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Biden Plan To Combat Antisemitism Demands Reforms Across the Executive Branch and Beyond
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden unveiled a multifaceted and broad strategy to combat antisemitism in the United States that reaches from basketball courts to farming communities, from college campuses to police departments. “We must say clearly and forcefully that antisemitism and all forms of hate and violence have no place in America,” Biden said…
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Ceasefire Ends Israel-Gaza Conflict After Five Days of Fighting
By Ben Sales (JTA) — Fighting between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza ended after five days, as a ceasefire took effect and appeared to hold late Saturday night. Over the course of the fighting, 33 Palestinians were killed in Gaza, including civilians and combatants. Two civilians were killed in Israel — a woman…
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ADL Audit Finds Disturbing Increase in Antisemitic Incidents Reported in North Carolina in 2022
Washington, D.C., March 23, 2023 ADL’s (the Anti-Defamation League) annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, released today, shows disturbing levels of antisemitic incidents reported in North Carolina, with a 30 percent increase in 2022. Nationally, antisemitic incidents in 2022 surged to the highest levels ever recorded, with a total of 3,697 incidents of assault, harassment and…
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Holocaust Novel By Jodi Picoult Removed as Florida School District Purges Libraries To Comply With State Law
By Andrew Lapin March 14, 2023 (JTA) A Holocaust-themed novel by bestselling author Jodi Picoult was among dozens of books removed from a South Florida school district library’s circulation last month, in the latest example of books with Jewish themes getting swept up amid a larger conservative-led effort to police potentially inappropriate material in classrooms.…
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13-Year-Old Palestinian Shoots 2 in Jerusalem as Violence Flares and Government Flexes
By Ron Kampeas January, 29, 2023 (JTA) — A 13-year-old Palestinian boy shot and wounded an Israeli man and his son outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls, police said, in one of multiple incidents over the weekend during the latest incident in an escalation of Israeli-Palestinian violence. The shooting took place in the City of David…
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At Least 8 Dead in Shabbat Shooting Attack on Jerusalem Synagogue
Ron Kampeas This is a developing story. (JTA) January 27, 2023 A shooting attack on a synagogue in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Neve Yaakov killed at least eight people on Friday, a day after an Israeli raid on a West Bank city ignited vows of retaliation by Palestinian militant groups. The attack took place Friday…
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Volodymyr Zelensky Named Time’s “Person of the Year”
(JTA) December 8, 2022 — Volodymyr Zelensky, the Jewish president of Ukraine, was named Time’s “person of the year” on Wednesday for galvanizing “the world in a way we haven’t seen in decades,” in the words of the magazine’s editor-in-chief. “From his first 40-second Instagram post on Feb. 25 — showing that his Cabinet and…
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‘Silence Is Complicity’: Biden Calls on Political Leaders to Denounce Antisemitism, Not Platform It
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) December 2, 2022 — President Joe Biden, reacting after the latest station in Kanye West’s dolorous journey, explained that Hitler was bad and the Holocaust was real and chided politicians like his predecessor Donald Trump who give the rapper’s antisemitism oxygen. “I just want to make a few things clear:…
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A Jewish Group’s Tip Led to Arrest of Suspects Who Wanted to “Shoot up a Synagogue”
By Jacob Henry (New York Jewish Week) November 21, 2022 — A tip from a Jewish security organization helped lead to the arrest of two suspects Saturday in connection with online threats to attack a New York City synagogue. The Community Security Initiative, a group created by UJA-Federation of New York and its affiliated Jewish…
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