News | News

Rally in NYC to protest light sentence for antisemitic attacker

Wassem Awawdeh was offered a six-month term after beating a Jewish man with a crutch; he told police he “would do it again.” 

News | Antisemitism Watch

Why is the Reform movement defending an antisemite?

The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism’s defense of Ilhan Omar is an expression of contemptuous privilege.

Never refer to it as “Reform Judaism,” because it is as Jewish as ham. The leaders of these despicable organizations (not just the reform movement) lie constantly to their naive followers. They are destroying, and have been for MANY decades, the American Jewish world.

News | News

California professor with history of pro-terrorism comments honored

The Middle East Studies Association gives Rabab Abdulhadi its Annual Service Award.

Of course this scumbag was honored in leftist California.

Politics | Media Bias

The New York Times’ Orwellian obsession with Israel

The Jewish state and Judaism received disproportionate negative coverage throughout 2022.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Holocaust memorial: Welsh government minister excludes Jews from vigil invitation

Julie Morgan MS refused to apologise after sending vigil invitation for 'gypsy, Roma and traveller' victims, but no mention of Jews

News | Iran

Revealed: 'London office' of Iran terror Guards in heart of Jewish neighbourhood - The Jewish Chronicle

Centre at heart of Jewish community ‘spreads the word of repressive regime’

News | Antisemitism Watch

New poll reveals rising antisemitism in the Democrat party

One of my favorite pastimes is reading the Facebook feed of an extremely nice man I know who is both an ardent Democrat and an ardent Israel supporter. For several years now, he’s been trapped in a state of cognitive dissonance, trying to squar...

News | Antisemitism Watch

The Whitewashing of Antisemitism, a Hatred of Many Colors

By Richard Bernstein, RealClearInvestigationsJanuary 19, 2023
It was a common occurrence on the streets of one of New York City's Jewish neighborhoods: A man dressed in the long black coat and broad h

News | News

NYC's Top Prosecutor Lets Violent Jew-Haters Off Easy

Two men charged with battering a Jewish man will spend little to no time in jail for their role in the anti-Semitic hate crime, the Manhattan district attorney's office told the Washington Free Beacon this week.

Politics | Opinion

The undeniable link between antisemitism and America’s decline

It Starts With The Jews But Never Ends With The Jews.

News | Antisemitism Watch

A New Study Shows That the U.S. Has More Anti-Semites Than Jews

According to a recent survey conducted by the Antidefamation League (ADL), disturbingly large numbers of Americans answered “yes” when asked if they believe Jews “go out of their way to hire other Jews” or “are more loyal to Israel than to America,” and to other similar questions. Kevin Williamson reflects on these results, and what they say about the persistence of this “strange prejudice.”

News | Antisemitism Watch

Anti-Semitism worst among blacks and young adults in poll released ahead of MLK Day

The two groups were far more likely than Republicans or conservatives to believe negative stereotypes about Jews.

Black antisemitism is a serious problem, and has been for decades. Antisemitism is prevalent among younger people because they haven’t been taught history and their leftist overlords hate Jews and use hatred of Israel as cover. Neither will get better, until the left is neutralized.

Politics | Opinion

Caroline Glick: The ‘woke’ West is assaulting Jews for embracing their heritage

The “Caroline Glick Show,” with Caroline Glick and guest Richard Landes.

Politics | Campus Watch

Jew-Hate at American Universities

[The Amcha] report paints a stark picture of an increasing, intensifying and carefully coordinated campaign of attacks on Jewish identity at over 60% of the colleges and universities that are popular with Jews, including 2,000 incidents intended to harm

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Number of Americans believing antisemitic stereotypes nearly doubled since 2019

Poll finds that 85% of people in US agree with at least one racist trope about Jews, while 20% believe at last six; 20% think Jews have 'too much power'

I have no respect, AT ALL, for the ADL - but the data is the data. I also don't believe that the "number" of Americans who believe antisemitic stereotypes has drastically risen, I think that most of these people already believed in the stereotypes, but feel much more comfortable publicly admitting it, which is, in some ways, far worse. The reason that being a Jew hater is so much more acceptable is that the left is race obsessed (even thought they laughably deny it), but consider Jews "white." So when it was good to be white, we weren't white (ask the Nazis), but now that being white is "bad," they deem us white, and apply every (imaginary) egregious facet of "whiteness" to Jews (and often greatly magnify those negative qualities).

