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Jewish World Mourns Passing of Renowned Talmudic Scholar Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

The late Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. Photo: steinsaltz-center.org. The Jewish world was in mourning on Friday following the death of Rabbi …

I can't over estimate how important Rabbi Steinsaltz was to the Jewish world. He was the first person since the 11th century to significantly make the Talmud more accessible to the masses. He was a genius. A massive intellect.

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

Linda Sarsour’s Pal Wins Democratic Nomination in Missouri Primary

So, Israel has lost another friend in Congress.

We need to ask the question of why so many black, female antisemites are elected to Congress, or the Dems push for seats (and that includes other “women of color”)? That cannot be a coincidence. I think it’s a concerted effort to give the Dems intersectional credibility on the back of the Jewish community. The question of why there are SO MANY black antisemites also needs to be answered.

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

Nancy Pelosi Stands with the Anti-Semites

Last Wednesday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi endorsed Rep. Rashida Tlaib in her August 4 Michigan Democratic primary rematch with Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones, whom Tlaib narrowly defeated in 2018. 

Similarly, for the Augu...

“What is Pelosi's motivation in supporting them? Is it identity politics? In Omar's race, Pelosi had the option of endorsing her progressive African-American opponent, who opposes the Boycott-Divest-Sanction (BDS) campaign to isolate and destroy Israel. In Tlaib's race, where opponent Brenda Jones is a staunch ally of Rev. Louis Farrakhan, Pelosi had the option of staying neutral.”

Politics | Opinion

Larry Levine - Black Lives Matter (except if you are black)

Larry Levine – Black Lives Matter (except if you are black) Pretty catchy logo, BLM, and I like the extra added touch of the fist thing.  Since I am in the t-shirt biz, I can appreciate good marketing. If you are a corporation and want to look goo

News | Jewish Community

Advice to Jewish celebs: Grow up!

They’re mad at their parents for being pro-Israel, so they take it out on the rest of us, battering the Jewish world with their incessant whining.

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Celebrity Antisemites Can’t Be Absolved Through Private Apologies

Ice Cube in 2012. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Recently, Mort Klein of the ZOA engaged Ice Cube in a two-hour conversation …

Miscellaneous | Chabad

From Catholic Italian to Jewish Rabbi: David Martinetti Shares His Story - Contemporary Voices

The rabbi walked toward me with a smile, extended his hand warmly, and offered me my first Jewish greeting: ‘Shalom.’ I froze, completely overwhelmed.

News | Antisemitism Watch

You can’t get cancelled for anti-Semitism, but you can for philosemitism

A people with dignity is able to stop chasing affections of enemies, and accept affection of friends even if they aren’t trendy enough.

Sad but true:

“If American Jewish organizations had put in a fraction of the effort trying to save Jews from the Holocaust that they did battling for admission to country clubs, fewer Holocaust museums would be needed.”

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Why Seth Rogen’s Anti-Israel Rant Matters

Seth Rogan told Marc Maron that support for Israel is outdated thinking. His opinion rests on a deep ignorance of the history of Israel and the Jewish people.

Seth Rogan’s total ignorance is typical of what results form the typical non-religious Jewish “education” in the United States. I know that because I grew up in that world. To put it in secular terms, it would be like if we took the comments of someone who has a kindergarten education seriously who was speaking about physics. Rogan (obviously) knows NOTHING. Which explains the entire generation of American, progressive, millennials with similar views about Israel. They know even less than even my anemically Jewishly educated generation.

This article makes that case incredibly well.

Miscellaneous | Jewish Life

18 Tisha B'Av Facts Every Jew Should Know

Tisha B’Av, the 9th day of Av, is the saddest day on the Jewish calendar.

News | News

Wiley permanently suspended by Twitter over anti-Semitism

Twitter was accused of inaction and delay over anti-Semitic remarks posted by the music star.

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

Brooklyn’s Anti-Gentrication Groups are Pushing Antisemitic Narratives and Activism

With a a few notable exceptions, the Jewish community appears unaware of the significance and relevance of these groups.

