simmons | March 2, 2017
Email a copy of "Zionism Is a Racist Political Ideology, Says UK Professor Who Chaired Anti-Israel Event" to a friend University College London. Photo: website. A UK professor who moderated a panel that kicked off Israeli Apartheid Week at University College London (UCL) this week toldThe Algemeinerwhy he considers Zionism a racist ideology
simmons | March 2, 2017
The leader of the Anti-Defamation League said President Trump's steps to combat the recent spate of anti-Semitism should include not changing the mission of thecountering violent extremism program to exclude white supremacists. As of Wednesday, 122 bomb threats have been called into 97 Jewish institutions in 36 states and two Canadian provinces. Twelve Jewish day schools have received threats
simmons | March 2, 2017
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richards | March 2, 2017
A window is pictured with the Star of David in a new synagogue in Cottbus, Germany. (photo credit:REUTERS) A regional court in Germany has decided that a brutal attempt to set fire to a local synagogue in 2014 was an act meant to express criticism against Israels conduct in its ongoing conflict with Hamas.
richards | March 2, 2017
Photo: Jon Shapley, Staff A fundraising page to support rebuilding the Islamic Center of Victoria, which was destroyed in a fire, reached more than $1 million by Wednesday afternoon. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle) A fundraising page to support rebuilding the Islamic Center of Victoria, which was destroyed in a fire, reached more than $1 million by Wednesday afternoon. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle) A week before the fire at the Islamic Center of Victoria, a vandal had painted "H8" (shorthand for hate) on the side of the building.
richards | March 2, 2017
Please enable Javascript to watch this video ROCKLIN -- A fire broke out early Saturday morning at a synagogue, located at the Chabad House Jewish Community Center along Douglas Boulevard in Granite Bay. "They came in, they broke into the building, and they put out the fire, and they saved our Torah Scrolls," said Malkie, the JCC's education director.
richards | March 2, 2017
The Adath BNai Israel Temple in Evansville, Indiana. (photo credit:FACEBOOK) A gunshot was fired through a Hebrew school classroom window at an Indiana synagogue. The bullet hole was discovered late Monday at Adath BNai Israel Temple in Evansville.
richards | March 2, 2017
FAIRFAX, VAGrowing increasingly exasperated at his inability to make himself heard, local man Alex Turner told reporters Wednesday that he was frustrated by the fact that he is unable to leave a hateful message for a local synagogue because the line is always tied up with other threats. I make it a point to call every morning, but why bother when you can never get through? said Turner, 38, adding that the line is so swamped by menacing calls that he often has to wait on hold half an hour to tell a synagogue staff member that Jews did not belong in his neighborhood, sometimes having to call back numerous times because he just receives a busy signal.
richards | March 2, 2017
New York Synagogue's Plans for New Building Move Forward Wall Street Journal (subscription) A long-delayed plan to put up a community house and condominium next to a historic synagogue on Central Park West got new life on Tuesday. New York City's Board of Standards and Appeals voted to approve a plan by Congregation Shearith Israel to put ...
richards | March 2, 2017
by Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb March 1, 2017 A well-known joke told about the Jews describes a group of explorers who find a Jew who has been stranded on a desert island for years. As he takes them around the island and shows them how he survived, they find that he built two synagogues for himself.
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