Either way, there is ZERO doubt that antisemitism in America is drastically more common than anyone believed before.

Politics | Biden Administration/Congress

Biden Is Failing to Deliver in the Fight Against Antisemitism. This is why.

The Biden White House had announced last spring (and even before that), that the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) would deliver an important proposed regulation in December 2022.

News | Antisemitism Watch

The Need to Curb Black Anti-Semitism

An age-old malignancy is resurgent, particularly in the African-American community.

Politics | Media Bias

Antisemitism and the New York Times

The NYT recently published its10th article taking aim at Hasidic schools since September, in addition to a lengthy editorial and other features accusing that

News | Antisemitism Watch

Podcast: 'Antisemitism is now a form of entertainment - and that's new'

Kanye West and Dave Chappelle are not isolated incidents of 'performative' Jew-hatred, says Prof. Alvin Rosenfeld, head of IU's Center for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism

Miscellaneous | Diaspora

After 400 Years of Jewish Settlement, Jamaica Gets a Mikvah

New Chabad House brings new light to Caribbean nation

Politics | Opinion

A letter to our Jewish brethren in Europe

  1. Brothers and sisters in Europe, some of you have published an appeal – another in an endless series

News | Antisemitism Watch

New report details rising antisemitism in Kentucky

The eight-page document goes month by month in chronicling a slew of hate crimes and anti-Jewish harassment in the Bluegrass State.

Politics | Biden Administration/Congress

Biden Administration Delays Civil Rights Protections Against Antisemitism to December; Palestinian Group Lauds Move

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a welcoming ceremony at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, near Tel Aviv, …

You know when the “Palestinians” are all kidding it-it’s bad for Jews.

Politics | Opinion

Why Palestinians Want to Slaughter Jewish Worshippers

The Palestinian Authority, which is in charge of security in Nablus, has -- despite official agreements in the Oslo Accords -- nevertheless refused to fulfill its commitment to protect and ensure free access to Joseph's Tomb. So far, no one has called

Politics | Opinion

Netanyahu must defend Israel against ‘wokeism’

The “Caroline Glick Show,” with Caroline Glick and guest Yoram Hazony.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Posters Glorifying Palestinian “Martyrs” Found in LA

Various posters glorifying Palestinian “martyrs” were found in Los Angeles on December 16. The Palestinian Youth Movement announced in an Instagram post

As always, almost all of the statements from Jewish organizations are pointless. Particularly mealy mouthed and useless is Stand With Us’ pathetic “both sides are to blame” nonsense. We need new, tough, unapologetically pro-Jewish leadership. Not the same leftist, weak, jargon filled non-profit heads who contribute absolutely nothing to the fight-they don’t even seem to get that it IS a fight.

Politics | Opinion

From Jew vilification to the delegitimization of Israel

Why do so many people dislike the Jewish state? Is it because we Israelis are a bit loud on planes? Is it the genuine challenge to find an Israeli who doesn't cut in line? What is the correct answer?

News | Antisemitism Watch

The New, New Antisemitism

The old antisemitism was more a right-wing than a left-wing phenomenon—perhaps best personified by the now-withered Ku Klux Klan. A new antisemitism followed…

News | Antisemitism Watch

Understanding the upsurge in black attacks on Jews

Antisemitism in the United States is being exploited by separatists in order to destroy the integrationist ideal.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Menorah in Coney Island Destroyed Amid Wave of Antisemitic Vandalism Incidents Across the World

Vandalized menorah in Coney Island, New York. Photo: Twitter. A menorah in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York …

There were LOTS of menorahs destroyed this year by antisemites, including Beverly Hills, Maine, Germany, Chile and Manhattan.