Miscellaneous | Judaism

Preparing for Tisha B’Av During a World Pandemic - A 25-hour period of fasting and reflection begins on Wednesday night,

Every year, Jews around the world don non-leather shoes, and make their way to synagogues and Chabad centers for evening services, followed by the mournful reading of Eichah (the book of Lamentations), the slim volume in which the prophet Jeremiah mourns the impending destruction

News | Antisemitism Watch

HonestReporting Joins Blackout After Barrage of Twitter Antisemitism | HonestReporting

  HonestReporting is joining a widespread 48-hour Twitter ‘blackout’ after the musician known as Wiley was allowed to tweet incitement against Jews

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UK chief rabbi accuses Facebook and Twitter of 'complicity' in anti-Semitism

At start of 2-day social media boycott, Ephraim Mirvis lambastes social media platforms for failing to remove posts inciting hatred and violence against Jews

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The sixth attack on Jews in a week. Orthodox man bashed in Brooklyn hate crime attack: NYPD - New York Daily News

The Orthodox man was attacked after one of the men in the SUV yelled something at him, and the victim in turn flipped them the bird, cops said.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Couple Who Wore Face Masks Bearing the Nazi Flag Swears They Aren't Nazis

Despite the months of pundits and reporters arguing that wearing a face mask shouldn’t be a political statement, there’s a select few assholes who think taking basic measures to keep the current global pandemic from raging on is an affront to their civil

Both sides continue to co-opt Nazi imagery and the Shoah for their own political goals. That needs to stop. The only think it accomplishes is to lessen to real horror of Nazi Germany.

Politics | Opinion

Elder Of Ziyon - Rabbi Abraham Cooper missed his opportunity as a guest with @NickCannon

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I have A LOT of respect for Rabbi Cooper, but I agree. This was a missed opportunity and we have to be more courageous in dealing with the growing problem of black antisemitism.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Retired NBA great Charles Barkley calls out Black celebrities for anti-Semitism

'Y’all want racial equality. We all do. I don’t understand how insulting another group helps our cause,' he says after several athletes, stars post anti-Jewish conspiracy theories

Great. That’s two people out of all current and former NBA, and NFL players.

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

The Alignment of BDS and Black Lives Matter: Implications for Israel and Diaspora Jewry

This new radical discourse demands that American Jews be neither liberal nor progressive. - The Alignment of BDS and Black Lives Matter: Implications for Israel and Diaspora Jewry - Dan Diker

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You Know The Talk Black Parents Have With Their Sons; You Never Heard Of The One Jews Have

Jew In The City makes engaging and meaningful Orthodox Judaism known and accessible to Jewish people, reversing negative associations about religious Jews.

Yes, yes and yes. This is exactly correct. As antisemitism has risen, I’ve been told more frequently than ever before that I “don’t understand” what minorities go through, because of my “white (or male) privilege.” That’s absolutely crazy, and I mean that literally, when the person you are talking to is Jewish.

We are the minority of minorities. We have been a minority everywhere we’ve been for millennia. Only since 1948 do we have a home. And we suffer everywhere we go. No matter how good a place is, how comfortable, how much we can thrive, each place always turns into a place of suffering for us. That isn’t melodrama: it’s history. So yes. We do have a talk too. Our talk is to remind our children that we are strangers and to live as Jews, means always being different. Personally, I am 100% ok with that. Like all Jews though, I’ve experienced what that means. Especially lately. I saw this originally on Facebook. The author calls herself “Jew in the City” and I highly recommend following her. I would love to have her on Moptu. However, the comments on this article were heartbreaking. Jews all over the United States are removing mezuzahs from their homes, they are scared to wear a Magen David (Star of David), take their kippahs off in public. The kind of stuff that everyone in the late 20th century was sure had been related to the last. But history teaches us that, when you’re Jewish, NOTHING is related to the past.

“I realized recently, with the uptick in antisemitic attacks and anti-Jewish content being shared online, and the tepid response the world has to it (despite being outraged when any other minority is mistreated), that many gentiles don’t understand the Jewish experience well enough. And perhaps it’s because we haven’t properly explained what it’s like to be a Jew.

“The confusion seems to be how Jews could be considered a minority and protected from hate speech when we seem to be doing pretty well. I recently touched on this issue when I wrote about the DeSean Jackson antisemitism scandal. I explained to a Black man I was speaking with that the lack of privilege that Jews have today is not in our skin color or our education or socioeconomic status – it’s in our security – or lack there of.


