News | News

Elder Of Ziyon - Everyone is getting the EO on antisemitism wrong, and one has to ask why

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Politics | Politics

Rashida Tlaib is heartbroken over murdered Jews. Oh, they were killed by blacks? Never mind.

US Representative Rashida Tlaib tweeted this morning:

News | Jewish Community

Jewish Community Comes Together as Anti-Semitic Killers Identified in Jersey City Rampage

Four victims are mourned after an attack that has shaken people everywhere

Politics | Opinion

Why Trump Gets it Right about Antisemitism

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Entertainment | Entertainment

Soldiers, survivors and lovable rogues: the new wave of Jewish cinema

Uncut Gems is one of a host of upcoming releases, also including Nazi satire Jojo Rabbit, that prove Jewish characters can be more than kvetching cosmopolitans

News | Antisemitism Watch

Huge News: President Donald Trump to Target Antisemitism on US Campuses | Israellycool

But do tell me how he is an antisemite.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Israeli Student Badly Beaten on Paris Metro by 'Antisemitic, Anti-Zionist' Assailant

Israeli student B. Yogev was beaten up on the Paris Metro by an ‘anti-Zionist, antisemitic’ assailant. Photo: Meyer Habib Twitter …

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

Jersey City Gunmen Targeted Jewish Grocery for Lethal Attack, Mayor Says

Police responding to a shooting incident in Jersey City, New Jersey, Dec. 10, 2019. Photo: Reuters. Police in the New …

Antisemitism is running RAMPANT and (some) people are complaining that President Trump is extending the same civil rights protections to Jews that it ethnic minorities have enjoyed for decades.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Elder Of Ziyon - Apparently, protecting Jews from antisemitism is now considered antisemitic

From the NYT (I am not going to fisk the article itself, which is biased towards BDS in unreal ways:)

The criticisms of this is absolutely INSANE. People need to wake up. There are far more important issues at stake that demand gay more than simply opposing anything Trump says. For all of the critics: GROW UP.

Politics | Politics

Trump to sign order to interpret Judaism as a nationality

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday to interpret Judaism as a nationality and not just a religion, a move that the Trump administration believes will fight what they perceive as anti-Semitism on college campuses, a White House

I am 100% for this. Also: this was LONG overdue. “Jewish” is, uniquely, a nationality and a religion. Yet because, until now, the law only sees us a religion, much of civil rights laws haven’t been applicable to Antisemitism. That’s , very obviously, absurd. Jews are targeted far more than any other religious group, and Antisemitism the law needs to acknowledge that we aren’t “just” a religioun.

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

Three Jews Among Dead in Shootout at Kosher Supermarket in New Jersey

Police responding to a shooting incident in Jersey City, New Jersey, Dec. 10, 2019. Photo: Reuters. At least six people …

News | Antisemitism Watch

How the media are helping to normalize antisemitism

When it comes to antisemitism, what “qualifies” as newsworthy is being selectively defined by a fourth estate that is unwilling to detail, much less confront, a virus that has murdered millions.

Politics | Opinion

Don't let Sanders get away with redefining 'pro-Israel'

Linda Sarsour did it again. The Palestinian-American BDS activist/anti-Trump "resistance" activist spoke at a conference of American Muslims for Palestine

Miscellaneous | Judaism

Why Add a Light Each Night of Chanukah?

There are two general reasons given in the Talmud1 for why we add a candle each night:

Politics | Media Bias

New York Times Fabricates ‘Fierce Debate’ Among British Jews | CAMERA

Times' Benjamin Mueller cites a brand-new, marginal, fringe group while completely ignoring the large, influential, mainstream organizations in order to bolster the baseless fantasy

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

Trump's IAC speech is a Rorschach test of the Jewish left

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Politics | Campus Watch

Columbia professor Joseph Massad admits Palestinian "return" is meant to destroy Israel

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News | Israel & The Jewish Community

CHAREIDIM REFUSE Jordanian Demand To Remove Yarmulka And Tzitzis, Women To Remove Head-Coverings

Almost 100 Israeli deputy mayors who were attending a conference in Eilat were scheduled for a tour of Petra, Jordan on Tuesday morning. Instead of

News | Antisemitism

UK Op-Ed: 'The Trouble With Jews Today' | HonestReporting

Shame on The Independent for publishing Slavoj Zizek's deeply offensive and arguably antisemitic opinion piece.

News | News

Russian figure skater sparks controversy for wearing Holocaust-themed outfit

The International Skating Union (ISU) was forced into an embarrassing climbdown Tuesday after an Auschwitz-themed outfit was nominated for "Best

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?

News | Jewish Community

Judaism, Jails and Justice: A Conversation With Judge Jack B. Weinstein

The 98-year-old federal jurist speaks about criminal justice, the Aleph Institute, and the Rebbe’s influence on his life and work

Politics | Opinion

Want to Keep Jews Safe? Criminalize Marijuana – Tablet Magazine

Sarah Halimi’s case marks a new milestone for the already embattled French Jewish community. After a drawn out court case, on Wednesday, Nov. 27, a Paris judge dropped the murder charges against Halimi’s killer, Kobili Traoré, 29, on the grounds that smok

France is despicable in so many ways. They would have found some other excuse if Marijuana was already illegal.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Hallmark’s making some Hanukkah movies. The only problem? They’re anti-Semitic.