Politics | POLITICS

The Democrats must have a ‘Sister Souljah moment’ on antisemitism

It is time for Biden and others to rise up and condemn antisemites in their own party like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.

Miscellaneous | Jewish Life

Why I Changed My Name from Rosenberg to Kohn - A family’s journey to reclaim their lost last name - Chabad

We are the Rosenbergs. Or rather, we were the Rosenbergs. As of Thursday, the 4th day of Chanukah, we are now the Kohns.

News | Antisemitism Watch

‘Petty, miserly’? Following outrage, Google corrects antisemitic definition of ‘Jew’

A search for the definition of 'Jew' on Google showed shockingly antisemitic results on Tuesday.

Politics | Opinion

Elder Of Ziyon - Whoopi Goldberg's perverted mindset is a manifestation of the larger phenomenon of Black antisemitism

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

I agree with every word of this and have been saying almost all of it for decades. However, I wish he didn’t play into the hands of the left by absurdly capitalizing “black,” while “white” (which should also not be capitalized) remains lower case. It’s silly and inconsistent.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Whoopi repeats claims that Holocaust was 'not about race,' says Nazis targeted the 'mentally defective'

“Remember who they were killing first,” Goldberg said. “They were
not killing racial; they were killing physical. They were killing
people they considered to be mentally defective. And then they
made this decision.”

This woman is a despicable, ignorant, bigot. But she will never be fired because shes a member of the uber rich, mostly white, Hollywood elite. She’s a revolting person:

“The interviewer once again pushed back, with, "But the Nazis measured the heads and noses of Jews to 'prove' they were a distinct race."

"They did that to black people too. But it doesn't change the fact that you could not tell a Jew on a street. You could find me. You couldn't find them," Goldberg argued.

"That was the point I was making," she added about her remarks on The View. "But you would have thought that I'd taken a big old stinky dump on the table, butt naked."”

Politics | Campus Watch

Wall Street Journal Article Rehabilitates Antisemites | CAMERA

Nerdeen Kiswani once threatened to set another person's IDF sweatshirt on fire while he was wearing it. Now the Journal quotes her an an

This is absolutely disgusting.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Nazi SS symbol carved into Beverly Hills menorah, suspect arrested

Beverly Hills Police Chief Mark Stainbrook said, “A despicable act such as this will never be tolerated in our City.”

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

Black America’s Anti-Semitism Problem

From Kanye West endorsing Hitler to Kyrie Irving inviting followers to watch a documentary about how blacks are the true Jews, anti-Semitism from prominent black figures has been in the news. A recent study explores the phenomenon of black anti-Semitism m

Politics | Campus Watch

Hanukkah and the new imperialist assault on Judaism

Campus antisemites are seeking to destroy not just Israel, but Jewish identity itself.

Politics | Campus Watch

The ‘Jew-Free Zones’ at Berkeley story wasn’t ‘misinformation’

After leftists spent two months claiming outrage over groups vowing never to let Zionists speak on campus was overblown, the Department of Education is investigating.

News | News

Egyptian Jews on brink of extinction mark Hanucah • Point of No Return

Nine years ago, Magda Haroun organised a Hanucah service at Cairo’s Adly St synagogue. But in the absence of a rabbi she turned to Google to find instructions on how to lead the service, she tells CBS News. Now the ‘community’ she heads in Cairo is compos

News | Antisemitism Watch

Fury as pupils at elite British public school perform Hitler salutes during play

Parent complains after pupils prompted to enact sieg heils as part of ‘educational’ play at Millfield school

News | Antisemitism Watch

Brandeis Center: FBI Report Grossly Understated Antisemitic Crimes

“During an epidemic of antisemitism and other forms of violent hate, Americans need accurate information.”

Politics | Opinion

Is talk of globalism an antisemitic dog whistle?