People may not realize this, but as Jews, we live with the constant anxiety and fear that we or one our loved ones could be subjected to a random antisemitic attack at any time, as well as the notion that while the U.S. has been a safe and gracious home for us for hundreds of years, one day, yet again, the tides will turn and we’ll have to flee.”

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

The Reality of “My Jewish Privilege”

Yesterday, antisemites on Twitter started a hashtag called #JewishPrivilege about how Jews have it made. Jews (including myself) responded with stories of awful things that have happened to them or their families as a result of being Jewish

I can personally relate to every point in this article. From overt antisemitism to having to explain why I can’t eat the pepperoni pizza that my bosses brought in for everyone at work to eat, being a Jew means always being aware that you are different. The idea that we are just like everyone else in terms of the way we experience America, and everywhere else in the world outside of Israel, is totally absurd to any of us who have lived even a minimally connected Jewish life.

News | Jewish Community

From Cambodian Princess to Shabbat Queen - The story of Susie (Sarah Bracha) Koroghli

When the story broke that the daughter of a Cambodian princess was celebrating her bat mitzvah in Phnom Penh, the Jewish world wondered: Who is this Cambodian princess, and how did she become Jewish? Here is the story of Susie (Sarah Bracha) Koroghli, gra

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

NFL's Zach Banner calls to embrace Jewish community after anti-Semitism uproar

Steelers tackle says Jews 'are a minority as well,' recounts 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, after Philadelphia player posts anti-Jewish quotes online

Banner is an honorable, and wise, man. I wish there were more people like him. How do the majority of Americans not undertand his points, all of which used to be common knowledge? Except among bigots. Their ignorance is now the norm.

“There’s a common misbelief that among Black and Brown people — and I know this from growing up and I’ve heard it and I’ve listened to it — that Jewish people are just like any other white race,” Banner said. “You mix them up with the rest of the majority and you don’t understand that they are a minority as well.”

News | News

Jews aren’t indigenous to Israel? According to whom? Some in the Reform movement.

There are a lot of things wrong with woke culture. While the impulse to demonstrate solidarity with the oppressed and

At this point the leaders of the liberal Jewish movements are aiding the enemies of the Israel and the Jewish people. They are traitors.


“To the non-woke, that is an obvious and self-evident fact. But to Rabbi Andy, it's an offensive act of "appropriation" on the part of reactionary Jews. As he wrote:

"Let me say this as plainly as possible: Jews are not an indigenous people. It is appropriative to make use of this word when referring to our relationship to the land of Israel, and it undermines the difficult work being done to fix the ongoing oppression of indigenous peoples."

News | Antisemitism Watch

Jewish Actor Josh Malina Asks Why 'Cancel Culture' Ignores Antisemitism

Josh Malina. Photo: Instagram. Jewish actor and “West Wing” star Josh Malina advocated on Tuesday for the withdrawal of support …

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Is Wokeness Awakening Antisemitism? | HonestReporting

  Over the last few years it seems as if an entire generation has become 'woke.' This is a term that describes a growing awareness of issues related

News | Antisemitism Watch

Anti-Jewish crime in NYC dwarfs anti-Black crime

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Yet no marches, no social media blackouts, no slogans painted in the streets, no corporate statements, no political movements based around it, and no outrage from the vast majority of Americans. Because most people today aren’t “fighting racism,” they are exploiting it.

Politics | Campus Watch

New Report Reveals Increased Campus Anti-Zionist Activism Linked to Rise in Harassment of Jewish Students

A mock Israeli checkpoint set up during a past ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’ at the University of California at Los Angeles …

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

Why is the ADL aligning itself with Al Sharpton?

Not only a disservice to the Jewish community; but  a slap in the face to the African American community as well. Opinion.

News | Jewish Community

A Young Man With Autism’s Unexpected Gift to Friendship Circle

Secondhand boutique in North Carolina gets a boost from a grateful employee

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

'Intrinsically tied to Black Lives Matter': Harvard student leads anti-Israel march on Capitol

Washington, D.C. ⁠— Protesters on Wednesday marched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol building in a demonstration intended to tie the cause of Black Lives Matter to the Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment movement against Israel.

