anti-semitism

A Jewish civil rights organization says its annual tally of antisemitic incidents in the U.S. reached a record high last year

Police and school officials are investigating anti-Semitic graffiti found in bathrooms at a Marblehead elementary school. Superintendent John Buckey confirmed Friday that they were looking at three incidents at the Village Elementary School on three different days in January. In the first two, swastikas were found etched into stalls in bathrooms. The third involved what Buckey called “profane language targeted…

Holocaust survivors and politicians warned about the resurgence of antisemitism and Holocaust denial as the world remembered Nazi atrocities and commemorated the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp

A leader in the Greater Boston Jewish community said he watched in horror Saturday as a hostage situation played out over several hours in Texas. Rabbi Marc Baker said it was a difficult reminder of the state of our nation. “This extremist targeted Jews on the most sacred day of the week. I think we know this was an act…

After four hostages were safely released from a Texas synagogue, the president of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston offered his reaction to the ordeal.

A swastika and a racial slur targeting Jews were found in a bathroom at Mount Holyoke College earlier this week, the third antisemitic incident reported at the prestigious women’s school this fall, the Anti-Defamation League in New England said Thursday. The graffiti, written in black marker on tile, was reported to ADL-New England on Tuesday by a parent of...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Patriots owner Robert Kraft and a number of others attended a Hanukkah celebration and menorah lighting ceremony in Chestnut Hill Thursday evening.

On the second night of Hanukkah, members of the Jewish community in Boston gathered to celebrate the festival of lights, with a renewed fight against anti-Semitism. “We are shining a light on anti-Semitism and coming together to say ‘No, we will not tolerate Jew hatred or any hatred,’” said Marc Baker, CEO of Combined Jewish Philanthropies. A coalition of Jewish…

Members of Boston’s Jewish community gathered to celebrate the second night of Hanukkah and push back against hate.

Students at a middle school in Danvers, Massachusetts, have found anti-Semitic graffiti in a bathroom for the second time in two weeks, officials said Thursday. A swastika symbol — used by the Nazis and by neo-Nazis — was found in a student bathroom at Holten Richmond Middle School on Thursday and reported to school officials, said Danvers School Superintendent Lisa…

Residents of Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood have been finding hateful messages left inside plastic Easter eggs. Sarah, a 27-year-old who lives on Roslindale Avenue, came across a plastic egg in her front yard Monday night. “I found it kind of strange,” she said. She didn’t think much of it at first. “I figured I’d open it, just check it, make...

People in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood have been finding hateful messages inside plastic Easter eggs.

Amr Awadallah, a former Google vice president, recently appeared on the Our Voices Matter Podcast to discuss his firing. Awadallah was fired in the summer after writing a long LinkedIn post discussing his past antisemitic beliefs, which came from his upbringing and he renounced after meeting Jewish people in real life. “His views changed as he got to know people...

An offensive post on the public Facebook page of Worcester’s police union compared the city’s mayor to Hitler after the return of the city’s mask mandate.

While the panel cannot fire Eichhammer, it said it found the photo highly offensive and the demands to fire the officer are valid.

Amid an “alarming” rise in hate crimes, elected officials and members of the Jewish community reflected on the significance of remembrance at the New England Holocaust Memorial Thursday morning in Boston. The event bringing them together was an unveiling of a new website and interactive mobile tour experience at the memorial downtown, but it came at what organizers call a...

Officials released hate-filled excerpts from the journals of the man who gunned down two Black people in Winthrop, Massachusetts, last month.

After Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins released excerpts of the racist, hateful writing of the man who gunned down two Black people in Winthrop, its police chief told reporters that his white supremacist ideology has no place in the town.

The man who killed two people in a shooting rampage in Winthrop, Massachusetts, last month wrote less than two days earlier that “Racism is healthy and natural” in a bigoted, hateful screed revealed by officials Wednesday.

A gunman opened fire in Winthrop, killing two people in what is being investigated as a hate crime.