These holiday specials are really Christmas movies with Jewish characters, and they draw on old, dangerous tropes.

For the record, I don’t agree that President Trump invoked a “trope” when he referred to someone doing some shifty things as “shifty.” Remarking on someone Jewish in unflattering ways isn’t itself antisemitic. However, the idea that Chanukah is “merely” Jewish Xmas or that Jews are somehow “missing out” by not celebrating Xmas is absurd. We literally have holidays every month of the year except one and in some cases-multiple holidays. That they also felt compared to make the Jewish characters into cliches worthy of the worst types of antisemitic European tropes is disgusting. Hallmark shouldn’t be making movies about holidays that they do NOT understand, and don’t lend themselves to sugary, sappy, empty confections of predictable, mindless nonsense.

Politics | Opinion

And they call themselves the New Israel Fund?

The New Israel Fund has the chutzpa to stand with Europe's bias against israel.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Anti-Semitic Views Held by Over Two Thirds of Dedicated Corbyn Supporters

A new study finds that more than two thirds of dedicated Corbyn supporters hold anti-Semitic views.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Belgian carnival to mock Jews again, gives up UNESCO status

The mayor of Aalst Christoph D'Haese said that city officials "have had it a bit with the grotesque complaints" and it is "unavoidable" that Jews will be mocked again in the 2020 edition.

News | Antisemitism Watch

UK Jewish Children Assaulted on Bus in Third Antisemitic Outrage on London Public Transport in Single Week

CCTV footage captured the assailant before he launched his attack on Orthodox Jews traveling on a London bus. Photo: Twitter. …

Politics | Campus Watch

In Survey, UC Berkeley Prof. Finds Most Students ‘Passionate’ About ‘Israeli Occupation’ Can’t Find Palestinian Territories on Map

Israeli security forces gather at the scene of a Palestinian terrorist attack near the West Bank settlement of Dolev, Aug. …

Eighty-four percent of those in the most passionate cohort could not name the decade when Israel captured the West Bank, while 75 percent could not locate the Palestinian territories in question on a map. Twenty-five percent “of these students placed the Palestinian Territories west of Lebanon, in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea,” Hassner wrote. “The class average for this blunder was 14%.”

Politics | Campus Watch

The dilution of higher education by BDS

Growing up as the child of Jewish anti-apartheid activists in Johannesburg, South Africa, I was immersed in political debates, news

Miscellaneous | Diaspora

Arab States Are Claiming the Heritage of Their Expelled Jews

Iraqi Jews leaving Lod airport in Israel on their way to the Ma’abara transit camp, 1951. Photo: Israel Government Press …

Miscellaneous | Judaism

New Video App Shows Children a Better World - Chabad.org/Kids continues to raise the bar for Jewish children’s media

The new Chabad.org video app for children will deliver technologically advanced features while including the hundreds of videos from JewishKids.org, packaging them in a feature-rich experience with an improved look and feel.
The new Chabad.org video app for children will deliver technologically advanced features while including the hundreds of videos from JewishKids.org, packaging them in a feature-rich experience with an improved look and feel.

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

Fiona Hill Should Be Condemned by Jewish Groups. She Won’t Be

Fiona Hill, the former senior director for European and Russian affairs for the Trump Administration, testified last week in the House impeachment hearings.

At one point, U.S. Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) asked her: "Would you say that the

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Tragedy and Resolve: 11 Years After Mumbai Terror - Chabad-Lubavitch News

Remembering the murder and legacy of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Finding Hidden Jews - The stories of Chabad rabbis in Oklahoma, Turkey, and Slovakia

Follow the extraordinary stories of three Chabad Shluchim (emissaries), from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Istanbul, Turkey, and Piestany, Slovakia.

Miscellaneous | Judaism

Why Is Eating Melaveh Malkah Important? - Shabbat

The sages in the Talmud tell us to “always set the table after Shabbat even to eat small amount of food." Here's why.

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

Police Arrest Suspect Over Antisemitic London Tube Diatribe Against Jewish Passengers

A man was recorded verbally abusing Jewish passengers on the London Underground on Nov. 22, 2019. Photo: Screenshot. A man …

News | ISRAEL NEWS

More Than 11,000 People Urge Canada to Reverse UN Vote Calling Western Wall ‘Occupied Palestinian Territory’ | Jewis

The United Nations General Assembly hall. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. More than 11,000 people have signed a petition urging the Canadian …

"East Jerusalem," which is just Jerusalem, contains the most holy site in Judaism, the so called "West Bank," which is actually Judea and Samaria, contain the second most holy place in Judaism and most of the sites where the Biblical stories occurred. It is completely absurd to claim that these places aren't Jewish when they were Jewish for 3,000 years before anyone ever heard of a "Palestinian."