BLM Is openly antisemitic. So you can’t support them and be “anti-racism.” Period.

Politics | BDS

Portland Jewish Federation unwilling to denounce BDS

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The Jewish Federation FINALLY admitted that they are not a Jewish organization, but a non-profit that exists to act as a mouthpiece for whatever the Democrat position of the moment happens to be. They dupe their donors into believing that they actually exist for the American Jewish community. They don’t. I am speaking from personal experience. They are cowards, leftists, and elitists should exploit a few Jewish causes to continue to receive donations.

News | Antisemitism Watch

America: “Day of Rage” rallies support violence and terror

Some scenes from yesterday’s “Day of Rage” rallies across America that glorified and incited to violence.

“In San Francisco, the crowd was told that of course Palestinians can murder Jews to protect “their land,” just as a mother can protect her children.”

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Demonstrators Scream ‘Slaughter the Jews’ at Brussels Rally

"Yes of course, we only hear that: religion of peace. But everything that has been happening for years in the world proves the opposite."

Politics | POLITICS

The ADL’s Disgrace

It’s hard to think of a more prominent anti-Semite in American public life over the last 30 years than the Rev. Al Sharpton.

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BDS groups plan anti-annexation ‘Day of Rage’ across the US

"We demand the defunding and dismantling of US police alongside the defunding and dismantling of Zionist colonialism and racist Israeli apartheid."

News | Antisemitism Watch

Anti-Semitism gets you fired by Labour, but hired by NYT

It turns out The New York Times has lower standards when it comes to those who spread anti-Semitic canards than even Britain’s

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Fox SOUL TV, by assuming blacks are OK with Farrakhan’s antisemitism, is racist.

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Swastika sign found on Ohio couple’s pizza, employees fired

What was meant to be a simple stop for pizza at an Ohio Little Ceasar’s turned out to be anything but when the couple found an offensive message inside the box.

But of course there will be no national outrage. This won’t be the main story in the national news that dominates the news cycle 24 hours a day. Because the level of outrage at various types of bigotry is determined (by most Americans) by their political value.

Politics | Politics

The link between George Orwell, George Floyd and the Jews

Anybody who believes that the goal of the protesters has been to raise consciousness about the unfair treatment of blacks is missing the point and the bigger picture.

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

College Stands by Student Leader Who Claimed Jews 'Worship' WW2

The Pomona College senior class president has received little condemnation for reposting a vulgar, anti-Semitic Instagram story claiming Jewish people "hate brown [people]" and "worship" World War II. She also compared the war in Yemen to the Holocaust. R

News | Jewish Community

Belgian ban on kosher slaughter sends message 'Jews are not welcome'

Belgium curbing religious freedom with ban on kosher slaughter, top European rabbi Says.

Europe is getting worse and worse.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Jews Most Targeted Group for Hate Crimes in Toronto Area, New Data Shows

The Toronto skyline. Photo: John Vetterli via Wikimedia Commons. Newly-published police data showed that Jews were the most targeted group …

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

A Farrakhan Supporter Led the LA Black Lives Matter Rally That Became a Pogrom | Frontpagemag

"F___ the police and kill the Jews."

News | Antisemitism Watch

Chelsea Handler deletes video clip of Louis Farrakhan that included her defense of his anti-Semitism

The Jewish comedian was criticized on social media after writing that "perhaps Farrakhan's anti-Semitic views took form during his own oppression."

She even defended Farrakhan:

“Handler wrote: “Another thing: perhaps Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic views took form during his own oppression. We know now that oppression of one race leads to an oppression of all races.”

This is the typical progressive narrative that blacks can’t be racists because they were oppressed. That’s absurd on its own, twice as absurd when it’s directed at Jews.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Chelsea Handler Calls Farrakhan Video ‘Powerful’

Actress Chelsea Handler shared a video of Louis Farrakhan discussing racism on her Instagram page on June 14 and called it “powerful.”