The ADL and other liberals mistakenly believe critiques of efforts to undermine national sovereignty and pushing woke leftist policies are always about Jew-hatred.

Amazing given that Charlamagne the Jackass is an antisemite and a fan of Farrakhan.

Politics | Biden Administration/Congress

Elder Of Ziyon - The White House initiative against antisemitism falls way short

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Prosecutions For Brutal May 2021 Antisemitic Assaults in NYC Moving At Glacial Pace

Court cases proceed slowly; meanwhile, two assailants were charged with new crimes this fall.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Kyrie Irving and Louis Farrakhan are 2 variants of Black antisemitism. What’s the difference?

A “documentary” that demonizes Jews and delegitimizes Judaism and the Jewish state helped Kyrie Irving “know who” he is.

Politics | Opinion

'Black People are the real Jews'

The Jewish presence in the civil right movements has been erased from black history. Liberal Jews have erased their own history. Op-ed

Politics | Biden Administration/Congress

The Biden Administration's Hostility to Israel

The January 28, 2021 appointment as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs of Hady Amr, a man who wrote "I was inspired by the Palestinian intifada" and who falsely accused Israel of "ethnic cleansing," was a significant step that

WHAT will it take for Jews to stop voting for people who hate us, and have absolutely no interest in supporting us in any way??? And there is no separation between Jews and Israel.

Miscellaneous | Judaism

12 Facts About Judah Every Jew Should Know

Judah was the fourth son of Jacob and Leah. Compared to a lion, Judah was the ancestor of the royal House of David. He made mistakes and rectified them, blazing a path for others to follow.

News | News

Ye: ‘Jewish people, forgive Hitler today’

The rapper continued his pro-Nazi media tour on Monday night.

He should be fealty with, and fealty with violently. This guy is a lowlife of the worst kind. There are no excuses for this. He is pure evil.

Politics | Debunking Lies

How academia omits facts to make Palestinians the perpetual victim

Opinion: Academics have personal opinions and agendas like the rest of us, but erasing evidence only because it contradicts researchers' political positions is wrong and misleading

News | Antisemitism Watch

The US liberal Jewish establishment is failing at fighting antisemitism

The “Caroline Glick Show,” with Caroline Glick and guest Mort Klein.

This goes without saying. And, it’s been the case for AT LEAST 40 years, or more. The “liberal establishment” has always been led by cowards. It’s only committed Jews, who tend to be conservative, that consistently show courage. Which is NOT to say that many liberal Jews have not, individually, shown courage.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Enough hypocrisy on antisemitism

The focus on Kanye West should lead to a discussion about the acceptance of hate among African-Americans and the bizarre alliance of far-left and far-right, not partisan bickering.

Politics | Opinion

It sucks to be a Jew on the left

As Hadley Freeman leaves the Guardian for the Sunday Times, she opens up about her Jewish experience

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Kanye West's antisemitism inspired by Louis Farrakhan

Farrakhan must be treated as a persona non grata in America. For too long, his poisonous presence and rhetoric have been tolerated.

It once again comes down to, antisemitism is perfectly ok, when the purveyors of the racist/ethnic bigotry are members of intersectional groups.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Report: Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes on U.S. College Campuses Skyrocket

A "pervasive and relentless assault on Jewish identity" is occurring daily at colleges across America, according to a new report from a watchdog group that found assaults on Jewish students and their identity doubled in the 2021 to 2022 academic year, par

News | Jewish Community

How not to fight Antisemitism | Israel National News

Jewish organizations want to fight antisemitism but have they isolated themselves from the people they claim to represent. Op-ed.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

The Mutating Virus: Understanding Antisemitism | Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

"The hate that begins with Jews never ends with Jews." On 27th September 2016, Rabbi Sacks delivered a keynote address entitled 'The Mutating Virus: Understa...

It is Rabbi Sacks yahrzeit today. He was a giant, a genius, and his words are, as always, just a relevant as ever.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Threats With Same Pattern as Previous Attacks Prompt FBI to Issue Alert for New Jersey Synagogues

The branch office in Newark, NJ, sent out a stark alert on Thursday.

