anti-semitism

The rise of Holocaust deniers on social media platforms has been deeply painful to the elderly survivors of the genocide. These survivors are now taking to Facebook with the hashtag #NoDenyingIt to call on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remove Holocaust deniers from the company’s platforms

The rise of Holocaust deniers on social media platforms has been deeply painful to the elderly survivors of the genocide. These survivors are now taking to Facebook with the hashtag #NoDenyingIt to call on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remove Holocaust deniers from the company’s platforms.

Former NFL offensive lineman Geoff Schwartz, who is Jewish, speaks out on anti-Semitic comments made by NFL star DeSean Jackson and says much of the problem lies with the lack of Jewish players in the NFL.

Nick Cannon has apologized for “hurtful and divisive” anti-Semitic comments that led ViacomCBS to cut ties with the TV host and producer

Pictures of swastikas and other anti-Semitic imagery flooded a Newington temple’s online service Friday. Right now, police are looking to find who created the disturbing, so-called “Zoom bomb” disruption during the Temple Sinai’s Shabbat.   “They put up a caricature of the Jew with a big nose. It was just so upsetting,” said Temple Sinai Rabbi Jeffrey Bennett, describing...

Members of one temple are reeling after an anti-Semitic incident during a Friday night service.

The online retailer Shein has apologized for selling a swastika necklace on its website. Adam Shear, associate professor of religious studies at the University of Pittsburgh, explains the history and changing meaning of the swastika and how ignorance of history and religion may have contributed to what the company called a “gigantic mistake.”

Word to the wise. It’s never a good idea to think you’re quoting Adolf Hitler. It’s a lesson NFL star DeSean Jackson is just learning and it may cost him his job.

American Jews were targets of more anti-Semitic incidents in 2019 than any other year over the past four decades, a surge marked by deadly attacks on a California synagogue, a Jewish grocery store in New Jersey and a rabbi’s New York home, the Anti-Defamation League reported Tuesday.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the coronavirus pandemic keeps unleashing “a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering.”

Dozens of world leaders have descended upon Jerusalem for the largest-ever gathering focused on commemorating the Holocaust and combating modern-day anti-Semitism

In the nearly 30 years since tensions between the African American and Jewish communities exploded in riots in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, Rabbi Eli Cohen and Geoffrey Davis have established a friendship that the recent spate of anti-Semitic attacks has not dinted. The African American, Caribbean American and Jewish communities that share Crown Heights are much closer today…

Jewish congregations opting to deploy armed security personnel in the wake of deadly attacks on synagogues should — if possible — use uniformed law enforcement officers rather than private guards or volunteers from the community, a group of security experts recommended Wednesday....

The advice came in a detailed, first-of-its-kind report compiled by the Secure Community Network in response to questions from...

The man accused of stabbing five people with a machete during a Hanukkah celebration in Monsey last month pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges at his arraignment on Monday. The federal indictment charged Grafton Thomas with five counts each of attempting to kill victims based on their religion and obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs by attempting…

Fake accounts, which claim to be of U.S. rabbis, have been posting messages seemingly geared at pitting Jews against African Americans — but why aren’t social media sites stepping in sooner to stop them?

Thousands of people took to the streets of New York City on Sunday to support the Jewish community amid a spate of anti-Semitic attacks in the tri-state area.  The “No Hate, No Fear Solidarity March” kicked off in Foley Square at 11 a.m. Participants marched across the Brooklyn Bridge and were expected to end up in Brooklyn’s Cadman Plaza...

Five people stabbed during a Hanukkah celebration in Monsey, New York. Four killed in a shooting at a Jersey City grocery store. A Brooklyn woman hit in the head as she walked with her child. The rash of anti-Semitic attacks gripping the New York-New Jersey area may feel like chilling coincidences, but statistics show they’re part of a wave of anti-Semitic violence that has...

For years, ultra-Orthodox Jewish families pushed out of increasingly expensive Brooklyn neighborhoods have been turning to the suburbs, where they have taken advantage of open space and cheaper housing to establish modern-day versions of the European shtetls where their ancestors lived for centuries before the Holocaust.

On the final night of Hanukkah, police in Monsey, New York, stood guard outside the home of Rabbi Rottenberg after an alleged attacker walked inside his residence and stabbed five people the evening before.

Multiple people were stabbed at the home of a rabbi in Monsey, New York, Saturday