News | Antisemitism Watch

The Arab American Plan to Defeat America's Jews

The Arab American Institute outlined a plan to undermine pro-Israel support in America — and it worked Around 1990, James Zogby, president of the Arab American

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

RESIST de Blasio: Orthodox Jews 'Liberate' NYC Playground in Provocative Move

Just one day after a Jewish NYC lawmaker promised to “cut off the chains” to reopen the city’s playgrounds, three members of an informal #RESIST group did just that.

Miscellaneous | Diaspora

Orthodox Jews sue de Blasio, Cuomo for discrimination over lockdown rules

The plaintiffs, along with two Catholic priests, accused the officials of "blatant double standards" in their enforcement of social distancing orders.

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

‘The man is deranged’: Video from Brooklyn showing ‘gates to a Jewish park welded shut to enforce social distancing’ earns Bill de Blasio even MORE contempt

"Maybe it's time for that federal civil rights investigation after all."

Protests: no problem. Jewish mothers taking their kids to the park: he can’t allow that.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Elder Of Ziyon - Isn’t it racist to obsess over Jews’ “whiteness”?

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News | Israel/Jewish Community

Trump increases his support for Israel to unprecedented levels

After threats comes action: Years of American warnings about the International Criminal Court's continued probes prompted US President Donald Trump

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

As Chaos Erupted During George Floyd Protests in Los Angeles, Local Jewish Security Group Mobilized to Protect Community

Magen Am’s Yossi Eilfort, far right, with national guardsmen on patrol in Los Angeles. As unrest, violence, and rampant looting …

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

How calling people ‘White Jews’ became an insidious slander

The debate over whether Jews are “white” has a long history in the US. Books and researchers have looked at how Jews fit into America’s history of racial classification.

This is a pretty good piece. But the author leaves out to key factors. 1. Part of the “white Jews” slander is to deny the connection of Ashkenazim to the Jewish State. And 2. To divide the Jewish people along racial lines that have never existed in our 3,500 year history. Younger Jews are especially prone to believe the idea that “white” Jews, meaning Ashkenazim, have some kind of communal guilt as whites. It’s absurd and also tends to make them view “Jews of color” as the other instead of what they are: our fellow Jews. There is no color line in Judaism. Our values and history are shared. They bind us as one nation. That unity, across time and across the globe, makes us incredibly strong for a people that represents a tiny minority. Those ties are exactly what some people are trying to weaken.

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

Ice Cube is Tweeting Anti-Semitic Images and Russian Propaganda

Rapper Ice Cube has been sharing anti-Semitic images and Russian propaganda on Twitter recently. See the problematic posts here.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

LA Rabbi: Black Lives Matter Pogrom Was Like Kristalnacht

While some LA synagogues are shamefully pandering to Black Lives Matter, one Rabbi is telling the truth about the BLM pogrom.

I think calling it a “pogrom” is a little strong. I would use that word to refer to Monsey, Pittsburgh or Poway. I agree totally with everything else. BLM is an antisemitic organization. It has nothing to do with black lives. It’s values encourage hatred and targeting of Jews and that’s exactly what we’re seeing.

Politics | BDS

Outrage After Far-Left Pro-BDS Group Ties Israel to Minneapolis Police Violence

Protesters gather at the scene where George Floyd, an unarmed black man, was pinned down by a police officer kneeling …

The Democratic Socialists of America is the party of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. At this point, supporting Democrats is literally supporting the enemies of the Jewish people. What will it take for liberal Jews to wake up? Is the full support of the Democratic Party of Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Ocasio-Cortez not enough to make them realize that this party has become the ideological descendants of actual Nazis. The policies of BDS/Palestinian causes was literally passed from Hitler, to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, to the PLO, to today’s left. How much do they have to want to murder you before you admit to yourselves that it’s over for the Democratic Party and if things continue this way, it will be over for Jews in America.

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

Antisemite Of The Week: Al Sharpton, Not a Racist Just a Jew Hater

Al Sharpton is an American "civil rights activist," Baptist minister, talk show host and failed politician. In July 1991, a controversy erupted when Leonard Jeffries, a professor at New York’s City College accused “rich Jews” of financing the slave

Politics | Leftists & Antisemitism

De Blasio Condemned Jewish Funeral but Attended George Floyd Memorial with Thousands of People

Mayor de Blasio was booed at the event, which drew far more people than the 2,500-strong Jewish funeral in April.