This needs to stop. It won’t stop until Jews start arming themselves, and letting everyone know that there will be serious consequences for attacks on ANYONE in the Jewish community.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Elder Of Ziyon - The .@NYTimes mirrors its 1991 biased coverage of the Crown Heights pogrom

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

I remember the Crown Heights riots well. It was spurred by race hustlers like Al Sharpton who used a lie to manufacture an attack on the entire Jewish community, in which one young Jews was murdered. The New York Times, then as now, along with all of the mainstream media, portrayed it as another example of “both sides” causing a problem which they knew was originated by blacks and spread by Jew hating blacks that wanted to cause as much mayhem as possible. But, then as now, you can’t tell the truth without being branded as a “racist” - and the antisemites bad racists use that totally to their advantage.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Why I think the Golden Age for Jews in America is coming to its end

The decline in the favorability of mainstream American views toward Israel has coincided with a rise in antisemitic violence, particularly in large metropolises, promoted by Islamo-Leftist groups.

Great article. Having grown up right in the middle of this “golden age,” it is obvious, and alarming, that we’re facing the first real era of widespread, active (meaning not hidden, but out in the open), antisemitism in my lifetime. Personally, I will NEVER shrink from being outwardly Jewish. I actually wear my Magen David (Star of David) even more (and just as obviously as I Walt’s have). I don’t think there is any way of reversing this. Americans are unprecedentedly ignorant of history, and the left has made the calculation that the demographics are in its favor of it ignores, or outright expresses hatred for, Jews. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are exhibits A and B. The right has also made it clear that it will accept Jew haters as long as they agree with them ideologically. Lastly, the Jewish community, with the critical exception of Chabad, as totally failed to educate the last three generations, and has replaced genuine Jewish knowledge with its version of liberalism (which is actually leftism, and almost always at odds with actual Judaism). We also need more articles like this one, and Jewish organizations with some actual courage.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Nation’s Top Law Firms Fund Anti-Semitic Campus Groups at Berkeley

A host of the nation’s premier law firms are financially supporting organizations at Berkeley Law School that are accused of fostering anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel, according to a campus watchdog group.

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

S.C. Dem House hopeful wants to ‘be VERY clear’ about holding Jews accountable for ‘their LONG history of anti-blackness

"David Duke would be proud."

WHEN do people start admitting that a HUGE number of blacks are Jew hating bigots and racists?

News | News

Candace Owens defends Kanye, says tweet about Jews wasn't antisemitic

Owens defended Kanye West on an episode of her political talk show, saying that "honest people" knew that he wasn't actually being antisemitic.

I’ve ALWAYS thought that she is a complete fraud. He clearly meant that he wanted there to be some kind of violent reaction against Jews because of what one person, in his view, had done. Blaming all Jews for the actions of one Jew is antisemitic all by itself, no matter what her idiotic justification of his comments is.

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

Obama Judge Denies NY Jews a Temporary Stop of Hochul’s Ban On Guns In Synagogues

The new fold in this rights-trapping box comes on the heels of Hochul literally celebrating the courage of Holocaust survivors -- the same group that was stripped of the right to keep and bear arms in Nazi Germany.

Democrats are not supporters of the Jewish community, how much antisemitism and constant refusal to allow Jews to protect ourselves here and in Israel, does it take to wake people up?

Miscellaneous | Chabad

No Barriers Before G-d: A Look at Chabad’s Dues-Free Communities

Yom Kippur will see record attendance this year at Chabad synagogues, where every Jew is a member

Miscellaneous | Chabad

Florida Chabad Rabbi and Son Rescue Orlando Family by Boat

The devastation caused by Hurricane Ian has extended far beyond Florida’s Gulf Coast. When Rabbi Yosef Konikov of Chabad-Lubavitch of South Orlando learned that a family of four was trapped on the second floor of their home in Kissimmee, just south of Orlando, and calls to 911 were not being responded to due to more urgent and immediate threats to life, the rabbi and his son Levi, a certified lifeguard, commissioned a boat and set out along flooded neighborhood streets to rescue the family.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

As Hurricane Ian Crashes Into Florida’s Gulf Coast, Chabad Rushes to Help

Category 4 storm expected to cause catastrophic flooding and damage

Chabad is always there to help when you need them!

