simmons | March 3, 2017
The chairman of the Community Security Trust has delivered a devastating assessment of Jeremy Corbyns approach to anti-Semitic anti-Zionism suggesting he is more likely to join in than oppose it. Gerald Ronsons comments in front of an audience including deputy leader Tom Watson and new Met Commissioner Cressida Dick are perhaps the strongest condemnation yet from a senior community leader in such a forum. He told the CST annual dinner: I dont doubt that the Labour leader opposes anti-Semitism when it comes from Nazis but when it comes dressed up as anti-Zionism he is more likely to ask if he can join in.
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simmons | March 3, 2017
Evan Bernstein, the Anti-Defamation Leagues New York Regional director, speaking during a news conference at the ADL national headquarters in New York City, March 3, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) NEW YORK (JTA) Thanking the FBI and police for the arrest of Juan Thompson, who allegedly made eight bomb threats to Jewish institutions, the Anti-Defamation League calledthe current wave of anti-Semitic acts unprecedented.
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simmons | March 3, 2017
A man allegedly waging an intense campaign of harassment against a former lover was responsible for bomb threats against the Anti-Defamation League and some Jewish centers around the country, authorities said Friday.
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simmons | March 3, 2017
NEW YORK (FOX5NY) - A former reporter was arrested Friday in connection with a bomb threat made against the New York City headquarters of the Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish institutions in recent months. The threat against the civil rights group was made on Feb
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admin | March 3, 2017
NEW YORK - Jewish institutions in the US should think security at all times," CEO of the Anti-Defamation League Jonathan Greenblatt told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, addressing the recent wave of antisemitic incidents in the United States. Since the beginning of the year, over 100 bomb threats have been called in to Jewish institutions including community centers, schools as well as two of ADLs offices across some 30 states. In addition, two Jewish cemeteries were vandalized in the past week in St
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simmons | March 3, 2017
A prominent Jewish group is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the vandal or vandals who desecrated a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia on Sunday. We are horrified by the desecration at Mount Carmel Cemetery, the Anti-Defamation Leagues Philadelphia regional director Nancy K. Baron-Baer said in a statement Monday.
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admin | March 3, 2017
ATLANTA (AP) Amid a surge of bomb threats and vandalism at Jewish institutions nationwide, members of Atlantas Jewish community have felt a familiar wave of apprehension about what may come next. Because all of that, and worse, has happened in the city before
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simmons | March 3, 2017
Amid a surge of bomb threats and vandalism at Jewish institutions nationwide, members of Atlanta's Jewish community have felt a familiar wave of apprehension about what may come next. Because all of that, and worse, has happened in the city before. Six decades ago, during the turmoil of the civil rights era, 50 sticks of dynamite blasted a ragged hole in Atlanta's largest synagogue.
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admin | March 3, 2017
This month on Brave Little State, the history of Vermonts whiteness both racial and cultural and stories from people of color about what its like to live here. The question that kicked off our inquiry came from Eva Gumprecht, of Adamant. Eva grew up in New York City
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simmons | March 3, 2017
New York, NY(ENEWSPF)March 2, 2017 The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has produced an online resource to help parents, families and educators discuss the recent wave of bomb threats and evacuations affecting Jewish Community Centers and day schools with young children and teens. The ADL resource, Five tips for talking with children about bomb threats at Jewish community centers provides educators, caregivers and family members with tools to help children understand the incidents and to have an open conversation about bias and prejudice that puts the incidents into perspective.
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