Remember how outraged people were when Jews went to a funeral? All of the leftists claimed that it was because they were concerned about safety. They definitely were not antisemitic. So they said. De Blasio is a sack of bigoted crap. It couldn’t be more obvious.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Riots result in 'huge damage' to Jewish temples and businesses in Los Angeles

The riots in the US over the death of George Floyd, an African American who was in police custody, have

“All Jewish businesses and temples in the area were either broken into or had graffiti tagged on their walls," says Jewish shop owner in area with many Jewish residents.

Los Angeles Jewish community has been hit hard.

One business sustained ~$100,000 of damage.

Stop casually dismissing these cases as “just material.”

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Synagogue Defaced With Antisemitic Graffiti Amid Los Angeles Riots; Security Guards Fend Off Vandals From Second Temple

Antisemitic graffiti on the Beth Israel synagogue in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles following violent protests, May 30, 2020. …

Of course they did. BLM is inherently antisemitic and riots ALWAYS end up targeting Jews.

News | Antisemitism Watch

Los Angeles: Synagogue vandalized during riots over George Floyd's death

Anti-Israel graffiti found on one of Los Angeles' oldest synagogues on the same day as mass protests over police killing of man in custody.

Of course this happened. BLM are antisemitic, domestic terrorists.

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

Orthodox Jews Are Half of Covid-19 Plasma Donors, Doctor Tells New York Times

Menashe Sadik, of Baltimore, Md., reads scripture while donating blood at the Blood Bank of Delmarva. Photo: Damian Giletto / …

It would be nice if stories like this had the same coverage as negative stories. Not a word from De Blasio of course. But he’s not antisemitic, right?

News | Jewish Community

As Officials Ease Coronavirus Restrictions, Synagogues Show Caution - Going beyond the letter of the law to protect life

A sign attached to the padlocked door of the Shas Chevra Lubavitch synagogue in Budapest, Hungary, reads: “To fulfill the mitzvah of ‘you shall guard your lives very well,’ the synagogue is closed. Everyone is requested to pray individually at home.” (Photo: Alef/Vamos)

News | Antisemitism Watch

2 arrested for allegedly ripping face masks off Jews in Brooklyn

The incidents took place in the WIlliamsburg neighborhood.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

De Blasio is stoking anti-Semitism. He’s not alone. – The Forward

Mayor DeBlasio should be ashamed. But the rest of us need to take a long hard look at ourselves, too.

I’m not a big fan of The Forward. But this is spot on.

Politics | Opinion

Elder Of Ziyon - The problem with how world media treats Jews and Israel (Seth Mandel and Stephen Daisley)

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News | Antisemitism Watch

Number of Antisemitic Incidents in Canada Hits Record High for Fourth Straight Year

A view of Toronto, which is home to Canada’s largest Jewish community. Photo: John Vetterli via Wikimedia Commons. The number …

Is anyone else surprised that North America’s liberal “paradise” is becoming increasingly hostile to Jews?

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

NYC Democrat Mayor Bill De Blasio Singles Out ‘Jewish Community’ In Threatening Arrests Over Social Distancing

New York City Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio faced instant and widespread backlash late on Monday night over a tweet that singled out the “Jewish community” in threatening arrests for not following social distancing guidelines. De Blasio tweete

This is OUTRAGEOUS. He has been singling out the Jewish community since the beginning. I know, first hand, that the Hasidic community in Brooklyn has been taking this VERY seriously from before the time that De Blasio was still encouraging people to go to movies. The man never closed down the subway and just started to require masks in the subway last week. But by all means: blame the Jews. Would be make similar comments about ANY other minority? Of course not. Never. Blaming Jews for “plagues” is an antisemitic tactic that dates to medieval times. HOW are people not outraged by this no matter their political affiliation?