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

Orthodox Jewish leaders barred from White House hate crime summit, despite being most frequent targets of hate crimes against Jews

'They used our DNA of Jews being persecuted ... as an excuse to make an event': Orthodox Jewish leaders claim White House barred them from hate crime summit

Orthodox Jews are BY FAR the most common targets of violent attacks. But, they voted for Trump, and are religious, so this White House hates them.

History | HISTORY

PBS Holocaust documentary perpetuates well-worn myths to glorify FDR, says historian

Streaming this week, historian Rafael Medoff says 'The U.S. and the Holocaust' misrepresents President Roosevelt’s actions leading up to and during the genocide

So Burns just lied…

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Queen Elizabeth II and the Jews

Six facts about the monarch’s tumultuous relationship with Jews, on the occasion of her Platinum Jubilee.

It’s easy to pay homage and respect to Holocaust survivors, only a monster wouldn’t. It is also easy to show respect to the Jewish community when they are your “subjects” (a term which, as an American-I truly despise). However, her family was clearly antisemitic for a very long time, and she refused to visit Israel. So the praise from some quarters of the Jewish community is misguided in my opinion. Yes, her reign was impressive, her behavior during WWII was valiant, and her service to her nation is unprecedented. That said, this family has some clearly antagonistic views toward the Jewish community.

“‘lf. Besides her resolute steadfastness in never visiting (Israel), the Queen also made troubling remarks on an official visit to Jordan in 1984. Shown a map of the disputed West Bank, which has been in Israeli control ever since the Six Day War in 1967, Queen Elizabeth called it “depressing,” and described Israeli planes flying in the West Bank as “frightening.” On that visit, she also laid a wreath at a memorial to Arab soldiers who died attacking Israel.’”

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Education Department Investigates Allegations USC Ignored Anti-Semitic Harassment

The Education Department formally launched an investigation on Tuesday into allegations the University of Southern California (USC) fomented "a hostile environment of anti-Semitism" on its campus that forced a Jewish student government official to resign

I’m not even slightly surprised. I’m a graduate of USC. Even when I attended, antisemitism was rampant, and always tolerated, among staff and students. The various administrations through the years refuse to even speak to Jewish alumni about this issue. If you’re Jewish, or a decent person, do not support this school in any way. Oh, they also take millions from the Saudis. The “USC family” thing is a marketing ploy. The only alumni who benefit from having attended the school are rich, connected, major donors.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

No, Anne Frank did not have ‘white privilege’

Critical Race Theory cannot cope with the Holocaust so it pretends those killed were oppressors

How is it not obvious that Jews don’t have, and have never had, “white privilege” (whatever that is)? The Shoah should have forever ended that question. Yet alas, because people are stupid - it didn’t.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

In the US, some fading Reform and Conservative synagogues go Orthodox to stay afloat

Chabad Hasidic outreach programs reverse decline and bring growth to congregations through a host of programming designed to foster a more traditional community

“In the past 20 years, more than one-third of Conservative synagogues and one out of five Reform synagogues closed, according to a 2020 Pew Research Center study.”

Of course. You can’t tell people for 70 years that Judaism only means “being a good person,” or that it just regency’s whatever their political party is pushing at that moment, without ANY specifically Jewish meaning or obligations, and people will eventually start to feel that their “Judaism” isn’t central to their lives.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Growth of Chicago’s Jewish Communities a Study in Chabad’s Broad Impact

New center in wake of Highland Park shooting part of a heartening trend in the Midwest Jewish metropolis

Chabad is the most important Jewish organization in America. They are an absolutely essential part of American Jewish life.

