anti-semitism

A school committee member in Lowell, Massachusetts, is under fire after using an anti-Semitic slur on live television. Mayor John Leahy said Wednesday night that he was calling for a joint meeting of the Lowell School Committee and the Lowell City Council, where he would present a motion to demand the resignation of Robert Hoey. “Earlier today, a member of…

The writing of a 10-year-old girl in pre-World War II Poland is at the heart of the first interactive exhibit of an online museum dedicated to telling the stories of the Jewish communities in Eastern Europe and Russia

The deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol was “the most predictable terror attack in the history of the U.S.,” according to the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. Jonathan Greenblatt told LX News his organization, which analyzes and details antisemitic incidents around the nation, had warned government agencies of a likely attack before Jan. 6 and he’s “at a loss to...

As a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol last week clamoring to overturn the result of November’s election, photographs captured a man in the crowd wearing a shirt emblazoned with “Camp Auschwitz,” a reference to the Nazi concentration camp

The Paris prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation to identify the authors of online anti-Semitic comments directed at the runner-up for Miss France 2021

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

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?

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday signed a bill that gives churches, synagogues and other places of worship more power to fight a recent surge in hates crimes and other violence aimed at religious groups being seen nationwide.  The bill adds $1.5 million in funding to the Commonwealth Nonprofit Security Grant Program.  The additional funding, which will be used to…

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed a bill Monday that gives places of worship more power to fight hate crimes.