Miscellaneous | Chabad

Decades Before Zoom, The Rebbe Used Interactive Video to Connect the World

In 1989, the “Chanukah Live” program showed that satellite technology can advance connectedness, peace and unity

Miscellaneous | Jewish Life

04/22 Links Pt2: Sermons in Solitude: Jews of Faith Are Never Alone; Let us remember what the survivors are unable to forget; Israeli Police Publicly Salute Holocaust Survivors Confined to Their Homes Due to Coronavirus Pandemic

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News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Worldwide population of 14.7 million Jews falls short of pre-war numbers

World Jewry reached a population of 16.6 million right before the start of World War II in 1939.

Miscellaneous | Jewish Life

Remembering the Holocaust in a post-'sacred survival' era

For several decades, the Holocaust shaped the way American Jews thought about their place in the modern world. For the

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

Coronavirus, Blacks, and Black-Hats — a Classic New York Times Double Standard

Ultra-Orthodox Jews. Photo: Wikicommons. Let’s take a look at a side-by-side comparison of two New York Times news articles about …

Miscellaneous | Diaspora

Morocco's Tiny Jewish Community Hit Hard by Coronavirus, With 11 Dead

A general view shows an empty street following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Casablanca, Morocco, March 20, …

This is SO sad.

News | News

Rivlin: Passover reminds us that the Jewish people are all one family

'This is our story, our anchor, what binds us together – even when we need to be apart.'

We need more of this. We are one family. It’s nice that Rivlin used Pesach to remind us of that.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Crown Heights: A Jewish Community Under Attack From Coronavirus

Kindness abounds from behind closed doors, even though its streets are silent

I’ve spent a lot of time in Crown Heights and have lots of friends there. They are some of the best people I have ever known. This breaks my heart.

Miscellaneous | Chabad

A Perfectly F.R.E.E. Passover Food Distribution Moves Outdoors in Brooklyn for Inner-City Seniors Especially Vulnerable to Pandemic

Organizers and volunteers for F.R.E.E. moved the annual Passover food distribution from the Warbasse Jewish Heritage Congregation to an outside location in order to accommodate social distancing during the current coronavirus crisis. A volunteer warns seniors to keep their distance when picking up the food.
Organizers and volunteers for F.R.E.E. moved the annual Passover food distribution from the Warbasse Jewish Heritage Congregation to an outside location in order to accommodate social distancing during the current coronavirus crisis. A volunteer warns seniors to keep their distance when picking up the food.
Every year, Ellen Mandelbaum helps distribute Passover goods for needy Jewish families in South Brooklyn, N.Y. It’s a practice she started with the first distribution nine years ago.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Anti-Semitism and Israel Advocacy Matters Even More During Coronavirus

There’s no doubt that anti-Semites and Israel detractors haven’t gone away simply because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Like the coronavirus, they, too, have

News | JEWISH COMMUNITY

New Jersey Man in Custody for Threatening to Beat Up Orthodox Jews Over Coronavirus Distancing

Anthony Lodespoto was arrested for allegedly threatening Orthodox Jews in Lakewood, New Jersey, over coronavirus distancing. Photo: Ocean County Jail. …

Miscellaneous | Passover

How to Cook for Passover with No Specialty Ingredients - Tips & Recipes for Coronavirus Cooking

There’s no question that Passover this year looks very different from usual for most of us.

Miscellaneous | Passover

Coronavirus Nixed Your Seder Plans? - These FAQs Are for You

with coronavirus curtailing travel plans and social
interactions, many are facing the prospect of celebrating Passover alone. Here's what you need to know.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

Manhattan D.A. Prosecuted Just 21 Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes in Past Decade

Records from the Manhattan district attorney's office indicate D.A. Cyrus Vance prosecuted just 13 individuals for anti-Semitic hate crimes between 2017 and 2019, less than half of those arrested in his jurisdiction during that time and a bare 6 percent o

“These new data raise questions about the seriousness with which the Manhattan D.A. office has taken anti-Semitism in its jurisdiction.” Obviously. The truth is that no one takes antisemitism seriously. The hypocrisy surrounding the issue is massive.

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America’s Largest Population of Holocaust Survivors Is Endangered by the Coronavirus as Crown Heights and Borough Park Shut Down

The pandemic inflicts miseries that are particular to each place it visits

Heartbreaking. I’ve spent a lot of time in these neighborhoods, especially Crown Heights. It is one of the most lively neighborhoods, with some of the best people, in the United States.