News | Jewish Community

No, Anne Frank Did Not Have White Privilege And Here's How To Combat Lies Like These

Over the weekend, Anne Frank began trending on Twitter and for the worst reason imaginable: “Anne Frank had white privilege,” began one tweet. “Bad things happen to people with white privilege also but don’t tell the whites that.” “Yes, all white people a

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Hollywood's Jewish tough guy James Caan dies aged 82

Kid from New York who found fame in The Godfather, Rollerball and Misery

I’m going to miss him. I never got to meet him, but for a long time, he has reminded me of my Brooklyn born dad. They were similar types in many ways. He was obviously a great actor, but also a huge supporter of Jewish causes and Israel. They once asked him what he would do if someone asked him to boycott Israel. His response is great, and if anyone ever asks me the same question, this will now be my response:

“Asked in 2016 if anyone had ever suggested he should boycott the country, he replied in characteristically forceful style: ‘They would have gotten punched in the face. No, I don't hang around with antisemites if that's what you mean and I don't know any. And if I did, I'd punch them in the face.’”

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

In the US, some fading Reform and Conservative synagogues go Orthodox to stay afloat

Chabad Hasidic outreach programs reverse decline and bring growth to congregations through a host of programming designed to foster a more traditional community

Good news!

News | NEWS

Judge Declares Yeshiva University ‘Non-Religious’; Forces It to Fully Support Gay Activities

YU responded to the lawsuit by citing its Torah Umadda mission which emphasizes Torah values.

Remember when they claimed that all they wanted was equal rights? Now they’re bashing freedom of religion and forcing this on religiously based schools.

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

What does the BDS movement really stand for?

  As a Pew Research Institute study recently revealed, the overwhelming majority of Americans have little or no idea what

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

White supremacy and the Jews: The latest iteration

Given the anti-Semitic tropes and conspiracy theories that have been used against Jews for centuries, it’s unsurprising that critical race theory (CRT) provides a convenient guise to attack Jews today.

“That was the case in May 2020, when, against a backdrop of legitimate protests against the killing of George Floyd, the local leader of the LA chapter of Black Lives Matter called for “an uprising, a rebellion, a revolt” through Fairfax, an Orthodox Jewish enclave and the oldest Jewish neighborhood in Los Angeles. Businesses were vandalized and some of the area’s synagogues were defaced with spray-painted obscenities and anti-Israel slogans, provoking fear and apprehension among the neighborhood’s Jewish residents and business owners. The leader later explained that the decision to target this neighborhood was “very deliberate” in order “to disrupt spaces of white affluence” so “it’s not just black people who are suffering at the hands of white supremacy.”

By painting a predominantly Jewish community as a bastion of white supremacists, the rioters could deflect and challenge accusations of anti-Semitism against them. In their minds, this was a social-justice battle against white supremacy. Social justice warriors contend that charges of anti-Semitism deflect attention from the real racists, the “white supremacists,” even when those so labeled are the targeted Jews themselves.”

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

How Jewish support for ‘anti-racism’ empowered anti-Semitism

Two years after the moral panic set off by the death of George Floyd, American Jews need to confront the way the BLM movement and the ideologies that underpin it enable hatred of Jews.

Miscellaneous | Judaism

Jews Worldwide to Celebrate Mystical Spring Holiday of Lag BaOmer

Day also marks 41st annual completion of Mishneh Torah and Sefer Hamitzvot

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Lufthansa apologizes after report all visibly Jewish passengers barred from flight

Airline says incident not consistent with its policies or values; videos shows airline supervisor saying all Jews barred from flight because a few hadn’t worn masks

They can stick it. They may as well be flying with swastikas on their tails. NOTHING changes in Europe. Jews need to wake up to that fact. Are all Europeans antisemites? No, but are far too many ok with targeting Jews? Absolutely. But, I guess this is yet another example of “Jewish privilege.”